Tannaghmore Gift of Garden furniture Just in Time for Spring!

AMH New Horizons Craigavon and Banbridge service at Tannaghmore Gardens, in Craigavon County Armagh has had a long-standing connection with Craigavon Area Hospital’s Bluestone Unit, the Southern Health and Social Care Trust’s acute mental health inpatient care facility. 

AMH New Horizons has been providing services to local people with mental health needs on the Tannaghmore site since 1999.  Offering a range of training programmes and activities to support local people in their recovery from mental ill health.  AMH actively promotes positive mental health and wellbeing and their clients benefit from Vocational, Life Skills and Employment training tailored to suit their needs. In Tannaghmore the clients also run a fully functioning garden nursery which is open to the public where visitors can buy a range of plants, shrubs and trees.

Colin Loughran, AMH New Horizons Service Manager said,

“AMH has enjoyed a close working partnership with the Craigavon Area Hospital Bluestone Unit for many years, working collectively to support and benefit our mutual clients.  Staff on both sites work closely to aid recovery and care for people. Down the years’ our Tannaghmore service has made purpose built furniture and supplied a range or bedding plants, trees and shrubs to enhance the hospital, inpatient environment experience”.

Jenny Lee Simms from Craigavon Area Hospital’s Bluestone Unit said, “We are so delighted with our new Jack and Jill seats, picnic benches and planters from AMH at Tannaghmore. We are so excited to improve our existing space and also to create new outdoor spaces for our patients, families & staff. Just in time for spring!”

For further information on this service please contact Colin Loughran, AMH New Horizons Service Manager on 0786 6384123