Gardening

New Year New Us – Healthy Minds Winter Taster Fayre – January 27th

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Healthy Minds Calderdale are excited to invite you in their open day, where they want to introduce you to all their amazing services!

Come chat with our volunteers and staff about what our NEW Warm Space Drop Ins, Volunteer-Led groups and Befriending Service can offer you or the people you work with.Enjoy some warming food and drink and take part in yoga, mindfulness, allotment and arts & crafts taster sessions.

You can also learn about our other fabulous projects, like:

  • Safespace – One-to-one support for anyone in distress (Ages 16+)
  • Link – Intensive support for people ‘stuck’ in a crisis loop
  • & Welfare Rights

Drop in anytime from 10am – 1pm on Friday, 27 January.

Yoga sessions will start at 10:30am and 11:30am; Welfare Rights service information talk at 12:30pm.

The event will be held at our main office: 1 King Street, Halifax, HX1 1SR

This is a unique opportunity for professionals to gain first-hand insight into our holistic mental health provision, services and activities so that you understand what patients and service users experience when referred to Healthy Minds. 

In particular, you can learn about:

  • Our new, volunteer-led Peer Support programme

  • Warm space drop-ins

  • Like Minds befriending service

  • Safespace – One-to-one support for anyone in distress (Ages 16+)

  • Link – Intensive support for people ‘stuck’ in a crisis loop

  • Welfare Rights

  • & more!

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VSI Alliance news : Local business offering voluntary help this summer

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VSI Alliance wish to share that a local business has approached them and are interested in offering some time over the summer to support  a local charity or not for profit group.

The company wishes to help with any aspect of manual work needed, from gardening to decorating or another project if you have one in mind, ideally over the weekends in the summer.

They could prefer to donate this time to an organisation based or operating in Sowerby Bridge or the Upper Valley area.

If you would like to know more, please email Charlie at charlie.johnston@vsialliance.org.uk

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Royal Horticultural Society Community Wellbeing Grant

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Is your organisation looking for funding to support a wellbeing project?

Gardening has been proven to positively impact our mental and physical wellbeing, providing access to the outdoors, time away from our busy lives and an opportunity to connect with others. We know how important green community spaces are and that’s why we’re pleased to launch our new RHS Community Wellbeing Grant. Supporting groups and organisations working at the heart of communities, the new funding will help deliver gardening projects with the aim of improving the wellbeing of participants.

Supporting groups and organisations at the heart of the community, our new grant will help you deliver gardening projects to improve the wellbeing of your participants. From building confidence through skills workshops, to developing an accessible outdoor space or running inter-generational planting sessions – if your idea supports wellbeing through growing, we want to hear about it!

The RHS Community Wellbeing Grant will provide successful applicants with between £5,000 and £10,000 to help their project and participants thrive. To be considered for funding, please complete an application form by 5pm on Monday 7 March.

Full Grant information and Application details

We’re particularly interested in receiving applications from organisations whose projects:

  • Are user-led and respond to the needs of the people who will benefit
  • Increase access for people who are usually under-represented in gardening
  • Are run by and/or for communities living in areas of high socio-economic deprivation

Get in touch with us

If you’ve got questions about the RHS Community Wellbeing Grant, send us an email to speak to a member of our team.

 

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It’s National Gardening Week, 26 April – 2 May

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Be at one with nature and get yourself some green fingers.  Over the last year, we’ve come to rely on our gardens and green spaces more than ever.  Many of us have rediscovered the importance of connecting with nature for our mental and physical wellbeing and for National Gardening Week in 2021, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) are celebrating the feel-good power of plants and gardens, highlighting the scientific links between gardening and wellbeing and sharing easy tips.

For lots more tips, advice and to find out how gardening activities can boost your personal wellbeing, visit the RHS website.

How to garden without a garden in North Halifax
If you don’t have a garden but would still like to cultivate those green fingers, the Gardeners World website has 10 tips on how to garden without a garden. You can also sign up to the Gardeners World email bulletin for a daily dose of gardening inspiration. The Paddock in Ovenden is a community garden, get in touch with Joan and Lynne and get growing with them, or just go along and have a chat.
There are self-managed and council owned allotments or options to grow on council land. The Todmorden’s Incredible Edible and RHS community garden sites have lots of hints and inspiration and explains the benefits of community gardening for both people and places. If you’re a Together Housing resident you can even win prizes in their Garden Competition.

Grow your own veg
There’s something magical about growing your own vegetables; it’s rewarding, healthy and fun and it’s also cheap, good quality and there’s zero food miles.  Why not have a go and see what you can produce this year either in your garden, in hanging baskets or on your windowsill.  Have a look at this beginners guide to get you started.

 

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FREE Half Term Events at Kershaw’s Garden Centre

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Kershaws Garden Centre are running lots of free growing activities alongside the crafts during National Gardening Week

  • National Childrens Gardening Week LogoSaturday 28 to Monday 30 May – 10am to 4pm
    Drop in to plant Sunflowers & Runner Beans.
  • Tuesday 31 May – 10am-12pm
    Superheroes
  • Wednesday 1 June – 10am to 12pm
    Space Crafts
  • Thursday 2 June – 10am to 12pm
    Dinosaurs and Butterflies
  • Friday 3 June – 10am to 12pm
    Totem Poles
  • Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 June – 10am to 4pm
    Drop in to plant some Nasturtiums and Pumpkins

For further details call Kershaws Garden Centre, Halifax Road, Brighouse on 01484 713435, visit www.kershawgardencentre.co.uk or find Kershaws on Facebook.

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