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Mires Beck Nursery Events and Workshops

Mires Beck Nursery is one of Yorkshire's leading suppliers of wildflowers and cottage garden perennials. Mires Beck Nursery is also a registered charity providing training and work experience for people who have a learning disability. Our primary purpose is to provide a pleasant enjoyable environment where people who have a learning difficulty or disability can develop their skills, increase their self esteem and confidence, as they are involved in the growing and care of a wide range of plants

In 1985 a 10 acre field, with a broken down barn and one tree, was bought by Richard and Irene Tinklin. The aim was to start a nursery specialising in wildflowers. Their vision was to create a place where people who were disadvantaged in some way could come and be involved in a range of horticultural and gardening activities. A big step forward came in 1994 when Mires Beck Nursery became a registered charity (No 1038078). Trustees were appointed, a manager was employed and 4 young people began attending the nursery for training and work experience. Being a charity also enabled grants to be applied for and further improvements to the facilities have been made including, glasshouses, offices, teaching rooms and extensive garden areas. We have now reached the stage where some 100 people each week come to the nursery, finding satisfaction, enjoyment and fulfilment from being part of a real working environment producing a wide range of superb quality plants.

We are in the midst of designing a new building for our service users with the most profound difficulties and including an area for people who are aging and in the future will no longer be able to work around the nursery as they do now. In creating the new facility we will have a duplicate hall per our current building which we are now starting to use to attract other users and the general public through various activities, hence this page for our Events and Workshops.