Looking Internally: Our Staff Garden

We’ve built the staff garden for many reasons. The first priority when looking at the garden was training the contact centre to help out our customers. It’s a great learning experience for them to get hands-on experience in the garden, learn from some of our more senior members, and then we can pass that information on to our customers.

Another reason to build the garden was to do with staff wellbeing, as it’s really good for your physical health, really good for your mental health and it’s a great way to de-stress. As we’re in an urban area, having that bit of green space is a really good perk for the staff.

We also anticipate it being a really nice social area so a little area where staff can go and have their lunch breaks, morning/afternoon breaks, or to even meet with clients and suppliers.

We wanted the garden to be somewhere relaxing for the staff to go. So the garden promoted well-being and a bit of happiness at work!

We chose the colour scheme to be as relaxing as possible. All the plants chosen include scented ones, tactile ones with soft leaves and some fruit and veg too.

We wanted this garden to be accessible to everyone, giving our staff somewhere they can learn and grow. They even can take that knowledge home and apply it to their own gardens.

We wanted the garden to be as ‘reuse/recycle’ as possible, so we used crates that we already had in the warehouse. All the staff got involved with the painting and construction of the garden, and they’ve also been out there planting it up. So it’s all ready to go now for staff to enjoy!

Scan the QR code to watch our staff garden planting video.