Our Purpose
To bring health and horticulture closer together so that many more people achieve positive outcomes through Social & Therapeutic Horticulture.
Our Vision
Gardening is actively encouraged as part of personal health and wellbeing management and Social & Therapeutic Horticulture (STH) services are available wherever you live.
Our Impact
We improve health and wellbeing, reduce isolation and
loneliness, increase a sense of occupation and enjoyment, making people's lives
more satisfying; in doing so we contribute positively to health and social care
services.
Our Values
- Excellence: We provide high-quality services for everyone we support and collaborate with.
- People Focused: Client gardeners, students, staff and volunteers are at the centre of what we do as an organisation.
- Ambitious: We believe in the power of STH, in ourselves as an organisation and are working to grow the sector and widen our impact.
- Collaborative: We understand the value of working with others, knowing we will achieve greater things together than we can on our own.
Priority outcomes
Our priority outcomes for the next 5 years are:
- STH sector is recognised as part of the health & social care landscape
- STH provides genuine positive impact
- Thrive has a sustainable operating model
GROW OUR SECTOR
Vision
STH sector is recognised as part of the health & social care landscape.
Working collaboratively at the local, regional and national levels, the STH/Green Care sector plays a clear role in connecting communities to their local green spaces, improving health outcomes and reducing health inequalities, and in delivering measurable savings for the NHS and social care sectors.
Goals
- To lead and shape the debate about how a larger and more professional STH sector can support the care systems and provide improved outcomes for people with a defined health, social care or education need
- To build a movement towards professionalising the sector
Success criteria
- STH given profile in health commissioning
- Green Social Prescribing differentiates effectively between ‘time in nature’ and ‘nature-based therapeutic programmes’ according to need
- There is cross-sector support for development and change
- Professional body for STH Practitioners is established and role of practitioner recognised
GROW OUR IMPACT
Vision
STH is recognised as providing genuine positive impact.
Thrive can make a national-scale impact on health and wellbeing through delivery of STH programmes and a digital information service, and using our knowledge and expertise to enable others to deliver STH.
Goals
- To use our delivery of STH to achieve improved outcomes for people with a defined health, social care or educational need.
- To use our knowledge and expertise to deliver gardening for health information that enables people to harness the health & wellbeing benefits of gardening in their own space and time.
- To use our knowledge and expertise to enable delivery of STH beyond our 3 centres, by training others to increase their horticultural therapy skills and supporting their ongoing professional development, and by working in partnership with national horticultural/land-based organisations
Success criteria
1 million people per year are accessing our services and seeing a positive impact on their physical or mental health by 2030.
GROW OUR ORGANISATION SUSTAINABILITY
Vision
Thrive has a sustainable operating model.
Achieved through an engaged and effective workforce, effective use of our assets (land & investments) and infrastructure (including facilities, data and digital tools), maximising revenue from our assets and ensuring that our spending is aligned with income.
Goals
- To ensure that our workforce has the required competencies and that the organisation is structured to support the effective deployment of the workforce to achieve our strategic aims
- To develop our infrastructure to effectively support current and new service delivery
- To deliver an annual surplus with which to maintain our reserves and invest in our continued development.
Success criteria
- Staff Survey metrics
- Annual income and breakeven targets met
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