The Trust is keen to encourage local community groups and schools.
Education & Communities News
Reclining chairs donated to “The Secret Garden”
Elizabeth Bacon and Sue Blaxland have visited “The Secret Garden” at Glenfield Hospital to hand over officially the two reclining garden chairs that the Trust is donating to the project. Originally the walled kitchen garden to Leicester Frith (the Victorian mansion on the hospital site) and used by Mental Health Services during the 20th Century, the garden had become derelict. Thanks to many generous donations and volunteer support, it is now almost restored and is…
Secret Garden progress
I recently had to go to Glenfield Hospital and took the opportunity to visit the Secret Garden, formerly the walled kitchen garden at Leicester Frith, which we researched a couple of years ago. I was keen to see the progress that had been made in the garden. Thanks to donations of materials and labour, a seating area has been created and there will be a café. In front of the 18th century wall, individual bays…
Corona Virus has not stopped our education support
This year has been significantly different to previous years. Due to Corona Virus we were unable to make our usual trip to Kelmarsh. We have really missed this annual event and hope we can restart it next year. We have continued to link up with schools and support them through providing small amounts of funding for gardening projects. This has included a project at Thrussington school which was given money for raised beds in February….
2019 LRGT Brooksby Melton College Horticultural Award.
Megan Summers was the recipient of the 2019 LRGT Brooksby Melton College Horticultural Award. Megan, 19, was chosen for her contribution as an ambassador of countryside education. She received a cheque for £100, which she chose to spend on books.. Megan told the Melton Times, “Having completed level three horticulture, achieving a distinction, and now undertaking level three countryside management, I feel so lucky, privileged and proud to have been chosen to receive this award”…
Daffodils
Once again we have been able to deliver daffodil bulbs to schools. I have found 4 lovely photos from Medway foundation class I visited Medway an inner city school in the Highfields It was a wet autumn morning It was a scruffy bit of earth next to a wire fence Each child came outside and using a bulb planter popped a bulb in the hole and replaced a plug of earth on top The children ,many of whom do not…
Glenfield Hospital Secret Garden
The Trust is pleased to have been able to donate two comfortable garden chairs to the the Secret Garden at Glenfield Hospital. This follows the research we did into the Walled Kitchen Garden at Glenfield Hospital