Gardening – Your Road To Wellbeing

Gardening – Your Road To Wellbeing

On this course you will develop your gardening skills whilst working as part of the team to maintain and enhance community centre grounds. As well as planting herbs, plants and shrubs you will also learn how to take cuttings, propagate, and maintain and develop the established gardens at one of our off-site locations.

Richmond House, Penzance – Wednesdays 10am – 12:30pm and 1pm – 3:30pm
Liskerrett Centre, Liskeard – Thursdays 10am – 4pm
Coach House, Liskeard – Fridays 10am – 3pm

Richmond House has a small greenhouse, many containers and a small vegetable area and fruit trees.

Liskerrett Centre has a polytunnel, containers and areas suitable for growing a variety of produce and fruit trees. You will also help support the community store within the centre.

The Coach House has a large polytunnel, small greenhouse, sheds, many containers and a small vegetable area and fruit trees. It is a peaceful area to learn gardening skills, how to use plants in a culinary and medicinal way, designing the garden, companion planting, composting and organic gardening.

At all locations you will be encouraged to focus on areas of interest to you with tutor support.

Our road to wellbeing courses are relaxed and informal, enabling you to improve your wellbeing and mental health, building your self-confidence, and they are a great way to make friends.

Our courses are for anyone aged 19+ who is experiencing or recovering from mental ill-health.

Our courses run one day per week, over 10 to 13 weeks per term. If you miss the start of the course don’t worry, you can join the course at any time.

Entry requirements Progression Liskerrett Community Centre Offsite

Entry requirements

No formal entry requirements

Progression

Level 2 Art Courses

Liskerrett Community Centre

Set up on the site of the former Liskeard Junior School, the Centre opened in 2002.

Owned and managed for the community by the community, the Liskerrett Community Centre is a busy, friendly and vibrant multi-purpose community resource providing a wealth of opportunity, a wide range of services and activities, and a meeting place for people of all ages.

The Centre is open each week day from 9am-5pm and available for hire every day of the week.

We have a vegetarian café, a community garden and art studios that are rented out to local artists.

Offsite

Entry Requirements

No formal entry requirements

Progression

Level 2 Art Courses

Liskerrett Community Centre

Liskerrett Community Centre

Set up on the site of the former Liskeard Junior School, the Centre opened in 2002.

Owned and managed for the community by the community, the Liskerrett Community Centre is a busy, friendly and vibrant multi-purpose community resource providing a wealth of opportunity, a wide range of services and activities, and a meeting place for people of all ages.

The Centre is open each week day from 9am-5pm and available for hire every day of the week.

We have a vegetarian café, a community garden and art studios that are rented out to local artists.

Offsite

Offsite