Mayfield Nurseries is a charitable social enterprise supporting people with mental health problems and dementia through horticultural therapy, peer support, work experience and training. The group use horticulture as a platform for change and improvement, offering people the chance to build their resilience and to improve their confidence and wellbeing in order to lead a more active role in the community.
Location: Southampton
Mayfield Nurseries is a charitable social enterprise supporting people with mental health problems and dementia through horticultural therapy, peer support, work experience and training. The group use horticulture as a platform for change and improvement, offering people the chance to build their resilience and to improve their confidence and wellbeing in order to lead a more active role in the community.
The ethos of the charity comes from personal experience of staff having their own mental health problems. Supporting the whole person, means you can encourage and enable them; which is the thinking behind the charity. Their ambition that no one in the community needs to face a mental health problem alone has driven their ambition to increase the range and accessibility of services including peer support, GP referral schemes and dementia support.
Many of the people supported have moved through their services to become peer mentors, volunteers and ultimately moving on to paid employment; giving people the support and encouragement that they were afforded. Through their work, the group have improved beneficiary’s wellbeing by an average of 80%, improved their confidence and self-esteem by 96%, and have reduced the isolation people feel by 100%.
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