The BRI Sanctuary Square Courtyard is home to our weekly dementia-friendly gardening activities.
Providing comfort and joy to so many older people at the hospital, we need your help restoring an important part of this healing space by mid-November 2024.
How To Help
We’re looking for donations of shade-loving perennials, such as ferns, heucheras and geraniums, to transform the living wall back to its former glory.
Together with hospital volunteers, we will begin replanting in mid-November, using violets, strawberries and ajuga propagated at our community sessions, plus the other shade-loving perennials we are donated. Alongside the beautiful Acer trees, colourful planters and wheelchair-accessible raised beds of the courtyard, this wall of greenery will once again help create a tranquil oasis at the hospital.
Where To Donate
We are gratefully accepting plant donations at the below locations:
Wellspring Settlement, BS5 0AX
Thursdays between 1:00-4:00pm
Charlton Road Allotments, BS10 6JZ
Mondays and Tuesdays between 3:30-4:30pm
Create Centre, BS1 6XN
Mondays to Fridays between 9am-5pm
How Your Donation Will Help
The Living Wall is an important part of the Sanctuary Square Courtyard where we deliver our gardening sessions for patients at the BRI. By donating, you will be directly helping the restoration of the space. Here are some quotes from patients who attended our gardening sessions:
It’s so beautiful here, you can just let all of your troubles disappear!
The walls close in on the ward, but being outside is therapeutic.
Everyone should have the chance to come here, it uplifts the spirits. This is so lovely in the fresh air.
I didn’t even know this was here, this is where people go to get their brains back in control. In the hospital, you feel like you’re nobody, nowhere – so this is very necessary.
To find out more, please contact us by calling 0117 377 4756 or emailing info@aliveactivities.org.
