Last year the garden space was not used much, in fact it was mainly used by smokers and vapers. It’s not that the garden was unusable far from it. It was slightly uninviting or flat with no personality.
But this year our gardening team along with funding from Selwood Housing, the Garden has been transformed. With vegetables and herbs, flower beds and a solar water feature, we moved the seating on to the grass and hung bunting.
And although the garden is still in its very early stages our Tuesday drop in spent most of the time sitting in the sunshine, whilst on Thursday our dedicated art session didn’t happen because everyone sat out chatting, as each member arrived they walked in grabbed a chair and took it to the garden. Ice pops (ice poles) and jubby’s where available along with a range of drinks.
The Garden has taken on a new energy with our vegetables and herbs, not just because we will share or harvest between members and community fridges. But that is not only what we have planned, we have planted several herbs and spices that will be used in a short cause on healing teas and tinctures. As well as using flowers in future art projects.
We look forward to a good harvest otherwise we will be looking for funding to pay for a Fool who would be King for a day and a lot of wood lol.
Trowbridge Service User’s Group is open and self-referral to anyone living with a mental health illness living in and around Trowbridge. We are small but are growing, even being nominated for awards.
- Group Lead nominated Community Champion Award and won https://trowbridge.gov.uk/trowbridge-mayor-presents-civic-awards-for-outstanding-contributions
- People’s Choice Award! Creative Lives Awards 2024! Vote for us here https://www.creative-lives.org/trowbridge-service-users-group
If you’re living with a mental illness in Trowbridge, why not pop in and have a chat and see whats available.
As a peer run group we are always looking for help and support whether that’s cash, plants, arts and craft supplies, food, your time and experience (including offering talks on, Advice in general (energy/ debt) Your service and what you offer, etc.) we would like to create greater links with the community and help those with mental illness feel that they can be productive members of the community imbuing them with a sense of value and purpose and responsibility for each other. Providing a support network built on trust and honesty.
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