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BBC News
18-06-2025
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Chelsea show garden moved to Plymouth centre for homeless
A garden which won awards at this year's Chelsea Flower Show has found a new home in Plymouth. The Pathway Garden was inspired by the theme of homelessness and won the Silver-Gilt Medal and Best Environmental Innovation has been installed at the Shekinah centre - a charity which supports homeless people in Plymouth. John Hamblin, the charity's chief executive, said the installation had been "transformational" for people who visit. 'Forever home' He said: "People who come here say what a beautiful place to come and sit and just be, and be present."Allon Hoskin, the co-designer of the garden, said it was designed to show the path as a metaphor for a journey out of homelessness." You start with quite a complex paving system which signifies confusion maybe, difficult journeys, boulders, it's a narrow path," he said."It opens up and as you turn the corner and go towards the bench and the water bowl it signifies symbolically rest and sustenance."Everything in the garden is recycled and upcycled and the fact its forever home is in Devon is wonderful."
BBC News
02-06-2025
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Chelsea Flower Show garden donated to Devon charity
A homelessness charity in Devon has been given a garden which featured at the Chelsea Flower was selected to have the Pathway Garden once the show had finished on 24 May and a team has begun to install it in garden was inspired by the work of UK-wide homelessness charity Pathway and was selected for two awards at the 2025 flower show. Shekinah CEO John Hamblin said he was "incredibly proud" the charity was chosen to have the garden. Built by Modular Garden Limited, the company said it was sustainably designed with the help of people who had experience of garden won the Silver Gilt medal and the Environmental Innovation Award at the show which took place between 20 and 24 May. The garden will form part of a permanent community space at Shekinah in Plymouth thanks to a grant from Project Giving Back, which supports charitable causes through gardens at the flower show. "We are incredibly proud to be part of this inspirational project," said Mr Hamblin. "The Chelsea Flower Show offers a national platform to raise awareness of homelessness and health and inequalities and celebrate the journeys of those rebuilding their lives and health with dignity and purpose."This partnership truly reflects what Shekinah is all about."
