Completed Projects

• Eden Sessions 2008. Audience experience and access work
• Golitha Falls. Access review and consultation for Natural England
• The National Tramway Museum. Visitor experience and access report
• The Garden at the Eden Project. User engagement activities
• Routes into Trees. Westonbirt Arboretum, phase 1
• I'DGO Project, a collaborative research linking access to quality of life of older people
• PLANTS. The Eden Project has recently completed a new exhibit.
• Discover Eden. Accessible information for the new Core building at the Eden Project
• Stourhead sensory trail project for the National Trust
• Capital Woodlands, improving London's woodlands for people and wildlife
• By All Reasonable Means, a national publication for Countryside Agency
• Easy Access to Historic Landscapes, a national publication for English Heritage and HLF
• Therapeutic Garden Design at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust
• Community Garden Design and Consultation in local projects throughout Cornwall
• LEAF Community Allotments, Sheffield, developing access plans
• Awakening Senses. A day event with Eden Project as part of the Community Service Volunteers (CSV) 'Making a Difference Day'.
• Kent County Council , testing the evaluation toolbox
• Restoring the Cornish Heathlands with Landlife and English Nature
• The Lost Gardens of Heligan
• Disabled Rambling in Cornwall
• Treloweth School, Redruth in Cornwall
• Community event: Seed Sowing
• Strategic Funding with Black Environment Network and Platform
• Landscape Design for Retirement Securities
• Braille menu trials at Eden
• South Hams: Access to the coast and countryside sites
• Edible Playgrounds
• Bethlem Royal Hospital

Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors (I'DGO) project

The aim of the I'DGO project is to identify the most effective ways of ensuring the outdoor environment is inclusive and accessible, in order to enhance the quality of life of older people. More about I'DGO...

PLANTS

The Eden Project has recently completed a new interactive exhibit for the PLANTS project in collaboration with the Sensory Trust. It is designed to help Eden explain their involvement in the project, and allow Eden visitors to understand the latest technology being used in large scale growing. More about the PLANTS exhibit...

Discover Eden

Creating accessible information for Eden project's new Core education building. Guides to the building and the exhibits will be produced in Large Print, Braille and Easy English. A standard version will be available in Japanese, German and French and copies will be available to download from the Eden and Sensory Trust web sites.

Therapeutic Garden Design - Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

The Sensory Trust have been working closely with the enthusiastic team in Grenville Ward at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, Cornwall to develop a sensory rich therapeutic garden for the ward which cares for elderly post-operative patients.
Read more about this project.

Community Garden Design and Consultation - Pengegon, Camborne, Cornwall

This is a community project initiated by the charity ‘Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change’. The project includes the creation of an adjacent community garden space.

The Sensory Trust has carried out direct community consultation for the garden and has developed the design with the Pengegon Trust to form a flexible and inclusive community space.
Read more about this project.

LEAF Community Allotments, Sheffield

Local Enterprises Around Food (LEAF) engages with community groups through horticulture. Sensory Trust and Countryside Equality Marketing are working on Access Plans for this important community project.
Read more about this project.

Awakening Senses

Awakening Senses was a collaborative project between the Sensory Trust, Devon and Cornwall Constabulary Inclusion officers and the Eden Project. The day was run as part of the Community Service Volunteers (CSV) ‘Making a difference day’ that takes place every year.

The aim of the project was to involve a group of children with various impairments and disabilities from the local schools to share their opinions on the exhibits, facilities and experience of the Eden Project.

Read an article on the Awakening Senses project
Download the full project report (pdf 940k)

Capital Woodlands

This project aims to improve London’s woodlands for both people and wildlife and involves 6 pilot sites. Sensory Trust organised focus group and consultation days with local communities to strengthen links between the woodlands and local people, and to identify potential access improvements. The work will form part of a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Read more about Capital Woodlands.

By All Reasonable Means - Countryside Agency publication

This is a national guide to help site managers improve access to the outdoors. The working title was "Access to the Wider Countryside". The published title will be 'By All Reasonable Means'. Commissioned by the Countryside Agency and the Countryside Council for Wales, the publication was launched in October 2005. Download the publication (pdf 835k)

Easy Access to Historic Landscapes - English Heritage publication

This UK guide aims to help managers and designers improve physical, intellectual, cultural and sensory access to historic landscapes. This guide has been commissioned by English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund, with the support of the National Trust.
Read more about this project and download the publication.

Site evaluation with Kent County Council

The Trust has been working with Kent County Council, and their partner France Nord, to develop site evaluation techniques. This project involves the development and use of techniques from the toolkit and site reviews. The work resulted in a Kent version of the toolkit, disseminated throughout the county.

Restoring the Cornish Heathlands

As part of the English Nature heathland restoration programme, Sensory Trust has helped organise events and initiatives to involve people at a local level, and connect them with their local area. This project has been partnered with English Nature, Landlife, Imerys, and the Cornwall Biodiversity Initiative.
Read more about this project.

The Lost Gardens of Heligan

The Trust carried out an inclusive design review of the site. We also organised access workshops with the staff and volunteers, many of whom are becoming access advisers on site.
Read more about this project.

Disabled Rambling in Cornwall

The Trust helped organise two safe routes for a disabled rambling group. We evaluated routes and liaised with local businesses to ensure accessibility.
Read the press release.

Treloweth School, Redruth in Cornwall

With the Cascade theatre company we coordinated a series of intergenerational workshops for a community arts project.
Read more about this project.

Community Event: Seed Sowing

Together with English Nature, Landlife, the Cornwall Biodiversity Initiative, and Imerys china clay, we organised a community event to sow seeds in an old clay mining area in Cornwall.
Read more about this event.

Strategic Funding with BEN and Platform

We worked with the Black Environment Network (BEN) and Platform on a project which opened up discussion between the three organisations, to exchange advice and knowledge on funding.

Landscape design for Retirement Securities

The Trust developed a planter and circulation strategy for sheltered housing in Merseyside. The sustainable design was developed to enable residents to get involved.

Braille menu trials at Eden Project

In partnership with the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB), and the Eden Project, we piloted Braille menus in the Gallery restaurant at Eden.
Read more about the trials.

South Hams: Access to the coast and countryside sites

Working with the District Council's Coast & Countryside service, the Trust has organised workshops with a range of disability organisations and countryside managers. The aim is to share knowledge and best practice, and to enable managers to develop their sites to make them accessible for people with disabilities, and people who may feel excluded due to lack of information, or transport to the place etc.
Read more about this project.

Edible Playgrounds

Working with Creative Partnerships this project involves schools and community groups. It looks at school grounds to provide enriched learning environments, and to create play and wildlife opportunities for children.

Improving the grounds of Bethlem Royal Hospital for use by local community and hospital users

The Trust has used creative consultation processes to open up discussion between service users, healthcare professionals, designers, carers, and the local community.

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