AWE gives generous donation to gardening charity Thrive

AWE has given a sizeable donation to a charity that helps disabled, vulnerable and disadvantaged people by running therapeutic gardening sessions.

Thrive, a nationwide organisation, runs weekly sessions in the local area which involves client gardeners receiving bespoke support from the charity’s horticultural therapists.

AWE donated £15,000 to Thrive, its charity partner for the past few years, to help fund these weekly sessions that have great benefits for clients’ physical and psychological health, as well as their communication and thinking skills.

Thrive’s head of operations Ben Thomas said: “We would like to express our thanks to AWE and its staff for their ongoing support of our centre.

“We are thrilled to be AWE’s charity partner and to have received a further generous donation. This donation will make a genuine difference, enabling Thrive to have a real and lasting impact for our clients.

“Thank you for the ways you have contributed to the lives of our client gardeners and all the work you have put in to make this donation possible.”

Client gardeners benefit from an approach called social and therapeutic horticulture which sees Thrive’s trained horticultural therapists creating tailored activities for each of them to improve their particular health needs, and to work on certain goals they want to achieve.

AWE’s Charity Fund secretary Michele Maidment said: “It’s good to know that this latest donation will help Thrive’s clients use gardening as part of their personal health and wellbeing management.

“We love sharing the progress of Thrive’s clients with our staff as they have taken the charity and its work to heart over the last few years.”