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    Help spread the word about LandWorks – and win a garden be...

    13 August 2025 – We want to increase the number of people who know about and support LandWorks. Community support is vital to LandWorks ongoing success – as advocates, volunteers, customers, donors and for all the…

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    Winning the Charity Awards – one year on

    8 August 2025 – When LandWorks won the ‘Overall Award for Excellence’ at the Charity Awards in July 2024, it marked a major milestone  ̶  not just in recognition, but in momentum. “The timing couldn’t have…

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    Summer Bumper Special

    Hello, It’s the summer holidays. South Devon is beautiful, sunny and bustling. People are just popping in to visit LandWorks, non-stop! Often, they completely miss the shop and start wondering around the site looking lost (we…

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    The general synopsis

    Hello, There’s a warning of gales… I thought I was awakening to the shipping forecast (I normally do). I wasn’t, I was lost, dreaming. Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire. But it was seagulls shrieking outside that…

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    It’s gonna be a long walk home…

    Hello, “Chris lad, what you don’t understand is, it’s a long, long way from here to there”, Jay 2014. I (helpfully) got a Bruce Springsteen song stuck in my head… Long Walk Home Jay was exposing my naive…

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    Red 1 to Red 2 over

    Hello, Last weekend the LandWorks team, trainees, graduates, trustees, supporters and volunteers were all out supporting a lovely event held in aid of LandWorks. It was a weekend open garden, raising funds for the charity, held…

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    Sandridge Park Open Gardens raises £20,000 for LandWorks

    5 June 2025 – An Open Gardens weekend at the Sandridge Park estate, held on Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June 2025, was a resounding success, raising an incredible £20,000 in support of LandWorks. Over…

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    Get ahead

    Hello, The sun is out, the garden team are muttering about a drought, and I am going around urging people to wear a hat (incl me). “Get ahead, getta hat” is my latest encouragement! “Get ahead,…

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    Golden legacy brings jewellery making to LandWorks

    21 May 2025 – LandWorks is excited to announce the establishment of a new Jewellery workshop, thanks to a generous donation of jewellery making equipment which has found its way to us via the Worshipful Goldsmiths’…

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    The art of log stacking

    Hello, You find me busy doing something that we do a lot. The record is 5 in one day, showing people around LandWorks. The ‘follow the brolly’ LandWorks tour is the same for everyone, whether it…

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    Believer

    Hello, We have learned a lot over 12 years. Everyone who arrives here has much in common, but also, we have discovered the importance of listening to and understanding an individual’s story. Nobody is the same….

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    Dignity

    Hello, Essentially what we do at LandWorks is support people to re-discover who they were before getting into trouble (back then), and before they got involved in the criminal justice system. So many people coming here…