Garden for Recovery launched at Chapel Allerton Hospital
Emmerdale Actor Mark Charnock, who plays stroke survivor Marlon Dingle, and award-winning landscape designer and stroke survivor Miria Harris joined stroke patients and staff to celebrate the opening of the Stroke Association’s ‘Garden for Recovery’ at Chapel Allerton Hospital.
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00:00It's really wonderful to be here today and see the garden come to life in this phase
00:05of its journey which has been quite long from Chelsea, 200 miles up to Yorkshire, to its
00:10permanent home here at Chapel Allerton Hospital and that's really, that's just so fantastic.
00:16Landscape designer and stroke survivor Miria Harris, reflecting on the Stroke Association's
00:21Garden for Recovery, which has been transported from the Chelsea Flower Show to Chapel Allerton
00:26Hospital. It was supported by Project Giving Back and has been reconfigured here to support
00:31stroke survivors in their recovery.
00:34I met with many of the patients in the stroke unit here at Chapel Allerton and spoke to
00:39them about what they might want from the garden and all of that has informed the manifestation
00:44that you see here today. It is about different spaces to take a breath, be with loved ones.
00:52Actor Mark Charnock has been supported by the Stroke Association in portraying Marlon
00:56Dingle on Emmerdale. He was at the launch of the garden, which is aiming to inspire
01:00recovery for years to come.
01:02You kind of can guess what you're going to walk into but it kind of takes you by surprise
01:08because you just walk into this little pocket of bliss. In the middle of hospital grounds
01:13you just suddenly walk in and it's just so calming. This is a gift that's going to keep
01:19on giving. It is going to be something that's going to continue to change and grow, come
01:23back with the seasons. It's going to be something that is in this place now probably for decades
01:29and decades and decades, just a place where people can come directly out of where they're
01:34being treated, where they're resting up and just come and have a minute and just reflect
01:38and just enjoy this little Eden.
01:42Surviving from stroke in the context of hospitals, they're busy, intense environments and they
01:47don't often allow that space. It's really important for me that it's delivered on that
01:57and I really hope it continues to do that.