Our Services

School visits and hands-on workshops

“Workshops in horticulture and out of classroom learning” - All abilities and Key Stages catered for.

The Yourspace.sutton team work with a number of organisations and schools with out-of-the-classroom learning in work-based skills. We deliver a range of bespoke training, leisure or therapeutic activities tailored to the needs and requirements of participants. We also deliver both accredited and non-accredited courses and qualifications, including City & Guilds Training. We offer a range of high-quality horticultural workshops and courses to learners across the full ability and age range. We also seek to offer progression routes via work placements, volunteering opportunities, further training and qualifications or supervised work with our grounds maintenance delivery team working off-site maintaining the grounds of local schools, churches and residential homes.

Yourspace.sutton delivers tailored workshops for schools in line with Sutton’s ‘Every child’s journey into work matters’ objectives. We actively seek to engage the wider community, and the site and nursery, therefore have to be maintained appropriately to help facilitate the delivery of these programs as a vehicle for our long-term aims and regeneration of the site. The workshops can be curriculum-enriching or can lead to both non-accredited and accredited certification with OCN, Skills for Working Life or Award in Amenity Horticulture qualifications at Level 1 or Entry Level 2/3
as appropriate to each learner. Workshops can complement a range of subject areas on-going programmes of study or offer alternative provision and enrichment opportunities. Activities can be tailored to suit learners from mainstream secondary, special schools and further education colleges. The appropriate staff and individual support needs must support learners.

All Workshops are led by enthusiastic, qualified and experienced horticulturists covering a full range of horticultural skills. Workshops motivate and bring learning to life with all tasks, implementing safe and effective practices
in the workplace. Learners participate in structured workshops targeting specific outcomes and promoting the effective development of transferable work-based skills. Facilities at the Seears Park Nursery site include indoor and outdoor classrooms, poly and shade tunnels, a pond, raised beds, allotments and walk-through gardens, toilets and disabled access. To discuss tailoring visits to your school's needs or for further information, please get in touch with us here.

Social and Therapeutic Activity Placements

Social and Therapeutic Horticulture - the process of using Gardening, plants and horticulture to help individuals develop.

Horticulture and Gardening has a fantastic track record of helping improve people's lives. It offers benefits and opportunities for everybody regardless of age, disability, or background.

The benefits of taking a placement on our gardening projects include:

• A sense of inclusion, community integration, achievement and purpose are all key factors in developing a sense of well-being.
• Get active without strenuous exercise and improve your physical health and mobility in a natural, calm setting.
• Improve your mental health by gaining a sense of purpose and achievement in various horticulture activities.
• A chance to meet, make friends and connect with others –
  reducing feelings of isolation or exclusion.

Acquire new skills in a low-pressure environment, improve your chances of finding employment, and open up pathways.

A unique place where everyone can grow!

Offering various social and therapeutic activities in a safe, inclusive, calm horticultural environment.

Come and be a part of our inclusive community garden project, which:

• Recognises the needs and abilities of each individual
• Enables people of all abilities to get active and improve physical health in a natural setting
• Creates opportunities to acquire new skills so that each person can develop and
  reach their full potential
  • offers a place to make new friends and encourage a sense of inclusion and community integration
• Provides a range of stimulating horticulture activities to improve mental health, well-being and motor skills
  supports young adults, children and people of all ages to engage in nature and horticultural pursuits

Volunteer Opportunities

“Volunteer roles/experience opportunities”

We are currently developing specific roles we will be looking for volunteers to fill at the nursery, but in the meantime, we are desperately looking for general site hands. If you are keen and able to contribute some of your skills and time, we are keen on hearing from you.

We work with various organisations, Sutton EBP, local schools and people from all backgrounds.

We deliver City & Guilds Training and a range of high-quality horticultural courses to learners across the full ability and age range.

We also deliver grounds maintenance contracts for council properties and a school in Merton. The nursery at Seears Park, Sutton, is being developed into a hub for the community to include gated gardens, a café and a gift shop and enable the full range of horticultural skills to be practised or appreciated. Yourspacesutton deliver workshops to schools in partnership with Sutton EBP and the wider community in partnership the site and nursery, therefore has to be maintained appropriately to help facilitate the delivery of these programs as
a vehicle for our long-term aims and regeneration of the site.

Some Examples of activities site hand volunteer and work experience placements would cover include:

• Grounds development, construction and landscaping skills
• Site and grounds maintenance, including Use and maintenance of powered and non-powered equipment.
• Plant stock maintenance, grouping, feeding, watering
  and weeding nursery stock
• Potting up stock and container plants to ensure
  continued growth and health.
• Maintaining beds, borders and raised planting areas
• Propagation
• Seed sowing
• Taking cuttings
• Maintaining optimum conditions
• Maintaining a safe working environment for vulnerable adults and groups with learning disabilities.
• Set up and facilitated workshops for visiting school groups or workshops and task finishers.
• Managing compost media mixes, green waste and compost heaps

Training and Qualifications in Horticulture

Working In Partnership with Yourspace.compost allows us to offer pathways into employment for our service users, volunteers and course learners. Under the supervision and guidance of our experienced team, people are mentored in the real working environment and, where possible, offered paid employment.

Yourspace.compost provide competitive grounds maintenance to local school grounds, residential homes, churches and community spaces. We also maintain private gardens and undertake all Landscaping and gardening
work.

Please get in touch with us if you are interested in supporting these progression pathways and would like a quote to maintain your green space or grounds.

We can tailor a programme of visits to suit all needs, be it a one-off project or a year-round schedule of visits.

Grounds Maintenance Provision

Working In Partnership with Yourspace.compost gives us an opportunity to offer pathways into employment for our service users, volunteers and course learners. Under the supervision and guidance of our experienced team, people are mentored in the real working environment and, where possible, offered paid employment.

Yourspace.compost provide competitive grounds maintenance to local school grounds, residential
homes, churches and community spaces. We also maintain private gardens and undertake all aspects of Landscaping and gardening work.

Please contact us if you are interested in supporting these progression pathways and would like a quote to maintain your green space or grounds.

We can tailor a programme of visits to suit all needs, be it a one off project or a year round schedule of visits.

Private Gardening and Landscaping services (Yourspace.compost)

Offering bespoke gardening services, from regular maintenance to all landscaping services, tailored to your needs.