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About the Garden Project

Community Support Officer - August 2008
Briarcourt.gardens@kirklees.gov.uk

Briarcourt Gardens, a Kirklees Adult Services project started in 1998, is part of a new system of day care for adults with learning disabilities within South Kirklees.

The garden project offers work
as an alternative to day care
for adults, regardless of their ability.

It has been developed over the last 8 years by the service users and staff who work there.
The sensory garden 2 years on
(The sensory garden)

Everyone is involved in growing a range of produce including flowers
and herbs. The work involves:
  • sowing seeds, transplanting, repotting.
  • making up bunches of flowers
  • planting up hanging baskets and containers
  • weeding, digging
  • riddling soil, making up compost
  • developing the site by making paths, ponds and raised beds.
For more information about the Garden Project give us a call on 0780 174 1874 and come take a look around.

On site there are a number of different perennial plants available, cut flowers made into bunches, a selection of herbs and hanging baskets made to order. Its well worth a visit.

Community Gardening Service

A team of service users from Briarcourt Gardens provides a gardening service for older and disabled people living in the Bradley, Sheepbridge, Deighton and Fartown areas of Kirklees.

The service, which was launched in March 2005, is run in partnership with the Huddersfield Deanery Project. The team from Briarcourt provide a basic garden maintenance service - mowing lawns, cutting hedges, weeding, pruning, clearing paths and general garden tidying. The have 40 very satisfied customers who they visit on a monthly basis... and an ever growing waiting list!

How to contact us...


by Email to Briarcourt.gardens@kirklees.gov.uk
by Phone George Deans, Community Enabler
0780 174 1874

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