Harefield Healing Garden News
Here’s some of what we’ve been up to:
Plant Appeal
Please help us fill the Healing Garden with beautiful, sensory planting for all to enjoy. We would love your help in filling the Healing Garden with beautiful, sensory plants and flowers for patients, visitors, and staff to enjoy! Every £10 donation buys a 2-litre...
EXCITING NEWS!!
We are thrilled to announce that following years of research, designing, planning and fundraising, we are now in a position to start the Healing Garden build. What better time to reward the patients, their visitors and the NHS staff, who have been working 'on the...
Please support this super fundraiser, racing to raise money for the Harefield Healing Garden!
Norbert Biczo has chosen to run to raise money for the Harefield Healing Garden. Sunday 15th March 2020: Congratulations to Norbert, who completed the Victoria Park Half Marathon run today, raising £250 towards the Healing Garden. Luckily the event wasn't cancelled...
We have received a £25,000 grant towards the building of the Healing Garden!
We are delighted to have been awarded a £25,000 grant from a private trust. This grant means that we can begin stage one of the garden construction this summer; the groundworks, including the paths, the structure of the boarders and flower beds. We are busy finalising...
Kings College Hospital showed us the site for their exciting new rooftop garden project
We had the pleasure of meeting Transition Programme Manager Katy Child and Intensive care consultant Tom Best of Kings College Hospital, to take a look around their top-of-the-range new build ITU building, complete with its very own helipad and rooftop garden ...
Local business Artemis donate their tree surgery skills to the garden
We are thrilled that the local community is so willing to support the Healing Garden. Local tree surgeons Artemis Tree Services, based in nearby Rickmansworth have very generously donated their skills to the site of what will become the Harefield Healing Garden, to...
The Harefield Healing Garden appeal has officially Launched!
Thank you to everyone who came along to our launch party on Thursday evening. Special thanks to Dave Royston, Consultant Anaesthetist, for the fascinating talk on the history of Harefield Hospital and the healing effects of plants, and to James Smith and Jason Lock...
Garden News May 2019
We asked leading landscape and garden designers Bowles & Wyer to take a fresh look at the design concept in the light of input from patients, their relatives, doctors, nurses, psychologists, and other hospital staff, and responses to the questionnaire drawn up...
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Garden news
Plant Appeal
Please help us fill the Healing Garden with beautiful, sensory planting for all to enjoy. We would love your help in filling the Healing Garden with beautiful, sensory plants and flowers for patients, visitors, and staff to enjoy! Every £10 donation buys a 2-litre...
EXCITING NEWS!!
We are thrilled to announce that following years of research, designing, planning and fundraising, we are now in a position to start the Healing Garden build. What better time to reward the patients, their visitors and the NHS staff, who have been working 'on the...
Please support this super fundraiser, racing to raise money for the Harefield Healing Garden!
Norbert Biczo has chosen to run to raise money for the Harefield Healing Garden. Sunday 15th March 2020: Congratulations to Norbert, who completed the Victoria Park Half Marathon run today, raising £250 towards the Healing Garden. Luckily the event wasn't cancelled...
We have received a £25,000 grant towards the building of the Healing Garden!
We are delighted to have been awarded a £25,000 grant from a private trust. This grant means that we can begin stage one of the garden construction this summer; the groundworks, including the paths, the structure of the boarders and flower beds. We are busy finalising...
Kings College Hospital showed us the site for their exciting new rooftop garden project
We had the pleasure of meeting Transition Programme Manager Katy Child and Intensive care consultant Tom Best of Kings College Hospital, to take a look around their top-of-the-range new build ITU building, complete with its very own helipad and rooftop garden ...
Local business Artemis donate their tree surgery skills to the garden
We are thrilled that the local community is so willing to support the Healing Garden. Local tree surgeons Artemis Tree Services, based in nearby Rickmansworth have very generously donated their skills to the site of what will become the Harefield Healing Garden, to...
The Harefield Healing Garden appeal has officially Launched!
Thank you to everyone who came along to our launch party on Thursday evening. Special thanks to Dave Royston, Consultant Anaesthetist, for the fascinating talk on the history of Harefield Hospital and the healing effects of plants, and to James Smith and Jason Lock...
Garden News May 2019
We asked leading landscape and garden designers Bowles & Wyer to take a fresh look at the design concept in the light of input from patients, their relatives, doctors, nurses, psychologists, and other hospital staff, and responses to the questionnaire drawn up...
Fundraising
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Rhianna Colyer ran a Half Marathon
Rhianna Colyer ran a Half Marathon, raising £345 There have been lots of studies showing the benefits of being outdoors in hospital patients. A healing garden for patients and their families would create a space for them to recharge and be outside, and enjoy the...
Helen Skiffington’s skydive
Helen Skiffington’s skydive has raised £955 Harefield Hospital inspired me to become an occupational therapist. I was lucky enough to start my OT career here and see the great work that the hospital does day in and day out. I know how much the garden would mean to the...
David gifted his big Birthday to the Healing Garden
David gifted £320 towards the Healing Garden “Instead of buying David a present for his significant birthday this year, let's donate towards Harefield's healing garden which will be such a lovely, tranquil place for both patients and staff to enjoy” Ann Stainton...
Carmel Fitzpatrick completed a 10k fun run
Carmel Fitzpatrick completed a 10k fun run, raising £520 “This time two years ago, I had a very rare reaction to chemotherapy treatment and I was taken to Harefield Hospital intensive care unit where the wonderful doctors and nurses saved my life. I think about that...
Cassie Huckle cycled 26 miles from The Royal Brompton to Harefield Hospital
Cassie Huckle cycled her way to raising £110 “On Sunday 1st July, I will be taking part in a 26-mile bike ride from the Royal Brompton Hospital, all the way to Harefield Hospital along the Grand Union Canal, in aid of this wonderful cause. My mode of transport will...
Louise Calvert walked 26 miles from The Royal Brompton to Harefield Hospital
Louise Calvert walked her way to raising £200 “What Harefield and The Royal Brompton Hospitals do is extremely important. Being able to provide the right care and treatment for patients is essential and if we can help them to achieve this then why not? I am taking on...
Gerry Adams tribute
Gerry Adams tributes have raised £570 “Gerry loved his garden. Each year him and Maureen would create a colourful spectacular masterpiece in their back garden. By donating to this project at Harefield Hospital shows thanks to the wonderful staff who cared for him...
The Waterman family Swimathon
Natalie Waterman, her family and their friends raised £13,000 by a swimathon in memory of her husband, a former patient at Harefield. “My husband would have loved this plan for a beautiful garden to ensure that all generations can come together in a peaceful...
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“Somewhere to socialise and spend time with visitors”
This garden is funded entirely by the generosity of people like you. Any amount, no matter how great or small, helps to ensure that The Healing Garden will always be there for those who need it.
We need to raise money every year to cover the cost of plants, bulbs, seeds and trees, for professional help, and tools and materials, to keep the garden growing and evolving and in top condition.
All funds raised to go to the Harefield Healing Garden; a restricted appeal of the