Green Health Thames Valley

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Green Health Thames Valley Visit our website for more information. https://greenhealththamesvalley.org.uk/

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.

We are very much looking forward to attending this event on Sunday at Forbury Garden. Come along and join us as well as ...
08/10/2026

We are very much looking forward to attending this event on Sunday at Forbury Garden. Come along and join us as well as many other stall holders.

So much to celebrate in September! A visit from Ann from Queen Victoria Fund Reading to see how the funds were being spe...
01/10/2026

So much to celebrate in September! A visit from Ann from Queen Victoria Fund Reading to see how the funds were being spent on our cooking sessions with Lavender Garden Cookery.

Everyone was delighted with our RHS Community Gardening Outstanding level award and also a very special 'Gardening for Wildlife' award which fits so well with what is at the heart to our approach here at GHTV.

Welcome October and we look forward to many more deliciously happy memories!

What a joy to have some rain in the garden. We welcomed Phoebe and Gavin from Shinfield Studio to the garden and in exch...
11/09/2026

What a joy to have some rain in the garden. We welcomed Phoebe and Gavin from Shinfield Studio to the garden and in exchange for some wonderful coffee grounds, we gifted them a garden bouquet to take away.

Our lovely volunteer brought in an umbrella that made many of us smile and the garden wildlife also caught our eye and imagination this week...fluttering butterflies and moths, shiny shield bugs and rosemary beetles and many different tiny wasps, hoverflies and ladybirds.

We have been sowing salad seeds and collecting seeds from different areas in the garden...can you tell what they are?

We are delighted to let everyone know the we have been awarded the Safe and Sound Award from Reading Voluntary Action. T...
30/08/2026

We are delighted to let everyone know the we have been awarded the Safe and Sound Award from Reading Voluntary Action. This shows that Green Health Thames Valley is demonstrating good governance in all eight areas of governing and managing a charity. We are one of only 26 local charities (out of 870 registered) to have this recognition and are very, very pleased. Thank you to our whole team for working hard on this but especially our trustee Tricia for leading on this with Charlotte and at RVA, Herjeet Vass for her hard work and support.

We welcomed family and friends to our garden this week for a 'non BBQ' and it was such a joy to relax together and share this wonderful space with faces old and new.

The Reading Council Community Health Champions were also our guests this week as we hosted a social and reflective get together. Julie from Reading Green Wellbeing Network made lavender bags with attendees and we enjoyed food together. Thank you to Dayna, Sarah, Lisa and Joanne for pulling it all together on the afternoon. The sun shone and the garden cradled us all.

Some weeks are so busy that they fly past before you notice they've gone. The past month has felt this way at Green Heal...
21/08/2026

Some weeks are so busy that they fly past before you notice they've gone. The past month has felt this way at Green Health Thames Valley.

We took part in the Earley Green Fair organised by Earley Town Council and raised some much needed funds that we are using to buy food for our upcoming friends and family day at the garden.

Ralph has been converting one large garden bed in to two smaller ones to enable our group to better access the space. THANK YOU RALPH!!

We have welcomed Paula from Lavender Garden Cookery School for cooking sessions funded by Queen Victoria Fund Reading. Our group got hands on with preparation and cooking the recipes that aim to support our 30 plants a week target and use produce from the garden wherever possible.

In a separate culinary incident, Maxine baked an apple crumble with apples from our neighbours at Whitley CDA. It was gratefully received!

Our new volunteer Jasmine has settled in and is incredibly hardworking. She is also a very talented artist. Look at the unique cap she made and brought many smiles with!

We were delighted to have Queen European Hornets and Hummingbird moths in the garden as well as several new hoverflies and lacewings. It shows that we are doing some things right in terms of encouraging biodiversity.

We heard the happy news that Laycee who volunteered with us last year has graduated!! Congratulations from us all.

The heat has been very hard to manage for our garden and our group so we are very relieved to have some rain and a cooler spell. Thank you to everyone that has worked so hard to water outside of our opening hours to keep as much of the garden alive as possible! We have been making holes in the ground with our garden forks to try and draw in as much moisture as we can before the proper rain starts next week.

What a week of blessings! Sarah met up with Terry's Reading Walkabouts at First Friday Club Reading as he is walking for...
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!

What a beautiful week at GHTV. A pleasure to welcome the team from RHS - Royal Horticultural Society In Your Neighbourho...
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!

What a busy few weeks!We are excited to be part of a University of Reading study into Air Quality in local community gar...
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!

By leaving room for wildlife in the garden, we are able to experience and enjoy full life cycles, metamorphoses, food ch...
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.

We would like to celebrate and thank Mayor Alice Mpofu Coles for her tireless work locally over the past 12 months and w...
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

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The Well, Dawlish Road, Whitley
Reading
RG27SD

Opening Hours

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

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+447450334091

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