Our Nominated Charity for 2026 is Trellis – Gardening for Wellbeing
The Edinburgh Practice is supporting Trellis – Gardening for Wellbeing. They focus on therapeutic gardening, the practice of using gardening to help people take care of their health and wellbeing. Therapeutic horticulture is a practice whereby trained practitioners, using plants, gardening and nature connection, support people to help them improve their physical and psychological health and wellbeing, communication and social skills and abilities.
They support over 520 groups, and many more start-up projects, who create green sanctuaries in hospitals and care settings, school, prison, and community locations, where practitioners use gardens, gardening activities and nature connection to help an average of 27 people at each project. Through these therapeutic gardening sanctuaries, people can recover from ill health, rehabilitate, overcome adversity, and increase their skills and confidence. Together with these inspiring groups, every week, they help more than 14,000 people to improve their health and transform their lives through gardening.
Trellis runs training courses, good practice workshops and an information service, and they provide on-site help and guidance.
The practice will be organising various fund-raising events throughout the year to help raise money to support the great work that Trellis do.
Want to try a gardening activity with a group but don’t know how to?
Check out the Trellis ‘Have a Go Pack’ containing all the information you’ll need to get started:
- A quick guide to the benefits of gardening activities
- What you need to get started list
- A useful Planning & Reflection Sheet
- Plus 4 fun, step-by-step activity ideas and guidance/instruction sheets to get you started
Find out more about Trellis events happening this year.
And follow their activities and updates via:
Website: https://www.trellisscotland.org.uk/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrellisScotland
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trellis_network/
X: https://x.com/trellis_network