Staff at St Richard’s Hospital have been gifted a beautiful ‘Wellbeing Garden’

Staff at St Richard’s Hospital have been gifted a beautiful ‘Wellbeing Garden’ as a thank you for their hard work and dedication during the pandemic from a local landscape and garden designer.

Andy Stedman Design, based in Chichester, initially came on board with the project when Love Your Hospital, the dedicated charity for St Richard’s, Worthing and Southlands Hospitals, reached out for his services in 2020 to work on a new design for the existing space.

Sadly, the funding earmarked for the project fell through putting the garden makeover at risk. Andy stepped in with his colleague Marc Morris, both of whom have a very close connection to St Richard’s, with the incredible offer of resurrecting the project almost to the tune of more than £200,000.

Andy and his team made phone calls and posted on social media to call in the biggest of favours from local, national, and even European suppliers and contractors to donate their time, expertise and materials for free to help make this wonderful garden design transition from paper to reality.