Five-star housebuilder Barratt Homes Manchester recently teamed up with Bridge Community Wellness Gardens in Ellesmere Port to help improve their facilities.

Bridge Wellness Gardens is a registered charity based in Ellesmere Port and is a working commercial horticulture farm that brings people together from all parts of the local community and offers a helping hand to those who need it.

The wellness gardens and farm aim to provide a therapeutic environment for people living with mental health conditions as well as those with physical and learning disabilities. Work experience is also available for children and young people who are interested to learning about horticulture and business skills.

Barratt Manchester contributed manual labour worth almost £9,000 which helped to improve the entrance of the farm, as part of the Barratt Legacy scheme.

Over the past year, the Legacy scheme has helped community groups across the North West to improve facilities and activities in local areas.

Neil Goodwin, MD for Barratt Homes Manchester said, “It has been a pleasure working with Bridge Wellness Gardens to improve the appearance of their enterprise.

”The work that is carried out here will encourage positive behaviour in young people in the area and will provide valuable life skills for all who attend.”

Francis Ball, Chairman at Bridge Wellness Gardens said, “Barratt Homes has done a wonderful job in creating our entrance off Mill Lane to such a high standard.  First impressions are important and all our visitors now have a very positive impression of us as they enter our farm. 

“We can now confidently invite more clients/volunteers coping with mental health and learning difficulties to come and spend time at Bridge Wellness Gardens.  Thank you, Barratt Homes for helping us to “grow better lives”. 

For more information on the Barratt Legacy programme, please visit the website at www.barrattlegacy.co.uk.

For more information on Barratt Homes Manchester please visit the website at www.barratthomes.co.uk or call 0844 811 7799.                        

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

1. For further information about Barratt Homes please contact Ruby Harrison on 0116 247 1777 or ruby@unsworthsugden.co.uk
2. Barratt Homes are part of Barratt Developments PLC, a FTSE100 company
3. Barratt Group sold 17,579 homes in the year to June 2018, making it the biggest housebuilder by volume in Britain
4. Barratt was awarded a maximum five star rating for the ninth consecutive year in the 2018 Home Builders Federation Customer Satisfaction Survey
5. Site managers working for Barratt Group won 83 awards for quality workmanship in the 2018 NHBC Pride in the Job Awards. Barratt has won more Pride in the Job awards than any other housebuilder for the last 14 years