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Professor Atkinson’s research into the benefits of Gardening Leave to our client group, veterans with combat-related mental health troubles, was presented at Uncharted Territory: The mental well-being of Scotland’s veterans, a conference held in Edinburgh on 27th May 2009
(www.samh.org.uk).

The Powerpoint presentation is now on the website and you can download it by clicking here If you would like to receive a copy of the Executive Summary which will give you more detail, please e-mail me on info@gardeningleave.org and I will post you a copy.

Any comments or feedback you have would be much appreciated!

As ever,

Anna BC.

Link to Presentation - click here>>

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Iain Whiteley, Gardening Leave's Treasurer is about to embark on another fundraising adventure, this time to the North Pole!   As he has generously agreed to donate some of the money he raises to Gardening Leave, I think he deserves our support.   Go to www.justgiving.com/snowwhiteley and tell him what a good egg he is to mind about veterans and  to walk the walk for them.

 

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Gardening Leave is a charity, founded by Anna Baker Cresswell in accordance with plans by Combat Stress (Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society) to develop the scope of therapeutic activity for ex-Servicemen and women with PTSD and other mental health troubles.

Gardening Leave will oversee horticultural therapy projects for ex-Servicemen and women growing fruit and vegetables in walled gardens which will provide a peaceful, unpressurised environment where veterans can participate as much or as little as they choose in the life cycle of the kitchen garden.

How We are Funded

Gardening Leave is funded entirely through charitable donations.  If you would like to make a contribution to ensure this project to improve the lives of this country’s ex-Servicemen and women can continue to innovate and expand to reach others in this ever increasing community, please don’t hesitate to contact any of the trustees whose details are on the Contact page.

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PO Box 95,
Alnwick,
Northumberland.
NE66 9AU

Gardening Leave Limited

Registered in England:
Victoria House
Bondgate Within Alnwick
Northumberland NE66 1TA

Registered Company number: 6091057
Charity registered number: 1119786
Charity registered in Scotland: SCO 038 563