
Staff, patients and visitors at the Ashford Hospital site in Surrey are benefiting from a new sensory garden, thanks to a kind donation to the Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals’ Charity from Cllr Med Buck, Mayor of Spelthorne and volunteers from the SMP Alliance M4 project, Balfour Beatty and Mway Comms, who donated resources and their time to create the garden.

When developing the new Children and Young Person’s Outpatient department at Ashford Hospital, we wanted to create a space that provided a calming environment that eases any anxieties felt by our younger patients.

Representatives from Rangeford Villages and St Peter’s Hospital joined together to celebrate the installation of new planters donated and designed by the gardening team at Homewood Grove, Rangeford Village’s new retirement community in Chertsey.

As part of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week in May, Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s staff and volunteers were invited to enter a photography competition with the theme of nature. The competition forms part of the Trust’s Healing Arts Programme, a national initiative that is part funded by the Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital’s Charity to provide different forms of art that improve both staff and patient environments. The shortlisted photos will be displayed across our hospital sites over the coming months and will eventually find permanent homes on the walls of our hospitals.

Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (ASPH) welcomed an expert judge from RHS Wisley to help decide the winners of the second annual ASPH in Bloom competition.
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