Our Year in Numbers - 2022
This past year has been a successful one in achieving our social impact goals and objectives to help people, places, planet and nature thrive. Below demonstrates our year in numbers:
192 volunteers gave 2,057 hours of their time to help our charity with a number of our horticultural and environmental projects to create positive change and improve their wellbeing.
250 hours of Green Therapy was enjoyed though our horticultural therapy sessions where local individuals who are inactive or long term unemployed, experiencing social isolation and/or poor wellbeing, improved confidence through our gardening projects.
3 twelve week community programmes were run with the Welcombe Hills school, Stratford Bentley Nursing Home and The RSC. We supported 15 individuals with mild to moderate learning difficulties from Welcombe Hills School alongside ThinkForward to provide horticultural and environmental activities and learning designed to improve their soft skills, communication, teamwork, independence and self-confidence. Thanks to funding from the McCarthy Stone Foundation we could also run a ‘Gardening Club’ at Stratford Bentley Nursing Home for residents to reignite their passions for gardening whilst socialising, getting creative and being active. We worked alongside The Royal Shakespeare Company and artist Faye Claridge to bring local community groups together in the creation of a garden at The Dell, through planting and construction, as well as engaging in a workshops to produce ephemeral art pieces to showcase on Shakespeare’s Birthday celebration.
76 linear metres of living wall installed to complete our Warwickshire Living Walls project aim of designing and installing 100 linear metres across Warwickshire to create greener spaces in urban environments and improve air purification.
2,021 trees planted as part of our Plant Trees Plant Hope campaign in a bid to build biodiversity, combat climate change and create green spaces in a number of local community areas.
12 corporate partners joined us as part of their CSR initiatives, employee volunteering schemes and sustainability programmes to help us create positive change and give back. We give thanks to adiGroup, BAM Construction, BAT, Cadent, Coca-Cola, DHL, England Netball, The Hershey Company, Iemployability, London Speaker Bureau, Low Carbon and Waitrose for all their support throughout the year.
5 gardens created to provide places of purpose to improve wellbeing, boost biodiversity, enhance volunteering opportunities and give back to the local community and NHS. Gardens were created at Stratford, Leamington and Warwick hospitals, Birmingham Road in Stratford and at The Dell for the Royal Shakespear Company.
535kg of fruit picked and donated through our Harvest Share project where we visited many local orchards to pick the fruit and donated it all to community care homes, hospitals and animal shelters to help those in need and reduce food waste. We delivered to: Melville House, Bentley Retirement Home, Methodist Church, Stratford hospital, The Limes, Briar Croft, Rosalind Court, Foundation House and Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Tiddington Retirement.
3 more Barn Owl chicks inhabiting the Barn Owl box at our nature reserve. Following the success of last year with the Barn Own box at our Field of Life, members of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) visited again for a routine inspection and we were delighted to discover 3 healthy, well fed Barn Owl chicks.
67,000 people reached through social media to help spread the message of improving wellbeing, building biodiversity, taking climate action and sustainability.
