Funded by Project Giving Back, the garden is inspired by conversations with women supported by The Glasshouse programme and will be centred around a translucent pavilion designed by Hollaway Studio emerging from the foliage.
The Glasshouse provides horticultural training and employment to women in prison alongside resettlement support as they approach the end of their sentence. The programme has a zero percent re-offending rate, showing how building purpose, self-belief and hope for the future can break the cycle of re-offending. Following the show, the garden will be re-built in a women’s prison in the South of England where it will provide a nurturing space for training and planning second chances for a new community of women.
For more details of the garden, and for the story behind the garden, head to The Gardening Mind in Substack, where the story of the garden and its development will unfold over the next few months.