Send a postcard to your GP Have you personally benefitted from social prescribing? Or do you simply believe in the power of nature to boost your mood? Send a free postcard to your GP today so they know nature helps people! There are 4 postcards you can choose from. Once you have chosen your favouriteContinue reading “Spread the word to your Doctor”
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RHS Wellbeing Gardens – Lewisham Wellbeing Garden
The RHS is building a national wellbeing gardens network “Our vision is to create a UK-wide network of Community Wellbeing Gardens across the country. This will be a green web of welcoming, safe, neutral, accessible and inclusive spaces – social hubs where plants, skills, ideas, kindness and support are shared. Our RHS Wellbeing Gardens initiative isContinue reading “RHS Wellbeing Gardens – Lewisham Wellbeing Garden”
How we have used NHS Monies to pay for Garden Therapy in Tonbridge
Since I spoke at the Propagating Green Therapies Conference in October about, amongst other things, how we have employed Garden Therapy Workers in Tonbridge, I’ve been contacted several times about how this works. So, to help others who may want to follow this model I thought it would be helpful to create a summary documentContinue reading “How we have used NHS Monies to pay for Garden Therapy in Tonbridge”
Propagating Green Therapies – Recordings now online
Recordings of the event are now available to watch on the Garden Masterclass website: https://www.gardenmasterclass.org/green-therapies The whole day is available to catch up on online for £30. This fee is to cover the cost of the post-production editing, and any surplus will be gifted to the Transforming Tuppenny appeal.
Propagating Green Therapies in the UK – Joining the Dots
Monday at Tuppenny Barn – a very special day of connection and learning, both in person and online. Extraordinary speakers and wonderful delegates. All together helping each other navigate the pathway towards the universal provision of Nature-based Therapies. Within this wonderful healing and growing space; a day suffused with the Tuppenny ethos of sustainability, humility,Continue reading “Propagating Green Therapies in the UK – Joining the Dots”
Propagating Green Therapies in the UK – Joining The Dots
A one day Conference looking at making Green Therapies available to all Click here for booking
SAVE THE DATE!
Propagating Green Therapies in the UK – Joining the Dots A one-day conference on making green therapies available to all To be held at Tuppenny Barn, near Chichester PO10 8EZ Monday 9th October 2023 9.30am – 5 pm A joint venture from Gardening4Health, Garden Masterclass, and Tuppenny Barn Booking details and Programme to follow
Garden Masterclass
I’m delighted to have been asked to join Annie Guilfoyle and Noel Kingsbury for their Thursday evening chat this evening – 6pm https://www.gardenmasterclass.org/diary “This week we talk to Richard Claxton a General (medical) Practitioner who does social prescribing and campaigns for gardening as therapy. He has created an NHS Garden Therapy project in Tonbridge andContinue reading “Garden Masterclass”
Tuppenny Barn
The very model of a modern Therapy Garden Tuppenny barn, in Southbourne – near Chichester, is deeply rooted in education, organic horticulture and sustainability. In the last four years it has branched in a big way into therapeutic horticulture. Groups visit to work with Social and Horticultural Therapists, connecting with nature in a safe andContinue reading “Tuppenny Barn”
A Therapy Garden for Tonbridge
Indulge me for a moment – this is a big moment for me! I’m now happy to announce that this week we are taking our first “Gardeners” onto a programme for Gardening Therapy in our new NHS Project in Tonbridge. Green therapies on the NHS as a core part of Community Primary care. Hoping toContinue reading “A Therapy Garden for Tonbridge”