Thriving volunteers
Volunteer gardeners are needed at Thrive centres in London, Birmingham, and Berkshire. Thrive is the UK’s leading charity that uses gardening to help people with disabilities and ill health. It offers social and therapeutic horticulture, and also runs courses such as Understanding Disability In Garden Design. There are volunteer taster sessions at Battersea, London, on 20 September and 17 November; at Kings Heath Park, Birmingham, on the second Monday of each month and at Beech Hill, near Reading, on 1 September, 2 October, 1 November and 4 December. Thrive also has details of more than 700 garden projects throughout the UK that need volunteer help. To get involved or find out how Thrive can help you, call 0118 988 5688 or visit thrive.org.uk