# Forfar Open Garden

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC045844
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** July 28, 2015
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC045844


## Contact

- **Address:** 36 Lochside Road, Forfar, Angus
- **Postcode:** DD8 3JD



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** We support regular visits from local primary schools, nurseries, care homes, a home schooling group and the Change Mental Health support group growing fruit, veg and plants. Our aim is to positively impact socially isolated individuals, those with a physical, mental health disability, those with special needs through involvement in the therapeutic benefits of gardening and nature-based activities

**Objectives:** To advance the provision of support for those who are disadvantaged by reason of physical or mental disability in Forfar and environs to promote the medium of gardening as a healthful and therapeutic activity and to develop an educational aspect for appropriate clients to provide a locus for gardening activity in Forfar that will attract support from the community for the above aims to relieve pressure on formal parts of the health and social care systems by the provision of charitable alternatives for treatment





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Angus
- **Geographical spread:** A specific local point, community or neighbourhood






