Eli Lilly support Fir Tree Lodge

A team of eight staff from the head office of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly spent a day volunteering for SeeAbility’s Fir Tree Lodge. The small residential care home in Tadley helps young adults with a visual impairment and multiple disabilities to develop individual potential through a wide range of creative activities and integration into the local community.

Their challenge was to tidy up the garden ready for winter and plant flowering bulbs. The intrepid team of volunteers spent an industrious day giving the garden at Fir Tree Lodge a complete make-over. After a thorough prune, they replanted pots, painted a fence and put up the newly planted out hanging baskets. They also helped Mike Mulrain, the regular volunteer gardener to build two compost bins from reclaimed pallets.

Karen Hebdon, Registered Manager of Fir Tree Lodge said, “We are so grateful to the staff from Eli Lilly. Without their help we would have struggled to get the gardens ready for winter. We are delighted with the results – It looks amazing. The garden offers vital sensory stimulation for the people who live here and everyone will be able to enjoy the garden so much more now.”

SeeAbility has recently launched a unique virtual sensory gift collection with a range of gardening gifts starting from as little as £10. SeeAbility’s Senses – the gift of discovery ™ gives people the opportunity to purchase a gardening gift for themselves, friends or family and raise essential funds for the charity. Go to www.seeabilty.org/senses for more information.