Cotswold House enterprise logo
The patient group at Savernake Hospital’s Cotswold House has been working hard over the past few months to develop an enterprise business, thanks in part to a grant from the Friends of Savernake Hospital and the Community.
Cotswold House is the specialist eating disorder unit at Savernake Hospital, supporting adults (over 18) and young people who are approaching their 18th birthday.
“Blooming, planting foundations and growing for life” is the brand developed wholly by the Cotswold House patients within their Enterprise and Gardening and Craft Group.
Cotswold House plant trolley outside the Friends’ Shop
As Becky Deane, Technical Instructor at Cotswold House explained, “This is a group which strives to promote self-belief and self-worth through empowering individuals to drive the project forward”.
With a generous donation from the Friends to buy, among other things, seeds and gardening utensils, together with donations of equipment from staff and members of the public and a gift voucher from “Community at Tesco” the patients have grown and marketed for sale an array of plants, complete with carefully decorated labels and pots. As well as production and creativity, the patients also take responsibility for the project’s accounting, product sourcing and stock taking.
