Horticultural Therapy

 

 

Helmsley Walled Garden is a Registered Charity dedicated to providing Horticultural Therapy, support and training opportunities for those with learning, physical and emotional difficulties and also for people with more temporary needs, like bereavement or recovery from trauma.It is a safe environment, on level ground, making it suitable for wheelchair users. We already cater for people with a wide variety of conditions and liaise with appropriate professionals.Offered as an alternative therapy, the programme takes people ‘back to basics’ to give a connection to the earth that modern day living has ignored. People can work alone or in groups and most skills/activities can be broken down to accommodate different difficulties and conditions.

 

 

We are offering a range of workshops covering basic horticultural skills which include:

These skills are covered as an integrated part of the garden’s needs and requirements and not conducted in isolation.

 

Horticultural therapy has been proven in research by Thrive to have many health benefits including:

• Physical exercise – a chance to work in the open air
• Learning new skills – for life and work opportunities
• Meeting new people and working within a team
• Increased independence and self esteem

Two sessions per day will run weekly on

Wednesdays and Thursdays

Timings are flexible and negotiable

 
 

The garden also provides 1:1 counselling, where the need is deemed more appropriate or preferred. Heather Thomas has a BSC in Anthropology, a City & Guilds certificate in gardening and a certificate in counselling.

 

Horticultural Therapist— Fiona Horsley

Fiona Horsley is our Horticultural Therapist. She spent 27 years in full time teaching, spending much of that time with special needs children. Leaving full-time teaching in 2003, she went on to gain certificates in Social and Therapeutic Horticulture and City and Guilds in Gardening at Askham Bryan College. She is also a member of the Institute for Learning. She started volunteering at HWG in 2005 and began working there 2 years ago, specifically with special needs students from Welburn Hall School. She also conducts horticultural workshops with school children. Our 2010 Horticultural Therapy project was highly successful and resulted in an assessment of ‘outstanding’ by the North Yorkshire learning Consortium quality assurance.

 

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