Overview
At Thrive, we are passionate about the health benefits that gardening, horticulture and spending time in nature can bring.
We are a leading UK charity with over 45 years' experience of an approach called Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH). We want to help people with varying needs to access therapeutic gardening programmes and use gardening as part of personal health and wellbeing management.
We do this by:
Supporting our client gardeners through programmes at our 3 regional centres in Reading, Birmingham and London
Delivering training courses so people can go on to practice Social and Therapeutic Horticulture and other forms of Green Care
Sharing our knowledge freely to reach as many people as possible through the ‘Get Gardening' section of our website and our Gardening Club newsletters
You can also contact us to find out about Social and Therapeutic Horticultural Projects (STH) near you.
Who we help
We support and work with a wide range of people: people who have a physical or learning disability; people with mental health support needs; people who may have sensory loss or autism; people with age-related conditions such as dementia, heart problems, diabetes or stroke survivors and also young people who have social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.
Find out more about who we help and meet some of our client gardeners.