Gardening Projects
Gardening improves physical and mental health and can bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health, or those who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable.
Working with local communities, Locality Links uses gardening as a safe and secure way to develop someone's ability to mix socially and make friends, and to learn practical skills to help them be more independent. The benefits of a sustained and active interest in gardening include:
- • Better physical health through exercise and learning how to use or strengthen muscles to improve mobility
- • Improved mental health through a sense of purpose and achievement
- • The opportunity to connect with others – reducing feelings of isolation or exclusion
- • Acquiring new skills to improve the chances of finding employment
- • Just feeling better for being outside, in touch with nature and in the 'great outdoors'
Locality Links supports local communities to develop a range of gardening groups and projects, and can help people with all kinds of disabilities, including:
- • Mental ill health
- • Stroke/heart disease
- • Visual impairment
- • Dementia
- • Learning disabilities
- • Older people
- • Young people with special needs
