Gardening for wellbeing - The Derbyshire Benevolent Trust

At least one in four British adults will experience some kind of mental health problem in any one year, according to mental health charity Mind. To ease the symptoms of mental health problems, it is important that we seek help which is appropriate to our own individual circumstances – whether that be through medications, talking therapies or changes in lifestyle and routine. Taking the time to participate in new or existing hobbies, for example, can have a profound impact upon our stress levels. One of the best hobbies to improve your wellbeing is gardening.

Gardening, growing food and the outdoor environment all have a strong and positive impact on our physical and mental health. Research has shown that gardening can help people through periods of difficulty in their lives; it has proven to show significant reductions in depression and anxiety, improved social functioning and resilience and opportunities for vocational development. According to the charity Thrive, gardening can help you get back on top of things and restore balance, it can make you feel happier, more confident and healthier.

Gardening helps because:

It can be great physical exercise – which in turn helps boost your mood by releasing endorphins – our body’s own natural feel-good hormone.
You can work at your own pace and in small steps doing as much or as little as you like.
Regular gardening can help bring a new structure to your life.
You can learn new skills which might be useful in other areas of your life, such as volunteering or employment.
It can provide a great opportunity to meet people if you want to – for example by joining a gardening club or getting an allotment.
Gardening is fun, it can offer an opportunity to explore your creativity.
Tending plants can literally give you a reason to get out of bed in the morning and the satisfaction of knowing that you made it happen.
If you are finding everyday life hard to cope with, gardening outside could even help you take a first step out of the house

Gardening also helps you to achieve the Five Ways to Wellbeing as you:

Connect with others – by sharing your gardening activities or plants with others, joining a Gardening Club or Community Garden, talking with your neighbours.
Become more active – by taking part in gardening outdoors, gaining physical and mental health benefits.
Take notice of the world – being outdoors and experiencing the joys of nature.
Keep learning – develop new skills and gain in confidence.
Give to others – through sharing and supporting others and working as a team.

One of the great things about gardening is that it appeals to a wide range of people – young and old – and can be done in urban and rural areas. If you don’t have your own garden space, there is likely to be somewhere near you that you can enjoy the benefits of gardening alongside other people.

Here are some community gardens from across Derbyshire that welcome new volunteers:

Amber Valley and Erewash

Grow Outside CIC

Belper Permaculture Garden

Shipley Woodside Community Garden

Long Eaton Community Garden

Bolsover, Chesterfield and North East

North Wingfield Community Garden

InSpire Community Garden

Hunloke Community Garden

Derbyshire Dales and High Peak

Darley Dale Community Garden

Serpentine Community Garden

City and South Derbyshire

Hannah Fields Community Garden

Down to Earth Derby

Whistlewood Common

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To do this please follow the instructions in the below links, by choosing your mail provider and adding the email: “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” to your whitelist.

AOL

Add the “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” to your AOL address book:

Click the “Mail Options” menu and select “Address Book”.
Inside the “Address Book” window, click the “Add” button.
Inside the “Address Card for New Contact” window cut and paste “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” into the “Other E-Mail” field.
Make our From address the “Primary E-Mail” address by checking the associated check box to the right of it.
Click the “Save” button.

If the mailing is in your SPAM Folder, you can open the email and click the “This Is Not Spam” button.

Gmail

Add the From address you want to receive mailings from to your Gmail Contacts List:

Click “Contacts” along the left side of any Gmail page.
Click “Create Contact”.
Copy and paste “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” into the primary email address dialog box.
Click “Save”.

If the mailing is in your SPAM folder, check the box next to the mailing and click the “Not Spam” button along the top.

Hotmail/Outlook/Live

Add the From address you want to receive mailings from to your Hotmail Safe List:

Open your mailbox and click “Options” (upper right hand corner).
Click the “Junk E-Mail Protection” link.
Select the “Safe List” link.
Copy and paste “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” into the dialog box titled “Type an address or domain”.
Click the “Add” button next to the dialog box.

If the mailing is in your “Junk E-Mail Folder”, open the email and click the “Not Junk” button.

You should also check that the mailing’s email address is not in your Blocked Senders list. You can find your Blocked Senders list by following the directions above and going to “Blocked Senders List” instead of “Safe List”. If you see the mailing’s from address on this list, select it and click the Remove button.

Mozilla Thunderbird

Add the From address you want to receive mailings from to your Thunderbird Address Book and configure your Junk Mail Controls to white list your address book.

Add an address into your Personal Address Book:

Click the “Address Book” button.
Make sure the Personal Address Book is highlighted.
Click the “New Card” button.
Under the “Contact” tab, copy and paste “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” into the Email dialog box.
Click “OK”.

White list your Personal Address Book:

From the main drop down menu, select “Tools –< Junk Mail Controls..."
This will launch the Junk Mail Controls window that has two tabs: Settings and Adaptive Filter
Under the Settings tab, update the “White Lists” module by selecting Personal Address Book from the pull down menu and then check mark the box next to “Do not mark messages as junk mail”.
Click “OK”.

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From the Edit drop down menu, select “Message Filters”.
Click “New”, and give the new filter a name (e.g. “Whitelist”).
Change the drop down on the left to “sender” and the one in the middle to “is”.
Copy and paste username@domain.com into the box on the right.
Make the bottom two drop downs “Move to folder” and “Inbox”.
Click “OK”.
Make sure that your new filter is located at the top of the Message Filter list so it is run before any spam filter.

Outlook 2003/2007

Add the address you want to receive mailings from to your Safe Senders list:

On the Tools menu, click “Options”.
On the Preferences tab, click “Junk E-mail”.
On the Safe Senders tab, click “Add”.
In the Add address box, copy and paste in username@domain.com and click OK.

If you are using a different version of Outlook you can add the mailers From address to your Address Book. This can be done by opening the email, right clicking the From address, and selecting “Add To Contacts”. You can also access your Address Book via the tools drop down menu.

Yahoo

Set up a filter to redirect the mailing you want to receive in your inbox:

Open your mailbox and click on “Mail Options” (upper right hand corner).
Select “Filters” under the Management column.
Click the “Add” button on the Filters page.
In the “From header:” row, make the drop down “contains” and put the mailer’s from address username@domain.com in the box.
At the bottom of the page Click the “Choose Folder” pull down menu and select “Inbox”.
Click the “Add Filter” button.

If the mailing is in your Yahoo Bulk Folder open the email and click the “Not Spam” button. You should also check that the mailing’s email address is not in your “Blocked Addresses” list. You can find your “Blocked Addresses” list by clicking “Mail Options” and then clicking the “Blocked Addresses” link under the Spam column. If you see the mailing’s from address on this list, select it and click the “Remove Block” button.

Others

The most common way to whitelist an address is to add it to your address book, white list, or safe list. There is no universal way to whitelist an address, so if this is not an option, you will have to consult the help section associated with your email application. They should have instructions on how to whitelist an address there.