The gardening for health charity

We use gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health, or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable.

Coronavirus update

All Thrive regional centres have closed. Our online training and information service are still available and national office staff are working remotely. We continue to help people use gardening for health and wellbeing and we still need your support

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How we help

We have over 40 years’ experience of an approach called social and therapeutic horticulture (STH), where trained horticultural therapists work with plants and people to improve an individual’s physical and psychological health, communication and thinking skills.

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Tony N watering garden with vol Charlie Garner 2019

Courses and training

We offer a variety of training and education opportunities - ranging from introductory workshops to extended learning. Our programme is delivered from a number of venues across England - Reading, London, Bristol and Birmingham, as well as online.

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Gardening advice

We have practical information to make garden jobs easier, advice on taking care, useful hints and tips and details of tools and equipment that can aid you.

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Please make a donation today so we can use gardening to change lives

Monthly Single

£5 £10 £20

£5 could buy 1kg of seed potatoes to go towards a client’s harvest Eddie smiling with potato Charlie Garner 2019

£10 could buy an easy grip hand trowel, enabling stroke survivors or those who struggle with low muscle tone, to partake in activities Reading network 4

£20 could buy multifunction secateurs for one gardener Angela secateurs

£25 £60 £75

£25 could buy a watering lance, enabling people with motor skills issues or lack of physical strength, to partake in the task of watering plants Tony N watering garden with vol Charlie Garner 2019

£60 can pay for a therapeutic gardening session at Thrive Lu and client 2

£75 could maintain one client plot for a year. A client plot inspires motivation, nurtures mental wellbeing and promotes self-esteem, as well as being a place to call their “own”. Emma M painting plot with vol Charlie Garner 2019

Emma M painting plot with vol Charlie Garner 2019

Other amount

Join the Gardening Club

We've created a new free resource to help people keep well at home - delivered straight to your inbox, the Gardening Club will offer tips to get the most out of your own garden.