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For 25 years, the Greenfingers Charity has been creating gardens for childrens’ hospices. For young people with life limiting conditions, and indeed for their families and carers, these gardens are havens of peace and joy.
The team here at Arbour Landscape Solutions are committed to helping Greenfingers achieve their Silver Anniversary target of raising £2,000,025 towards maintaining existing hospice gardens as well as designing and building many more. Which is why, a proportion of the sales revenue from selected products is being donated to the charity to help them with their work.
As a landscape professional, you have the power to help us make a tangible difference to the quality of life of children coping with life limiting conditions, simply by choosing your landscaping materials wisely. Keep reading to discover more.
In 1999, Richard Jackson, who has had a long and illustrious career in horticulture, came to understand that whilst children’s hospices were doing an incredible job of enriching the lives of their young patients, their lack of funding meant that they were unable to provide the kind of outdoor spaces that would benefit the children, their families and their carers.
Spurred into action by this woeful oversight, Richard founded the Greenfingers Charity. He gathered support from industry stalwarts to raise awareness and generate funds to begin building beautiful, multifunctional gardens. The first Greenfingers garden was for Demelza House Children’s Hospice in Sittingbourne, Kent. Since then, 70 gardens have been completed, three are in progress and there are still many more to build.
What Do Hospice Gardens Offer Their Visitors?
Every Greenfingers garden is distinctively different and reflects the needs and the characters of the people who use it. However, all of them have the same functionality - to provide a space which offers physical, emotional, social and spiritual support to youngsters with life limiting conditions.
It’s no secret that being out of doors and surrounded by nature boosts everybody’s wellbeing. A hospice garden - particularly a hospice that supports children and their families - is a place to make memories, to escape from stress, to experience new things and, yes, to play.
A hospice garden needs to be accessible from a wheelchair - or even a hospital bed. It needs space for contemplation and plenty of opportunities for sensory stimulation. It needs to invoke a sense of calm, promote wellbeing and provide parents and staff with a retreat from stress. A hospice garden should, all at the same time, be a relaxed setting for family interaction, socialising and entertainment. It's quite a design challenge!
Contrary to what you might think, not all children will be on hospice for end of life care. Yes, they may have life limiting conditions that mean they are unlikely to reach adulthood. But that doesn’t mean that death is imminent. The hospice ethos is to allow these youngsters to live life to their full potential and emphasis is on quality of life rather than quantity. Whilst a garden cannot provide a cure for their condition, it can certainly add to a patient’s quality of life. And that’s so important.
Supporting Greenfingers Through Landscaping Choices
It is estimated that by 2030, there will be almost 14.5 million under 18’s living in the UK and as many as one percent of those youngsters will be affected by life limiting conditions. So the need for children’s hospices will sadly not go away.
Greenfingers’ gardens have the potential to enrich all of those lives and to support the people who love and care for them through very difficult times. Will you help to raise funds for Greenfingers Charity by choosing Greenfingers products from Arbour Landscape Solutions?
Simply type ‘Greenfingers’ into the search box on our home page to view the range of products that trigger donations to the charity.
Alternatively, look out for the green hand logo as you browse our website.
Don’t forget too, that you can donate directly to Greenfingers via their website, or even better, you could organise your own fundraiser . If you let Arbour Landscape Solutions know what you're doing, we'll happily support you with lots of publicity.
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