The need for projects like ours is now greater than ever. We need to continue to improve the services we offer to our volunteers with severe and enduring mental illness, and the quality of the plants we grow. Fundraising will always remain a priority, as a non-profit making organisation, we run at a trading loss

The nursery will be celebrating its twentieth birthday on 15th April 2010, and has some exciting plans for the next twenty years (link). For its first twenty years it has been based in donated, second-hand portacabins, which are now decrepit, leaking and crumbling and will not be usable for much longer. Our greatest wish is to be able to provide all our workers with a comfortable, practical and welcoming place to work in all weathers.

Sustainable building replacement programme
We are working with the Dorset Centre for Rural Skills planning replacements for the current structures with low-cost, low-energy, low impact buildings, built from locally sourced and benign materials, to fulfil our needs in the most appropriate way possible. We believe these living buildings would promote mental well-being and recovery for those who use them, through the healing value of the natural world.

We hope to be able to launch the major fund-raising project for this five-year building programme, on our twentieth birthday, and to have plans and drawings available showing our ideas.

To complete this great long-term project we need your help. Even the smallest gift can make a real difference to a project like this.