Sunday 19 July Charity Open Garden & Auction
Posted:13 July 2015
SAVE THE DATE: Sunday 19th July. Every summer the Garden House holds a fantastic and fun event to fund-raise for a local charity, and this year we are supporting the Time To Talk Befriending charity – www.timetotalkbefriending.org.uk
Do come along and visit the garden, and bring your friends to support this really worthwhile local charity (more info below). We will have a variety of stalls selling plants, garden-related items and crafts, and will be serving food all afternoon so drop in for lunch or for tea and a slice of homemade cake.
Plus we will have an amazing auction (starts 3pm) all proceeds go to the charity – auction lots include:
- Villa stay, south east Spain for 1 week, sleeps 8
- Vineyard visit for two – Bolney Wine estate tour plus bottle of wine
- London weekend stay for two – flat in Vincent Square, SW1
- Breakfast or Lunch at Café Rust for two – Preston Road, Brighton
- Garden Group working in your garden/allotment! – morning session
- Garden Group working in your garden/allotment! – morning session
- Villa stay, Pelion Peninsula, Greece for 1 week, sleeps 4
- Sussex Cricket Ground – 2 guest passes for one day, 2015 season
- THE hot Brighton restaurant, 64 Degrees – meal for 2
- Day Spa & Beauty treatments – Treatment Rooms, Brighton
- Hand made paper-cut picture – by local artist Nikki Ward
- Two deluxe photo albums – plus assistance to assemble your photos
- 2-night stay AirBnB bed & breakfast – house in Fiveways, Brighton
- Perennial Plant Collection – grown by plantsman Paul Seabourne
- Garden Consultation and work – 4 hours, with professional gardener
Time To Talk Befriending Did you know?
- That 800,000 older people living in the UK feel chronically lonely?
- That loneliness and isolation is known to be a greater risk to health than smoking?
- That there are 100s of older people living across Brighton and Hove who consider the television to be their main source of company?
- That simply finding time to talk to an older person through a befriending scheme is proven to improve quality of life?
Would you like to make a difference in someone’s life? Do you have a spare hour every week or fortnight? If the answer is YES then please contact Emily (scheme co-ordinator) on 01273 787125 for a volunteer information pack.
Opening Time: 11-6pm. Entrance £2.50 / Children FREE. Please come along and support this very worthwhile charity.
Location: The Garden House, 5 Warleigh Road, Brighton BN1 4NT.
