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Win A Gardening Bundle For Your Local Care Home Or Hospice With Westland

Westland Horticulture, home to brands such as Big Tom, Boost, Resolva, Unwins, and Kent & Stowe, is excited to announce the New Horizon Fund that will support community garden projects across the UK and Ireland in 2024.

Is your local care home’s outdoor space in need of some love and care to help ensure its accessible to all? At Westland, we believe everyone deserves to get closer to nature, and a thriving garden has a vast array of physical and therapeutic benefits, whatever your level of mobility.

From awakening the senses of touch, sight, and smell with an abundance of thriving plants and flowers, to simply sitting in the fresh air surrounded by beauty and wildlife, everyone deserves to enjoy an outdoor space.

The New Horizon Fund aims to create a greener future for all, and will support community garden projects, from schools, allotments, hospices, and care homes, across the UK and Ireland. The funding will comprise of a collection of gardening essentials from Westland, from compost, seeds, tools, plant feed and much more, to the value of £1,000 or Euro equivalent. Each prize bundle will be individually created based on the project’s needs to help them transform their space.

How to get your local care home involved
If your local care home could benefit from receiving a donation from Westland’s New Horizon Fund to help its outdoor space thrive, nominate them at www.gardenhealth.com/new-horizon-fund.

There will be multiple prize draws throughout the year, in March, June and September, with at least five bundles being awarded at each stage, so there’s plenty of opportunities for your local care home to be gifted a bundle. The sooner you enter, the better chance you have. The final closing date will be 1st September 2024.

Help Westland grow the fund
Growing media, which includes composts, is the No.1 consumed gardening product. With every bag sold of Westland’s New Horizon peat free compost, the fund grows and grows. Every time you buy a bag of New Horizon, you’ll know you’re contributing to community projects that will greatly benefit from an improved outdoor space.

New Horizon Peat Free Organic All Plant Compost
Success in gardening all starts with compost, and with Westland’s New Horizon compost, you can be sure it is great for the garden, and great for the planet. Our relentless pursuit of excellence in ingredients, processes, and quality has resulted in our most environmentally friendly and highest performance compost range ever. It provides everything plants require for optimal growth and health.

The New Horizon compost is our most sustainable variety and is the leading sustainable brand in our growing media category. It’s naturally peat free, it’s 100% sustainably sourced, and helps all plants and nature thrive.

New Horizon has been specially created to be the perfect blend for vegetables, fruits, and flowers. The ingredients start to nourish plants immediately and continue to feed for up to 6 weeks.

Readers can apply here