🌿 Roots & Resilience: Sensory Garden Impact report

Thanks to funding from the Bupa Foundation Green Community Grant, we’ve created a sensory garden that is already being enjoyed by families, schools and the wider community.

Highlights

🌱 13 sessions delivered
🤝 14 volunteers involved
🏡 14 community organisations collaborated
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 255 people directly involved
🌿 300 visitors to the space

Working together

This project was made possible through true community collaboration.

We we collaborated with:

🌱 Coleg Y Cymoedd with Carol Fatkin and her team and students to design, measure and make items for the sensory garden (including the lovely bughouse!)

🌿 C&M pressure washing service who cleaned our garden area for us for free.

🌱 Volunteers - who helped prep areas, paint and tidy the area.

🌿Volunteers from Network Rail who came and put everything together for us, thanks to Jill from Business in the Community who helped to arrange the day.

🌱 Donations from community members, including the greenhouse, planters, windmills and soil.

🌿 Mens Shed who made our lovely bird house. .

🌱 Caerphilly Garden centre so their generous discounts and donations.

🌿Woodland Walk for their generous discount. .

🌱 Garden plants South Wales for their generous discount (absolutely love that citrus tree!)

🌿 Nature by the Taff for their lovely donation of plants. .

🌱 Families & schools who have enjoyed the space and planted their own plants and flowers to take home to grow.

This has been a shared effort from start to finish.

The difference it’s making

The garden is now a calm, welcoming space where children and families - particularly those with additional learning needs - can explore, connect and simply enjoy being outdoors.

It’s used daily for sessions, visits and even as a quiet space for staff wellbeing 🌿

Thank you

A huge thank you to the Bupa Foundation, Groundwork, and everyone who played a part in bringing this space to life.