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Therapeutic Gardening - Autumn 2025

 Autumn is harvesting time in the garden and 2025 has been a notably abundant year, with bumper cops of most fruit and veg. Our veg box customers have benefited from this abundance and we continue to sell veg to the Angel Inn in Corbridge to help raise funds for the project, as well as offering veg to members of the garden group to take home with them.

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We have really enjoyed working as a team to make some delicious lunches to share using some of our own produce. Garden frittata and apple crumble have both gone down a storm with everyone. All that fresh air seems to give us a hearty appetite! We have also been busy preserving and making chutney using home-grown apples, onions and turnips to enjoy through the winter months ahead

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Summer Barbecues 2025

Earlier in the year, we celebrated the arrival of summer and the untypically hot Northumberland weather with a couple of shared barbecues. These proved very popular with everyone and some garden group members displayed great flair in preparing delicious salads using produce from the garden and manning the barbeque.  This was a great way to reward ourselves for some of the hard work we put into maintaining the garden and a good opportunity to socialise and share a laugh.

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Nature-based Arts and Crafts 2025

When we fancied an alternative to gardening we got 'crafty', as we often do, making a wonderful variety of unusual art creations using materials from the garden and the surrounding countryside. This made a gentle, relaxing and companionable activity for anyone feeling creatively inspired and has kept our building bright and interesting. Whoever knew that you can preserve dandelion seed heads with hairspray!

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Our wonderful Sanctuary building is still available for hire by third parties as an alternative workshop space or away day venue. The building has a small kitchen, wood burner and the poshest compost loo you have ever come across! It's simple, cosy and the setting is truly idyllic. Cost £50/half day or £100/full day. All proceeds go towards maintaining the building to support our gardening therapy work. For more information on hiring the building or to check dates, do contact us

Sanctuary Hire

 

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Celebrating our new polytunnel 

Thanks to generous funding from the Truemark Trust, we have realised a long-held dream to install a really large polytunnel (5.5M x 12M) in the Peace Garden.  This will provide us with an all-year-round indoor growing space that can be used for a wide range of activities with the whole gardening team. We are enjoying exploring ideas of what we might like like to cultivate in this wonderful new growing space next year.

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We also received funding for an extra tall raised bed suitable for anyone with mobility issues or in a wheelchair. We are delighted that this will help to support us in being as inclusive as possible in what we offer.

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We now have a JustGiving donations page, which makes it easy to support the work that we do with people living with mental health and learning difficulties, some of whom may be unable to work and may not be eligible for statutory funding to cover their attendance at gardening therapy sessions. Every little makes a difference and we are very grateful for every contribution we receive.

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To make a donation now, please click here 

Funding update

As a registered charity, Let's Get Growing is committed to keeping its therapeutic horticulture service available to all, regardless of financial circumstances. The majority of participants attending our gardening therapy days are able to access a personal budget or direct payment. Those who are not supported through the NHS can apply to our bursary fund, as we have a clear policy of welcoming all, irrespective of personal means. The nature of the beneficiary groups with whom we work means that some charitable funding is therefore needed to support our work. We would like to express our sincere thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund, the Truemark Trust, the Shears Foundation. the Healey Community Environment Fund  and the Community Foundation for generously supporting us in 2025.

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