Gardening charity, Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is working with East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT), The Wellbeing Team and Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity to create a wellbeing garden for staff in Colchester Hospital.
RHS has already made a staff wellbeing garden for staff at Lewisham hospital – watch this video to find out more.
The Colchester Hospital Wellbeing Garden is being designed by Adam Frost, a Chelsea Flower Show award winning gardener and BBC Gardeners World Presenter. He will be presenting the design back to the hospital in late Spring, building we hope will start in early autumn.
View the design HERE.
To watch a video Adam has put together explaining how the garden will look, click here.
We are pleased to announce planning permission has been granted for the wellbeing garden at Colchester Hospital and work will begin in 2024.
Meanwhile, we have been running staff engagement workshops with gardening and plants at their heart – to show how plants and being close to nature can enrich our lives and improve our wellbeing. If you have an idea for staff engagement on a gardening - nature inspired themes around the hospital please get in touch.
Find out all you need to know and what workshops are happening below.
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