Help for Heroes has four Recovery Centres across the UK in Wiltshire, Plymouth, Catterick and Colchester. Each Centre has its own garden and Barrus has donated WOLF-Garten garden tools to the ‘Hero Garden’ at Tedworth House.
Offering one-off workshops, activities in the Rolling Recovery Programme, a weekly Gardening Club and the opportunity to complete the City and Guild Level 2 in Horticulture, the Hero Garden introduces beneficiaries back into the learning environment whilst increasing mindfulness, emotional wellbeing and the opportunity to make friends.
Giles Woodhouse, Head of Recovery South at Help for Heroes said, “We are extremely grateful for the donation of gardening tools from Barrus. These tools have allowed many wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans take up a new hobby and help them to rebuild their lives post injury or illness.”
The weekly Gardening Club focusses on growing vegetables that are used in the Tedworth House kitchen or taken home by the members. The WOLF-Garten tools have proved a real asset as the telescopic handles make the vegetable patches more accessible to everyone in the group.
"The telescopic handles are great, they allow for different working heights for people with mobility problems or that can’t bend. They are useful to adjust the working range and make the area more accessible to everyone in the group, " said Lucy Thorpe, Horticultural Therapist at Help for Heroes.
