The Green Hub at Witley.

It is not often you have a meeting in an old stationmaster’s house on a station platform, but Suzanne and I were delighted to meet up with Green Hub at their charity’s headquarters on Witley station. We met with Vanessa Lanham-Day (Chair of the Management Board), Flo Headlam (Patron) and other members of team and heard how Green Hub is a local community charity based in Milford, Witley & Godalming supporting teens (10-18) in Waverley, Surrey and NE Hampshire, who are facing social, emotional & mental health challenges. They provide ‘social therapeutic horticulture’, and they come along to their Green Teens programme for a couple of hours each week for 12 weeks, working in one of their local Green Hub gardens, whatever the weather. The idea is to teach them strategies that they can use for the rest of their lives, based on their ‘5 ways to wellbeing’. It was great to hear how the charity is growing and their enthusiasm to help young people in the local community. They have the capability of helping more young people and details of how to join in can be found on their website. – https://greenhub.org.uk.