Growing Well-being with SAGE Greenfingers

Greenfingers Women Harvest
Greenfingers Women Harvest

SAGE stands for Support Arts Gardening Education. We support adults experiencing a range of mental health issues, recognising that mental health is strongly linked to physical and social well-being.

Here we offer gardening activity on 5 south-facing sites overlooking the Don valley. A typical session involves gathering to plan activities over a cup of tea before spending the morning gardening independently or with others. Around 1pm everyone gathers to eat a lunch made by members from produce harvested that morning. We pride ourselves on the diversity of our project and, via funds from the Big Lottery Ecominds, we have recently been able to support more refugees and asylum seekers. We also run art & craft activities on site, occasional days out and the singing workshops (see below).

As the recession bites, fundraising has become more challenging. We have recently launched a “Friends of SAGE” scheme for local people keen to support our work via occasional workdays on site or in other ways. For more info please look at our website www.sagesheffield.org.uk or phone 274 3651.

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