Sow and Grow with Thrive!

We are currently working with people in Theale, Woodley, Whitchurch, and will start new courses soon in Hungerford and Hartley Wintney.

Each Sow and Grow session lasts two hours a week and will be based around table top gardening activities using Thrive's adapted tools and techniques, showing how gardening can be made easier.

The course is particularly beneficial to people with restricted mobility or a disability. All materials, tools and refreshments are provided by Thrive. The Sow and Grow project has been funded by the Big Lottery through their Reaching Communities programme

Other Sow and Grow projects are planned in Hartley Wintney and Crowthorne, so if you live nearby and would be interested, or know someone who would, please contact Paul Scott on 0118 988 5688.

Thrive also runs the Growing 4 Life project which uses gardening to help older people beat the blues, regain confidence, feel better physically and mentally and make new friends.

We want to help people create community gardening and horticultural therapy projects in the areas where they live, which will improve their mental and physical health, reduce isolation and bring people together. 

This kind of work has hit the headlines recently as the NHS backed a trial scheme at Mayfield Garden Nursery. But at Thrive we already know that gardening really does help people with all kinds of disabilities. We do welcome this trial scheme very pleased to see that the NHS backing it. 

Growing 4 Life, funded by the Big Lottery and Ecominds, already runs at Dinton Pastures in Hurst, The Vyne National Trust property near Basinstoke, Spencer's Wood and West End, near Eastleigh.

We have new Growing 4 Life projects planned in Wokingham, Church Crookham near Fleet, Henley, Whitchurch, Wallingford and Southampton. 

If you'd like to know more about Growing 4 Life, please contact Carl Harney on 0118 988 5688.