Fiona Thackeray, Trellis CEO & Emma Martindale, Trellis Training & Standards Officer
Join Fiona and Emma as they share their experience of using therapeutic horticulture (TH) to support health and wellbeing — both as part of social prescribing and as a valuable intervention in its own right. They’ll talk through what works in practice and offer helpful tips if you’re looking to connect with services as part of social prescribing or start accepting referrals from health and care professionals.
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Speaker biography
Fiona Thackeray - Chief Executive Officer - Trellis
Fiona was awarded the Dr Andrew Duncan Medal by the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society in 2019 to recgonise her contribution to horticulture. She has worked in therapeutic gardening for 27 years, with people with learning disabilities in Bristol and students with visual impairments in Brazil (with whom she built Brazil’s 4th sensory garden) before returning to Perthshire to support therapeutic gardening projects all over Scotland. She pursued her interest in the natural world in Greece, working in sea turtle conservation and later in Brazil, helping on a project investigating the relationship between orchids and bees in the Atlantic Forest.
Emma Martindale - Training & Standards Officer
Emma Martindale is Training and Standards Officer at Trellis. With a background in ecology, horticulture and social work, she has experience across community gardening, frontline social work, horticultural and community settings. Emma develops and delivers therapeutic horticulture programmes and training, including Scotland’s first accredited practitioner-level training in therapeutic horticulture. She also works with colleagues develop and launch the UK Association for Social and Therapeutic Horticulture and its practitioner register. Alongside Trellis, Emma runs Nature on the Mind, providing therapeutic horticulture sessions, wildlife-friendly gardening services, and garden coaching - supporting individuals to gain skills and confidence in gardening. Her work brings together people, plants and nature to support wellbeing.