Horatio’s Garden creates and cares for beautiful accessible gardens in NHS spinal injury centres.
The National Garden Scheme has been supporting Horatio’s Garden since 2015 and has donated a total of £330,000 (£75,000 in 2020) to help develop incredible sanctuaries in all 11 spinal injury centres across the UK.
Our commitment to Horatio’s Garden
With support from the National Garden Scheme, two more gardens are now open to patients in Buckinghamshire and Shropshire. Building work has been completed on a beautiful garden for patients at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, which has been designed by Joe Swift and opened in September 2018. The National Garden Scheme has also helped fund a further development at the Midland Centre for Spinal Injury in Oswestry, which opened in Autumn 2019 and has committed funding to ensure the completion of all eleven gardens at NHS spinal injury centres across the country.
Maggie’s offer the best possible support free to anyone with cancer and their families who walk through their doors.
For each centre, architects and interior and landscape designers work closely together to ensure a strong connection between the outside and inside space.
In 2020 the National Garden Scheme made a donation of £100,000 towards Maggie’s gardens.
Creating welcoming spaces
Having already broken ground at the Maggie’s centre in Southampton the charity was determined to push forward with the project in 2020 despite knowing they would be faced with inevitable delays during the worst of lockdown. This meant that the National Garden Scheme donation to help build the centre’s garden was a top priority.
Maggie’s Southampton aimed to open for visitors in November, with the garden still requiring some finishing touches at that time. Once complete Maggie’s expects to support 20,000 visits a year from people needing tailored emotional, practical and social support in the Southampton area. The schematic shows how the finished garden will look.
One of our previous Gardens and Health beneficiaries, Treloar’s School and College, has been busy putting their 2019 donation from us to good use. Read more about how the money we donated is helping them develop a Horticulture & Outdoor Learning Centre.
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