Welcome to our July 2026 newsletter! This month’s edition is packed full of everything that has been going on in our amazing Brightwell Community, plus lots more. Enjoy….

We were delighted to welcome a lovely group of Corporate Volunteers on 13 July from Lloyds Banking Group to help us with planting the Woodstock Homes Multiple Sclerosis pocket garden that was brought to the Centre following the RHS Badminton Flower Show. The team got stuck in with digging and planting, under direction of one of the garden’s designers, Micheal Leech, who also did an epic job of loading and transporting two van loads of flowers, furniture and sculptures from Ba

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Doro’s story of the RHS garden starting from September 2025 to this week…..

After months of exceptional hard work, gardening duo Michael Leech and Gavin Moth opened the Woodstock Homes Multiple Sclerosis Garden in the Pocket Planting section yesterday, and what an opening it was.

We are delighted that, after months of restricted access, our Therapy Garden is now fully open! It all started as a simple project back in March 2025: laying and extending the path, which wheelchair users were finding difficult to use. To cut a very long story short, despite numerous attempts and a lot of different tips and options, a “hoggin” surface simply could not be made to suit our needs.

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We have some wonderful news to share, The Brightwell has been named as a finalist in the BBC Radio Bristol Make a Difference Awards, in the Community Group Award category. We are one of just four finalists, and we are absolutely thrilled.

Many of us will be familiar with the spectacular displays at RHS Chelsea, but from July 2026 there is a wonderful new venue to add to the diary. The RHS Badminton Flower Show, set within the magnificent Badminton Estate in South Gloucestershire, is one of the most exciting developments in the horticultural calendar for years, and, as it turns out, one with a very personal connection to the MS community

We thought that it might be useful to share some of the key slides and notes from the presentation at our AGM, held at the Centre on 28 May 2026