The Blackthorn Trust

Blackthorn Trust is a registered charity providing holistic, life enhancing opportunities for people with mental health conditions. We have created a social-therapeutic environment where people can recover through nurture, healing and growth. We offer specialist therapies and workshop activities at our unique facilities which include a large biodynamic garden, craft, kitchen & woodwork studios and therapy rooms. Our work is based on the belief that more than medication is required to affect positive change. Each year we support around 300 local people to manage their ongoing health conditions by enabling them to learn coping strategies that will help them to rehabilitate into the community and live as full a life as possible. Our programmes also aim to reduce social isolation and improve skills which will help with future employability.