THIS Social Gardens
We have been funded by the National Lottery, The Geoffrey Watling Charity, Hopestead and the Love Norfolk Fund, which is administered by the Norfolk Community Foundation, to help people who are struggling to manage their gardens because of, for example, health difficulties (mental and physical), disabilities and additional learning needs.
A team of THIS workers will come into the garden for up to a day to give it a really good tidy. If you know anyone who would benefit from this service, please get in touch by calling 07810 605233. They will need to be within a 30-minute drive of Thetford or Stowmarket. We really look forward to hearing from you.
Some of our THIS team beginning a social garden helped by Sarah Taylor, Police and Crime Commisioner for Norfolk
What Our Customers Say
We’d recommend you to any business, the work you’ve done for us has been fantastic, with real attention to detail and such lovely people doing it.
Your team are doing a great job and have made a huge difference to the look of our cemetery and long may it continue.
I would like to start by saying what a fantastic service to offer people in my situation. I am a disabled pensioner and am unable to get out and do anything in the garden for myself. It is so frustrating and depressing looking out of my windows and seeing the garden just deteriorating day by day. My friend Heath put me on to Tim and his gang. I couldn’t believe it when she first suggested it to me.
As promised, the team turned up on the morning of the 12th of November, bright and early. I had ordered a skip myself because I knew there was a lot of stuff in the garden that needed to be thrown out. Some of which had been there for many years.
They split up into groups to get things going. The person I have used before to cut my lawn, hadn’t been able to do it for the last few months, so that needed doing as well. They just got on with it. Filling my skip was absolutely brilliant. Got rid of all the rubbish and junk that had been there for years. They did the lawn, borders, edging etc, all the way around the house. It has really cheered me up in these strange, depressing times we are going through. The team were all very polite and hard working.
I would certainly give them 10 out of 10. And couldn’t have done a better job.
My sincere thanks to all. And feel free to use my name on this.
Donate to THIS
Eventually we plan to be self sustaining as a realistic business model. It is our belief social enterprises will be a big part of the business landscape in the years to come. We can compete with established business models and add a significant element of benefit to communities and excluded groups.
Thank You!
Your assistance helps THIS to work with a greater number of former offenders. We are hugely grateful to all our supporters.
Our Supporters and Friends
We are immensely grateful to the following for their support, including Stihl who have donated us some ex-display machinery which run on rechargeable batteries. This has enabled us to improve our carbon footprint.
