Who’s who
Support Volunteers: we have 50 support volunteers who, in teams of six to eight, support roughly 90 supported volunteers.
Supported Volunteers: we support up to 90 people each week. Some volunteers need more support than others but everyone’s contribution is equally valued.
Management Committee: this is made up of Garden volunteers, who meet every six to eight weeks and are responsible for the day to day operating of the Garden.
Board of Trustees: as a registered charity we have a Board of Trustees who meet every two to three months and are responsible for our overall direction and the safe running of the Garden.
See below to meet our trustees.
Everyone is a volunteer –
we are very keen to minimise
any hierarchy in the Garden.
Our Trustees
Isobel Gowan
Chair of Trustees
Isobel Gowan is our Chair of Trustees. She has lengthy experience of voluntary work in the charity sector and following a first career in NHS Leaderrdship spent many years as a leadership coach. She lives locally and enjoys gardening and craft activities as well as keeping fit by swimming, going to the gym and being a grandma.
Chair of Trustees
Dan Andrew
Treasurer
Dan is our Treasurer and tracks and reports on our income and running costs to our Management Committee and Trustees. He is also responsible for our financial policies, the day-to-day controls we operate over our expenditures, both large and small, and our budgeting process.
Dan is a Chartered Accountant and Corporate Treasurer and has lived in Dorking for many years. After qualifying in audit, he worked in commercial finance roles. Today he looks after the banking operations for an international business based in Surrey.
Treasurer
Chris Munford
Trustee
Trustee
Helen McHenry
Support Voluteer
Helen has a wide range of generalist HR experience gained from working for a number of charities. Helen has also been a volunteer herself for a charity.
Helen enjoys the outdoors, in particular walking and running in the Surrey Hills, as well as gardening.
Helen works with the lead for support volunteers to be a sounding board and in the management of support volunteers, as well as providing HR advice.
Trustee
Rupert Taverner
Trustee
Rupert has recently moved to Dorking and was delighted to come across the Patchworking Garden Project. He has always had a passion for gardening and an interest in the benefits it can bring. Rupert originally trained and worked as a Social Worker before qualifying as a Psychotherapist. After many years of working within Social Care and NHS settings he left to set up his own practice where he continues to work. As a newly appointed Trustee to the Patchworking Garden Project he is looking forward to being part of the Project and the community that it has created so effectively over the last decade.
Trustee
Glenn Cornish
Trustee
Trustee
Rebecca Ward
Trustee
Trustee
Charity details
We are a registered charity (Charity No 1162471) and raise all our own funds. We are grateful to the many supporters who have made our success possible.
We have two Open Days a year during Spring and Summer, plus a Winter event when we sell our wreaths. Check out our Facebook Page here or go to the Calendar on this website to see what we are up to.
As a charity we have policies in place so that everyone is clear about how we operate. These are reviewed annually.
Where to find us
Get in Touch
Please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.
info@patchworkinggardenproject.co.uk
Remember to include your phone number in any email
The Garden (formerly Friends Life), Sports Ground, Pixham Lane, Dorking, RH4 1QA
Registered address: 50 Woodlands Road. Little Bookham KT23 4HF