Marlpit Community Garden

Mr Bees Family Centre

Newark Orchard School

Orchard Park

Over the Tracks

Purple House Women’s Centre

Rufford Avenue Allotment

Shawfields Trust

VIY will be creating a welcoming outdoor space for the local community and residents of the local estate to use at Shawfield Estate to improve their quality of life.

We will build a bike shed for secure storage, a seating pod, picnic benches, and planters all to be painted in colourful Cuprinol products.

Impact

Bromsgrove District Housing Trust would like this space to be utalsied to its full benefit by the estate community which has previously had a high amount of anti-social behavior.

Local families be able to use the space for outdoor events it will provide somewhere safe to lock away their bikes.

Project Contact: Jordan Clarke, email jordan@teamviy.com

Social Action Hub

The Social Action Hub‘s vision is to unite people by organising social action projects and delivering services that make a difference to the local community.

They provide various innovative projects and services to vulnerable adults, families, and children. Supporting the vulnerable through the relief of poverty and support for mental health and wellbeing

They empower communities to become more cohesive, resilient, and sustainable.

Impact

VIY will help, by creating a new usable safe space to run a Forest School, providing young people the opportunity to learn about nature and become more creative through holiday programmes.

The work will open up further opportunities to run classes on the premises enabling them to increase their service users and reduce costs. It will also give the venue some much-needed storage.

Project Contact: Katie Booth, email katie@teamviy.com

St Ebbas Hospital – wellbeing garden

We worked in partnership with Surrey County Council to transform a disused pavilion into a therapy garden, as part of the Green Social Prescribing Programme, a national programme supporting people to engage in nature-based interventions and activities to improve their mental and physical health. This can involve what are known as ‘green’, such as our project below, and ‘blue’ activities, like other VIY projects creating a Paddle Club in Leicestershire and projects through our partnership with Sport Birmingham.

The project:

We converted a disused pavilion into a therapy garden, including creating seating, tables planters and a pergola, to be used by patients being treated through St Ebbas Hospital in Epsom, to allow people supported through their mental health services to have treatment or take some time outside in this space – a chance to breathe, feel and reflect in a natural setting. With thanks to materials supplied from Travis Perkins and a splash of Dulux Cuprinol to touch up the woodwork.

The young people: 14 local young people, including from the Amber Foundation and users of the local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHs), referred by the Surrey & Border Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, who will directly benefit from this space

The impact:

• 10 Entry Level 3 City & Guilds accreditations earned by the young people in Carpentry and Health & Safety
• A peaceful space which has now been beautifully planted up the users of the CAMHs service and other community groups
• A standout example of what ‘good’ looks like for green social prescribing projects and partnerships look like at a national level, for other areas to replicate
• Key example to be noted in a toolkit by Natural England to encourage other such projects for disengaged local young people and to support those with poor mental health

See what this project meant to a young lad with OCD and autism

See what this project meant to Jack and his parents

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