{"id":167306,"date":"2025-06-08T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167306\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T10:03:09","slug":"volunteers-create-mental-health-wellbeing-garden-in-maidstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167306\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers create mental health wellbeing garden in Maidstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;This official opening not only celebrates our sensory garden, but also showcases the extraordinary spirit of our community and the commitment of our volunteers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust collaborated with Kent Wildlife Trust to conduct thorough wildlife surveys, revealing the area&#8217;s ecological diversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The garden is a &#8220;mosaic of textures, vibrant colours, soothing sounds, and serene wellness spaces, all designed to promote healing and recovery&#8221;, according to the trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Students from Mid Kent College also joined the volunteering team with the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kirsty McInnes, charity and volunteers manager, said: &#8220;The feedback we&#8217;ve received has been overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Many patients and their loved ones find this space calming and enjoyable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added: &#8220;This official opening not only celebrates our sensory garden, but also showcases the extraordinary spirit of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-167306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114647178044321842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}