Syngenta staff raise over £5,500 for Thrive's Trunkwell Garden Project

Staff at Syngenta Jealott’s Hill Recreation Club in Bracknell have raised over £5,500 to build a rehabilitation garden at local charity Thrive’s Trunkwell Garden Project near Reading. The Trunkwell Garden Project helps over 100 disabled people, many of whom are from the Bracknell area.

The Jealott’s Hill Recreation Club serves the one thousand staff of the international agricultural research centre. Jealott’s Hill is Europe’s largest agricultural research station where scientists work on increasing crop yields around the globe. The innovative research carried out here has resulted in the invention of world-leading products which help farmers protect their crops from weeds, insect pests and plant diseases.

Many of the research staff at Syngenta Jealott’s Hill took part in fundraisers, including a pan cake tossing, sun flower growing, guess "The Stig" to celebrate the F1 Brawn GB car being at the site.

Mina Jobanputra of Jealotts Recreation Club, Syngenta said "We were delighted to help Thrive build this garden which will bring joy to and will help many people while recovering from strokes or accidents.

Stephen Barry from Thrive says "We are delighted that Syngenta have raised this money for one of our 5 new demonstration gardens called the Garden Gallery. These gardens show those with particular disabilities how they can design their own gardens to help make gardening easier for them at home. They will also maintain these gardens as part of their gardening therapy programme at the Trunkwell Garden Project."

If you would like to fundraise for Thrive, sponsor one of the gardens or would like further information call us on 0118 988 5688.