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Eco-retreat inOxfordshire Organic Walled Garden

Written by Lynn Fotheringham

Wednesday, 04 June 2008

New ‘insideout’ retreat for staff and clients at Bridewell Organic Gardens InsideOut, a Cumbria-based garden office company, have just completed a new garden room for staff and clients at Bridewell Organic garden and vineyard, the award winning West Oxfordshire charity. Bridewell’s clients, who suffer from a range of complex mental illnesses from depression to schizophrenia, are encouraged to help tend the garden and vineyards. Their involvement forms an important part of the therapeutic process. More than twenty staff and clients previously used an old garage to relax in. So the new room, with its log-burning stove, is a very welcome addition. Clients and staff now have a peaceful, attractive place overlooking the garden to sit, have a cuppa and admire their hard work. Built in just two weeks, the new room is eco-friendly by design. Gordon Smith, InsideOut’s architect explains, “We’ve constructed the room from low-toxicity materials to reduce the building’s environmental impact. It is durable, low maintenance, has an environmentally responsible finish and it’ll last for a long, long time.” Lynn Fotheringham and Gordon Smith have been building garden offices and granny flats since 2002, using their own traditional timber frame building system. “The concept is to create good looking, fully functioning outdoor living and working spaces,” says Gordon Smith. "Our buildings are about as far from garden sheds as you can get!" Bridewell General Manager Alex Taylor commented, “We chose InsideOut because of their professional response. And because their buildings were such high quality Lynn and Gordon immediately struck us as people who understood what Bridewell’s all about. Our judgement has proved correct... everyone at Bridewell thinks the new building is fantastic. It’ll make a major difference to our facilities and to how people experience the garden.” From InsideOut’s point of view, the project has been a rewarding one. “Bridewell allowed us to fully indulge our concerns for the environment, and the respect we like to give a building’s surroundings. Working with an organisation that bases everything it does on organic principles has been entirely in tune with what we’re all about”, explains Lynn Fotheringham, managing director. InsideOut designs and builds to a high standard of comfort. Rooms are beautifully finished using environmentally friendly larch cladding, grown in carefully managed woodland in Scotland and Northumbria. Wherever possible, the company uses materials manufactured in the UK, with lower levels of industrial energy, chemicals and transport. All this helps customers reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Information for editors The charity’s organic vineyard, one of only two in the UK, won an award for its 2004 vintage. A grant from Oxfordshire County Council and Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust funded the new building.

For more information on Bridewell please visit www.bridewellorganicgardens.co.uk. For more information on Inside Out please speak to Lynn Fotheringham on 01524 737999, www.iobuild.co.uk

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