Is your TH project ready for referrals from health, care and social prescribing services?
with Fiona Thackeray & Emma Martindale
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Non-members - £10
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 originally qualified with a BSc in Ecology and then went on to work in a variety of community garden projects in Edinburgh including at the Edinburgh Community Backgreens Association, and Gorgie City Farm. She then returned to study, completing a Masters in Social Work and then working in an adult learning disability team in the Scottish Borders while continuing to garden at home, and as a volunteer with Gorebridge Community Gardens. After 8 years in social work the pull of therapeutic gardening was strong, and she is now self-employed running Nature on the Mind, which supports individuals and organisations to improve wellbeing through gardening and time in nature. Emma has an interest the professional development of those working in social and therapeutic gardens, the links between improved wellbeing and time spent in gardens and nature, and in academic research relating to horticultural therapy and nature-based interventions.