The Red Shed

Providing garden workshops and clubs for people with dementia, and their carers, to improve and enhance well being and alleviate loneliness and isolation.

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

A few happy faces from our Christmas Party. Celebrating another brilliant year @TheRedShedHerts A heartfelt 'thank you' to our wonderful partners & supporters on twitter @svdp_school @SharonStevenage @IrishNetworkStv @StevenageTrust @HertsCommunityF @boroughCouncil @ndarlington

[Nicole Jones @ndarlington31]

Back at the wonderful @TheRedShedHerts meeting with the Stevenage Dementia Involvement Group! Mince pies and great discussions! 😊 🎄

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

@ndarlington31 Really good session today - the group had some really useful feedback. See you in January!

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

@music24_uk Lovely to meet you and welcome you to our very special garden

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

Our monthly Carers Café is open again tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing everyone and welcoming new people along.

[Elspeth Mathie @elspeth_mathie]

📢 PRESS RELEASE @StevenageBC @ARC_EoE
"We worked closely with people living with dementia to create a resource that was accessible and user-friendly, and it was a pleasure helping Stevenage Borough Council put it together.” @UHertsResearch
https://t.co/L20glOgVLV

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

@svdp_school @StevenageBC @ClubStevenage A lovely morning working together, looking forward to seeing the crocuses in bloom next year.

[stvincentdepaul @svdp_school]

Our Children were excited to join with @StevenageBC Lady Mayor, @TheRedShedHerts and @ClubStevenage to mark World Polio day by planting many beautiful purple crocus bulbs #RotaryCrocus

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

We have been working with some beautiful Autumnal flowers this week for our pumpkin arrangements, with some glorious sunny Autumn days to enjoy working on them so far too!
#autumn #pumpkins #dementiafriendly #theredshedgarden

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

We had a great morning today creating stencils ready to jazz up the new shed with @openartbox https://t.co/lII7HjawuJ
#dementiamondays #art #theredshed #dementiaherts #creative

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

Harvesting our delicious vegetables and enjoying the colours, shapes and smells. A real joy for all the senses. @HertsCommunityF #dementia #garden #wellbeing @tnluk

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

Amazing bug hotels created by our visitors today from @RAHAtStevenage. A couple of spiders have already booked in!

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

Thank you @SharonStevenage for your locality budget donation. It is helping us to support local people living with dementia and their carers to get out and about again after lockdown.

[Baroness Sharon Taylor of Stevenage, OBE @SharonStevenage]

It was great to participate in ‘stained glass’ painting with Angie & the ladies. Thank you to Su who is the inspirational founder for writing to me so I could contribute from my locality budget. You can find out more here https://t.co/56u4HBH21X

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

Thank you for taking time to visit us @SharonStevenage it was lovely to welcome you to our dementia friendly garden.

[Baroness Sharon Taylor of Stevenage, OBE @SharonStevenage]

What a delight to visit fabulous Red Shed project in Bedwell. This unique charity deliver gardening & other therapeutic activities for those with dementia & their carers. Because they are based in St Vincent de Paul school grounds, the children benefit from gardening activity too

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

Our greenhouse is 1yr old this week. Thanks to a wonderful donation from @svdp_school we have a great place to grow delicious tomatoes and cucumbers and a cosy home for our succulent and cacti collection! #dementia #wellbeing #stevenage @HertsCommunityF @TNLComFund

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

Looking forward to trying some of these with Open Art Box at The Red Shed Project!

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

Our Let's Get Going! sessions have been busy this week. For a cuppa and catchup with friends in the sunshine or for a little stroll, everyone was happy to be in our safe and friendly #dementiagarden #gettingfitagain #enjoyingeverydaylife Contact us to find out more.

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

We now have some #garden games - Giant Jenga, Quoites and Lawn Lane Bowling. Great to help get people moving after lock down. We already have 20 people booked to visit our #dementiafriendly, #accessiblegarden next week - they're going to have fun! #gardentherapy #wellbeing

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

Thanks to funding from HCF we have started our Lets Get Going program at The Red Shed. Gardening, Arts and Crafts, getting moving and getting together again. For more infomation contact [email protected] #DementiaGarden #OlderPeople #Dementia #Carers

[The Red Shed @TheRedShedHerts]

Getting busy in The Red Shed garden today - it's great to see the volunteers back. We're getting ready for 20th July when we will be opening the garden gates again for people living with dementia and their carers to come along and enjoy our wonderful space #dementia #gardening