Our Impact

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Trellis Scotland impact report infographic

The Impact of Our Work

Trellis is a small organisation with only 3.7 Full Time Equivalent staff, but we do mighty things with your donations. In the last 12 months we have made a real difference to the lives of thousands of disabled and disadvantaged people, enabling them to garden with the help of practitioners trained and supported by Trellis.

Trellis Scotland impact report infographic
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People gardening using raised beds

Where your donations go and how they help

A whopping 92% of the income we generate goes directly to running our support services. Our work benefits so many different disadvantaged people.

   Impact data

14,000 disabled & disadvantaged people supported to garden

23 projects given in-depth support, helping 621 more people to garden

673 people learning and sharing good practice at our events

1,122 hours of online study

185 queries answered

70 new videos created with over 19,000 views across our channel

Stories from the Network

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garden at HMP Dumfries

HMP Dumfries

One of our most recent projects took place at HMP Dumfries where they were designing and constructing a Wellbeing Garden...

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Birkhill Dye Garden

Birkhill House Dye Garden

From Shetland to South-West Scotland, Trellis is supporting over 500 gardens projects – helping those in need, through horticulture. Our...

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Fran from the Space to Grow project

Fran's Story

The ‘Space to Grow’ garden/allotment project at the Borders Hospital Huntlyburn Ward gives patients the chance to leave the ward...

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Horners Plot

Reasons to be Cheerful

From a practitioner and long-time network member in rural Dumfries & Galloway on the subject of our network good practice...

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Digging for freedom

Digging for Freedom

The testimonial of a man who discovered the health benefits of gardening while serving his sentence at HMP Dumfries. Reproduced...

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Have a laugh

Having a Laugh

Appraisal of a Trellis Demo Session at a care home in Perthshire, winter 2017-18 The session went very well. All...

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Tales from Horners Plot

Tales from Horners Plot

A gardener from Horners Plot in Perth explains what he likes about the 'little gem' hidden away in the city...

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Lessons from the Garden

Lessons from the Garden

Mandy, a practitioner working at a school in Perth explains what she loves about her job: It’s a beautiful setting...