Life at No.27 Treatment Allotments and Yard in Towcester has been open since 2019, providing free and low worth psychological properly being counselling, allotments and horticultural treatment for these in need inside the realm folks. 

Till we’re capable of enhance a minimal of £20,000 the whole enterprise in Towcester, Northamptonshire would possibly wish to shut in November 2024!

So we have launched a Crowdfunder advertising and marketing marketing campaign and would love you to share it with any associates, family and native firms which can be concerned in serving to. Proper right here is the hyperlink:

Over the last 5 years we have strived to help improve the wellbeing of those great neighborhood members who’re attend our lessons. Whether or not or not it is by self-refferal or GP referral. Offering weekly and twice weekly help for adults experiencing nervousness, melancholy, PTSD, PND and challenges referring to loss, trauma and dependancy.

“Since gaining a small allotment at ‘Life at No.27′ my psychological properly being and regular correctly being has on no account been so good. The prospect to work with a little bit of land and swap it proper right into a sustainable meals provide has been unbelievable. I’ve planted and sowed seeds and week by week watched them flip proper right into a full meal for my family and I. It has given me headspace and perspective which no treatment would possibly and I am so grateful for this. To have this taken away undoes the entire work many individuals have put in to return this far not solely on our allotments however as well as our psychological properly being.” Grownup shopper gardener.

We now have now moreover been working our weekly After College Membership for teenagers, which gives a safe, pleasing, outdoors space for the relax, play, particular themselves and examine new skills after the faculty day.

“The women truly prefer it – thanks very rather a lot.” Mum or dad, 2024

Why we should shut:

We rely on grant funding and donations to run the treatment yard and allotments and I not too way back found that following my utility, we haven’t been awarded the identical previous grant we have that retains the positioning going yearly. Funding is getting tighter and tighter, which implies the larger well-known named charities are going for the smaller pots of funds, that us and totally different native groups rely on. Based on this info, till we’re capable of enhance a minimal of £20,000 the whole enterprise in Towcester would possibly wish to shut in November.

What we’ve got to extend and why:

• £20,000 would permit us to recruit a treatment supervisor and counsellor to run the positioning and work with purchasers for the whole of 2025.
• An extra £8,000 would permit us to make it possible for the treatment yard is professionally maintained all by means of the whole yr.
• An extra £12,000 would permit us to recruit a faithful fundraising supervisor.

We would love your help to help protect the positioning going and so that we’re capable of work within the course of a further sustainable plan in 2025.

Testimonials:

“As someone who has tried CBT and talking treatment nevertheless felt awkward being nostril to nostril with a stranger in a treatment room, seeing Annabelle throughout the yard is a definite experience. Annabelle locations me comfy and having the modern air, crops, birds, acutely aware duties like planting seeds, weeding, touching and smelling the herbs, takes away all my self-consciousness and permits me to imagine, actually really feel and converse freely. It has given me the braveness and readability to make truly important changes in my life, and ongoing help to navigate any difficulties and protect the positives“

ADULT 1-2-1 CLIENT

“It’s been good! It’s truly boosted my confidence.”

STUDENT – 13 YEARS OLD