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Green Health Thames Valley is a not-for-profit Charity that offers support through horticultural therapy for those suffering with social and mental health conditions. GHTV is an organisation that aims to help individuals cope with their mental health through horticultural therapy.

11/07/2026

What a week of blessings! Sarah met up with Terry's Reading Walkabouts at First Friday Club Reading as he is walking for our charity as well as Daisies Dream. We are so grateful

A 60th birthday wish meant a trip to the seaside with sunshine, swimming, ice cream and lots of laughs along the way! Many shells, pebbles and memories were made and will be treasured!

02/07/2026

What a beautiful week at GHTV. A pleasure to welcome the team from RHS - Royal Horticultural Society In Your Neighbourhood to the garden. They stayed long enough after their garden tour for a chat and cold drink. This year has passed so quickly! Looking forward to the special event in September where we hear how we got along and also all the other gardens in our area.

We have been preparing the wood for our raised bed repairs and starting to think about re designing our composting area. Busy weeks ahead!

27/06/2026

What a busy few weeks!

We are excited to be part of a University of Reading study into Air Quality in local community gardens and it was a pleasure to welcome Professor Yang to the garden to share information on the project and teach us how to use the sensors.

The Cinnabar caterpillars have been feeding on Ragwort in the garden and it has been wonderful to watch them grow on this widely vilified plant that is so important to these caterpillars and many other pollinators.

We harvested the seeds from our Woad plants that we grew using seeds from The Museum of English Rural Life and packaged them up ready to give away at East Reading Festival and other local events over the summer.

Lisa and Sarah from the Community Health Champions team at Reading Council visited and we are delighted to be working with them on an event later in the year.

We welcomes Louis from fro the WATES group who have gifted us with timber to repair one of our raised beds and a couple of new water butts. We are so grateful.

Our volunteers Sue and Dave came in and worked very hard in our shade tunnel and it is looking much tidier and spacious.

To end the heat wave, we welcomed our whole team to the garden for an 'Away Day' where we have been planning the next five years at GHTV...we are very excited!

07/06/2026

By leaving room for wildlife in the garden, we are able to experience and enjoy full life cycles, metamorphoses, food chains and webs and also the visible impact on the human visitors to the garden when something new or exciting is spotted!

We have enjoyed garden salad this week and started to dry leaves and flowers to use as teas later on in the year. It is not long until the Summer Solstice and the garden is bright with summer colours.

28/05/2026

We would like to celebrate and thank Mayor Alice Mpofu Coles for her tireless work locally over the past 12 months and welcome Mayor Paul Gitting into the role. We hope to see Alice dancing at every opportunity that she can. What a year of service you have given. The Mayor of Reading

20/05/2026

We are incredibly lucky to have our rose hedges and are happy to be gifting some rose petal confetti for a local wedding...the gifts from the garden really are varied and boundless!

19/05/2026

Another little video from our Real Time treasures. Thank you John Sykes Foundation.

23/04/2026

We have had busy week in the garden but still found time to sit and enjoy it. Our woad grown from seeds from the The Museum of English Rural Life is in full bloom and the flowers smell like honey.

We wished goodbye to the lovely Sarah Hunneman who is joining the Community Health Champions team Reading Council. We will miss seeing her every week when we do the wellbeing walks from Hexham Community Centre but wish her the best of luck in her new role.

06/04/2026

The first of our monthly short clips with messages from the garden. They were made in collaboration with Real Time and funded by John Sykes Foundation. We love them and hope you do too.

04/04/2026

It is with great sadness that we share the loss of Richard Byard who passed away at the end of March. Richard was our Chair of Trustees from 2017 to 2023 when he moved to Wales for a new adventure with Sara. Richard supported GHTV for over a decade and was committed to our mission of promoting mental well-being through horticultural therapy. He spent much time seeking funding for the charity but also spent time on site with our group whenever he was able to do so. As a result, he was known well, thought of fondly and will be missed. Love and condolences go to his wife Sara, Clare and Terry and to everyone else that knew and loved him.

Richard is pictured here at the opening of our garden hub with Sara and the then Mayor, Rachel Eden who opened the hub for us and then with the wider team including Elton who constructed the building. Richard had a smile on his face and pride in his eyes. This is how we will remember him always. Thank you Richard for all you brought to our garden.

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Address

The Well, Dawlish Road, Whitley
Reading
RG27SD

Opening Hours

Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+447450334091

Website

https://greenhealththamesvalley.org.uk/

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