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.
“This garden transformation fits into a programme of work supported by the charity dedicated to improving outdoor facilities for patients and staff across all our hospitals. It has created a calm and tranquil space for staff at St Richard’s to spend time in away from their working environments. The biggest thank you to Andy Stedman and his team for getting this project back on track and to the many suppliers and contractors who supported it to completion. This truly will be a legacy to staff who went above and beyond for us all during the pandemic and to those who worked from the heart to create it.”
The garden is now open to staff and there will be an official opening of the new space on 5 November.

A huge thank you to the following who made this garden possible:
Talasey (porcelain paving)
All Green Group (clay pavers, aggregates and cement)
In-Lite (lighting)
Jewsons in Chichester (cement/plant hire)
Fordingbridge (Pegolas)
Mobilane Europe
A Place In the Garden (planters)
Viridis Plants (all plants)
City Irrigation (irrigation system)
South Coast Skips (Skip Hire)
Covers Chichester (Timber Featheredge/fixings)
Arbour Landscape Solutions (grout, primer and tile spacers)
Feel Good Films (videography)
Berni Visual (photography)
Paul Cameron Landscapes
Groundwave Ltd
Utopia Landscapes Ltd
Gibbard and Sons Ltd
Ko Plumbing and Heating Ltd
J&H Contruction Ltd
Wes Landscaping and Property Solutions Ltd
Outside Inside Garden and Property Maintenance Ltd