Stroke survivors and heart recovery

Gardening for hearts and minds £11.50 including UK post & packing

Gardening at home can be a good way to get your life back

after a stroke or if you have heart disease. This 18 page

guide shows how just 30 minutes of gardening a day can

help recovery. It has a series of easy-to-follow, step-by-step

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Growing food for hearts and minds £2.50 including UK post & packing

This guide focuses on how growing your own food can

help in the rehabilitation process of stroke survivors.

There are 12 different types of fruit and vegetables that

have been chosen for their added benefits.

Author: Thrive

Gardening Independence Version 1 £2.50 including UK post & packing Information and advice to help older people carry on

Gardening.

Dementia and older people

Gardening Independence Version 2 £2.50 including UK post & packing As for Version 1 with an additional self-assessment questionnaire.

Author: Thrive

The production of these guides has been made possible with funding from The Headley Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts.

progressive gardening activities , which are divided into levels 1,2 and 3. The activities will help build

up strength and stamina, relax muscles, improve balance and movement, keep the heart healthy, burn

calories and best of all make you feel good!

Author: Thrive

Creating Gardening Independence £31.50 including UK post & packing

This is a practical guide to recruiting and training volunteer garden advisors to

support disabled or older gardeners. Find out how to recruit volunteers, run a

full training programme, set up a scheme from scratch, how to meet health and

safety requirements, access sample forms and policies, and sources of further

information.

Author: Thrive

64 pages, outsized A4 ring binder, loose A4 pages, full colour.

Gardening Yearbook Free to people with sight loss or £2.00 UK post & packing

This book gives top tips for each month of the year to help you in the flower and

vegetable garden, general gardening advice, and information from blind

gardeners.

Author: Thrive and RNIB

A4, wire-bound, 55 pages with a light laminate finish.

Available in large print, on audio CD and in Braille.

Publications for those with sight loss

Gardening Together FREE+ £3.50 UK post & packing

A practical guide to setting up and running a gardening activity club for people

living in sheltered accommodation.

Author: Thrive 34 pages, A5 ring binder, loose A5 pages, full colour

Tips for Easier Gardening Available free as a pdf or £1.00 including UK post & packing A5 Leaflet with top tips from Thrive on how gardening can be easier for everyone.

There is information on how to improve access to your garden, low-maintenance

solutions that you might want to consider, some useful advice on tools which can

make jobs easier, and details of simple but effective gardening techniques.

Author: Thrive

Raised Beds Available free as pdfs. For printed originals please get in touch Two leaflets - one with information to help you decide whether raised beds are for

you and the other giving information on the different ways to construct raised

beds bearing in mind safety aspects, various construction materials and

recommended sizes.

Getting on with growing food £10+£3.50 post & packing. Free postage for those with sight loss

A useful book with 172 full-colour pages of information on how to grow your own

fruit and vegetables. It covers planning your fruit and vegetable garden, seed

sowing, planting and watering and has a month by month food gardening planner.

Authors: Thrive and RNIB

Available in large print, on audio CD, on Daisy CD and in Braille.

Getting on with growing in containers £8.50+£3.50 post & packing. Free postage for those with sight loss

108 full-colour pages of information on how to grow in containers. It covers

choosing, planting up and maintaining containers and gives planting ideas and tips

for ornamental containers, trees, shrubs, herbs, vegetables, fruit and houseplants.

Authors: Thrive and RNIB

Available in large print, on audio CD, Daisy CD and in Braille.

Mood boosting power of gardening Available free as a pdf or £1.00 including UK post & packing

Have you ever thought that gardening could change the way you feel? Thrive’s

8 page A5 leaflet explains how gardening can help you feel happier and

healthier and gives tips for getting started. It is aimed at people going through a

period of difficulty in their lives and are experiencing stress anxiety, or mild

depression.

Author: Thrive

Gardening4U Available free as a pdf

This 20 page A4 full-colour paperback style book is a practical guide to setting

up a gardening club for young people who have mental health issues. Read

about the benefits of having a club, how to set one up and run it efficiently, and

how you can monitor and evaluate the results. There are guidance sheets on

subjects such as risk assessment, a schedule of work, session plans and writing

reflective journals.

Author: Thrive

Mental ill health

Growing for Life Available free as a pdf

Gardening for Life is a practical guide to setting up a community garden project

for people affected by mental ill health.

Author: Thrive

Getting on with gardening—Volume 1 and Volume 2 £8.50 each + postage & packing. Free postage for those with sight loss or free as a pdf.

Volume 1 is an essential guide to gardening when you have a visual impairment.

It covers seed sowing, potting, gardening outside, tools, raised beds, planting

and watering.

Volume 2 gives advice on taking cuttings and potting, container growing,

protected growing, pruning, lawns, pests and diseases.

Author: Thrive and RNIB

Available in large print, on audio CD, in Braille or as a pdf

Gardening Together Available free as a pdf

Gardening together is a guide that has all the information you’ll need to start a

local gardening club for blind and partially sighted people.

Author: Thrive and RNIB

A4, 39 pages, full-colour

Children’s gardening £5.00 including UK post & packing (special price for last

few copies)

This month-by-month guide to using gardening activities in schools will

be helpful to teachers and horticultural therapists working with children of

all ages. It will also be of use and interest to parents and carers gardening

with children at home.

Author: Peter A. Please.

26 pages, A4 wire-bound, black & white with illustrations.

Training and education

Horticultural Therapy Methods: Making

connections in Health Care, Human Service and

Community Programs £18.50 including UK post & packing

This book details the basics of the growing, time-proven practice of

therapy through gardening. Experienced practitioners and educators

discuss horticultural therapy theory, application, and the impressive

positive impact it has on clients. Beginners are educated on key issues and

given the tools needed to effectively help clients.

Authors: Rebecca L Haller and Christine L Kramer

Gardening for Children with Autism Spectrum

Disorders and Special Educational Needs Available shortly

This book empowers teachers and parents with little gardening know-how

to get outside and use nature to motivate young learners. A simple

gardening program is presented that offers learning experiences beyond

those a special needs student can gain within the classroom. With a focus

on the therapeutic potential of nature, the book shows that gardening can

help reduce feelings of anxiety, provide an outlet for physical aggression,

build self-esteem through the nurturing of plants and much more.

Author: Natasha Etherington

Horticulture as therapy: Principles and practice £43.50 including UK post & packing

An authoritative and comprehensive overview of social and therapeutic

horticulture. Excellent introduction for students, professionals and anyone

wanting to know more about the history of the discipline and how to use

gardening and horticulture with different groups.

Authors: Sharon P. Simpson and Martha C. Straus.

478 pages, A5, paperback laminated full-colour cover.

Briefing sheets Available free as pdfs. For printed originals, please get in touch.

We have a wide range of briefing sheets, which are printed in black and white

and in an A4 leaflet format. They cover many different areas including:

sensory gardens, and gardening for people who have dementia

careers in social and therapeutic horticulture

getting a place at a project, and horticulture in secure settings.

A full list can be downloaded from www.thrive.org.uk or call 0118 988 5688.

Cultivating quality—Thrive’s Quality Assurance scheme

for garden projects £168.50 (£138.50 to Members of Thrive)

including UK post & packing

Cultivating Quality is an adaptation of PQASSO (Practical Quality Assurance

System for Small Organisations). It is vital that small organisations such as

garden projects and those using STH are able to demonstrate accountability and

the quality of their services. How do you know you are delivering a quality service

for your clients? How do you demonstrate good value for funders? This scheme

will help you provide evidence on the standards that are in place, and will take

your organisation’s aspirations and those of your clients into account, to ensure

that any solutions are realistic and time efficient. Written by Thrive, Cultivating

Quality is presented in an outsize A4 ring binder with full colour loose pages.

Author: Thrive

61 pages, outsize A4 ring binder with loose A4 pages, full colour

Information pack – Back to Basics £17.00 including UK post & packing

This set of worksheets is designed to be used when teaching key gardening skills

and basic horticultural skills to people of all ages who have a learning disability,

but occupational therapists and those working with children will also find them

useful.

Author: Thrive.

11 worksheets, A4 two-colour with illustrations, light laminate finish.

Evidence and research

Horticulture in secure settings: A study of horticultural

activities in prisons and secure psychiatric facilities £19.00 including post & packing

Thrive commissioned the first review and investigation into the issues facing

social and therapeutic horticultural projects operating in secure settings. Written

by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, it reviews international literature and

high-lights the findings of a survey of horticultural programmes operating in

various secure settings within the UK.

78 pages A4 quality paperback with 2 colour cover and inner pages

Social and therapeutic horticulture: Evidence and

messages from research £17.50 including UK post & packing

A detailed analysis relating to the outcomes and effectiveness of horticulture/

gardening in a number of settings and with different groups of disabled people

Authors: Joe Sempik, Jo Aldridge and Saul Becker.

60 pages, A4, paperback light laminated cover.

Health, well-being and social inclusion: Therapeutic

horticulture in the UK £25.50 including UK post & packing

Demonstrates the range of outcomes from using STH with vulnerable groups,

including those who have learning difficulties and mental health problems.

Essential reading for policy makers, professionals, researchers and students in

the field, also anyone interested in addressing the needs of vulnerable adults.

Authors: Joe Sempik, Jo Aldridge and Saul Becker.

138 pages, A4, full-colour paperback light laminated cover.

Growing together These publications present the findings of a working partnership between Thrive and Loughborough

University between 2003 and 2006, funded by the Big Lottery. It was the first detailed study of

horticulture and gardening projects across the UK.

Growing together: A practice guide to promoting

social inclusion through gardening and horticulture £24.00 including UK post & packing

This guide looks at the ways STH projects can help foster independence, build

self-esteem and confidence, and provide training and employment

opportunities for people who have health and social problems.

Authors: Joe Sempik, Jo Aldridge and Saul Becker.

66 pages, wire-bound A4, full-colour paperback cover and inner pages

Evidence, messages and learning £3.00 including UK post & packing

We sought to discover if gardening activities could help young people with

dementia. Although a small sample, the findings are very positive.

Authors: Thrive and Berkshire Mental Health Trust Foundation NHS.

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