Projects
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Collaborating With Springhill Hospice
We are collaborating with The Wellbeing and Supportive Care team at Springhill Hospice to facilitate social and therapeutic horticulture sessions for hospice patients (from any service). There will be 6 sessions from April until September. 💚 The sessions will run on a Monday from 1pm to 2pm on the following dates: 28th April 2025 12th…
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Autumn at The Willows
Britain in Bloom Success Its feels like a long time since June when the gardens at The Willows Dementia Cafe were being judged for the RHS North West in Bloom It’s Your Neighbourhood Award. All the hard work of our volunteers, staff at The Willows and our whole team has certainly paid off, with a…
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St Cuthberts
We are delighted to be involved in this 6 week project at St Cuthbert’s school. We are working inside in the bad weather and just love working in The Dome. It feels like Rochdale’s version of the Eden Project. The school and its pupils have some big ideas to develop their green spaces and we…
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Just Up Our Alley
You may wonder what we have been up to over the last few weeks, well all can be revealed We have been supporting an amazing group of residents in Heywood who have taken on a big challenge, to create an award-winning alley garden. Check out these pictures. We have met with the residents and our…
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Summer HAF 2023
What a great summer we have had (despite the rain). We have delivered sessions at Sandbrook Park School, Holy Family School, Hopwood Hall College and Turf Hill Community Centre. Over three weeks this August, we delivered 13 sessions, provided healthy meals for 188 children and delivered activities to 210 children. The children who attended had…
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Wildflower Meadow
June 23 We have been very busy at The Willows Dementia Hub putting the finishing touches to the gardens. Our lovely volunteers pulled out all the stops to make sure that everything was at its best, ahead of the Rochdale In Bloom judges visit. The garden is very diverse and includes floral displays, food growing…
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Buzzy Bees
We have been buzzy for the past few weekends, attending a bee keeping course. These creatures are fascinating and of course, they provide us with beautiful honey, watch this space for some tips on how to help our bees to survive.
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Easter Eggstravaganza
We had loads of fun over the Easter Half Term Holidays, working with Your Trust, we delivered training to their staff. The training gave the staff the skills and knowledge they needed to deliver the food and growing sessions to the children who attended the scheme during the Easter holidays. A combination of artistic and…
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Weaving our way through Sholver
This project has been funded by the Ideas Fund. It involved Salford University who conducted a research project based on the wellbeing outcomes for participants. The group tried their hand at a wide range of nature based activities in this project that they co-designed. The last few sessions have involved growing, harvesting, stripping and weaving…
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Going Wild with Willow
Keep your eyes on this spot in Sholver, we have plans to create a willow garden, so the community centre can enjoy more sessions with the fabulous JO from https://www.creativewithnature.co.uk