Workshops and Roadshows

• Did you once enjoy gardening but have lost your sight and your confidence?
• Do you have sight problems and are interested in learning some new gardening techniques?

Then you might like to come to one of Thrive’s practical workshops. The gardening activities usually include: seed-sowing, potting on, planting up a container and a chance to try tools that other blind and partially sighted gardeners find useful. The final programme depends on people’s interests, and we often end the session with a ‘Gardeners’ Question Time’.

The only costs to participants is a nominal fee of £5 to cover materials and includes trial membership of the National Blind Gardeners’ Club and a copy of Thrive’s quarterly Come Gardening magazine, which is available in large print, audio cassette and CD, on disc, Braille, and by email.

For more information, to find out if there is a workshop planned near you, or to arrange a workshop for your gardening group or club, contact our Information Service or call us on 0118 988 5688. Alternatively you can write to us: Thrive, The Geoffrey Udall Centre, Beech Hill, Reading RG7 2AT

Thrive’s roadshows and workshops are made possible through funding from the Big Lottery Fund and the generosity of the Sylvia Adams Trust