Day Services – GARPRO (Northgate Hospital)

GARPRO is a department within Day Services based at Northgate Hospital. Any service user from the Forensic Learning Disability Services can attend GARPRO.

The service offers service users the opportunity to health and fitness and to learn gardening skills.

Activities on offer are:

  • Woodland Project – providing work and training experience in landscape work, planting of trees and shrubs
  • Workshop – tool/machine maintenance, construction of fencing and other timber structures i.e. baskets and wishing wells
  • Nursing Garden – propagation including sewing seeds, taking cuttings and producing hanging baskets. There is also a vegetable garden where we grow fresh vegetables.

How to get referred
Via internal referral system for Forensic LD Services

Contact

01670 394 143

Address

Northgate Hospital Morpeth Northumberland NE61 3BP

Opening Times

Monday 9am – 11:30am (AM) | 1pm – 3:30pm (PM) Tuesday 9am – 11:30am (AM) | 1pm – 3:30pm (PM) Wednesday 9am – 11:30am (AM) | 1pm – 3:30pm (PM) Thursday 9am – 11:30am (AM) | 1pm – 3:30pm (PM) Friday 9am – 11:30am (AM) | 1pm – 3:30pm (PM)

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