Goals: To give young people with special educational needs the chance to gain vocational qualifications and learn new skills through horticulture
Funding: 67,000 over three years from the Peter Harrison Foundation, The Dulverton Trust, and the Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
Learning how to nurture a plant or prune a tree can bring enormous benefits to young people with special educational needs, as one project in Berkshire has found.
The Growing Options project, run by disability gardening charity Thrive, is in the process of delivering such a project to 24 young people aged 14 to 16 from the Reading area.
Since September 2006, the project has worked with three groups of eight young people from schools in the area for one day a week. This will continue for the next two years.
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