Charity Partner 2025

This year, Beetham Nurseries is partnering with Growing Well to assist in fundraising and awareness to support their proven therapeutical support for adults with mental ill health. Throughout 2025, you'll see Growing Well at our events, and we'll also be hosting exclusive events for them to raise vital funds to support their service offering.

Growing Well provides a professional, specialist adult mental health intervention for adults experiencing a moderate to severe level of mental ill health, in the non-clinical context of a thriving horticultural enterprise. Their holistic and individualised service delivery model provides supervised therapeutic horticultural activity, training and skills development, structured, goals-based 1:1 sessions, peer support, signposting and supported transitions. Individuals attend on one day per week for up to a year, with up to 20 people attending daily.  
 
They began in Kendal in 2004 and opened a second site at Tebay Services in January 2023. In 2024, they opened a third site in Egremont, West Cumbria, responding to the growing need in the area for quickly accessible, targeted mental health support for people experiencing moderate to severe illness and ensuring that nobody in Cumbria is more than an hour away from accessing their unique support.  
 
Their holistic approach and model tackle a broad range of social, emotional, and physical needs and the extended duration of their structured support (compared with other, prescribed interventions) delivers a sustained recovery. They equip individuals with skills, networks and personal resilience to withstand future challenges. Their service is proven to transform people’s lives, and they record a significant uplift in mental health after 6 months for more than 70% of those they support, with 100% of current attendees saying that attendance has a positive effect on their mental health.
 
Growing Well’s horticultural enterprise operates at commercial scale and is the biggest organic producer in Cumbria. Individuals they support are directly involved in all supply chains and therefore experience a tangible sense of purpose and produce sales underpin vital income for the charity. 
 
We are delighted to be Partnering with Beetham Nurseries in 2025 as we know their customers will be fully supportive of our approach and will naturally recognise and appreciate the mental health and wellbeing benefits of gardening and spending time outdoors in nature.

Click here to find out more about Growing Well.