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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
Thrive Publications Catalogue
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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Thrive, The Geoffrey Udall Centre, Beech Hill, Reading, RG7 2AT.
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notice. Full terms and conditions can be seen at www.thrive.org.uk. Thrive is registered in the UK as The
Society for Horticultural Therapy. Thrive is a registered charity (number 277570) and a limited company
(number 1415700).
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