Trunkwell Garden Project

The Thrive Trunkwell Garden Project is located in beautiful countryside in the village of Beech Hill, near Reading, Berkshire, and is set in a Victorian walled garden next to Thrive’s National Office.

Thrive therapists work with more than100 disabled people each year ranging in age from 14 to 70 years. Thrive gardeners travel to the Project from across Berkshire, North Hampshire, Surrey and South Oxfordshire. They may have learning disabilities, mental health needs, a physical disability or a sensory disability such as partial sight or deafness.

The Garden is designed to help disabled gardeners develop their skills and there are areas for growing herbs, fruit and vegetables, butterfly and woodland gardens, a glasshouse and polytunnels, a tree nursery, a large wildlife pond and a shop selling plants grown at the Project.

The Thrive Trunkwell Garden Project is approved to offer City and Guilds vocational qualifications to Level 1 and we are always delighted when Thrive gardeners move on to further study, to use their skills as a volunteer or to get a job in horticulture.

For more information on the way we can help disabled people, click on the links below or contact Sue Tabor, Garden Manager, on 0118 988 4844.

• Thrive Secret Garden – helping people with dementia and younger gardeners
• Helping young people learn new skills – Growing Options and  Increased Flexiblity
• Using gardening to help children with mental health needs
• Thrive at The Vyne – working with The National Trust