Our short term aim was to establish the pilot project at Auchincruive to find out whether Gardening Leave could play a part in helping to improve the lives of veterans.
Thanks to the Pears Foundation, Professor Atkinson’s research has provided evidence of this. In our first year of operation, 125 veterans received 703 half day sessions of Horticultural Therapy and by the end of our 4th year wwe had provided 5378 half day sessions, so we must be doing something right!
Our long-term Aims are:
- To provide Horticultural Therapy for serving personnel and veterans in walled gardens throughout the country, using the Gardening Leave model which we have created at the pilot project in Ayrshire.
- Using the friends of GL to educate the public about what we do and how it can help.
