About Family Action Family Action is a national charity marking its 150th anniversary in 2019. Family Action is committed to building stronger families by delivering innovative and effective services and support that reaches out to many of the UK’s most vulnerable people. We seek to empower people and communities to address their issues and challenges through practical, financial and emotional help. www.family-action.org.uk About idverde idverde is Europe’s leading provider of grounds maintenance services and landscape construction projects, with staff operating throughout the UK, France and Holland. We offer a holistic range of services to support the creation, maintenance and management of landscapes throughout the UK, working with both public and private sector clients to deliver bespoke solutions for each project’s unique challenges. www.idverde.co.uk Registered as a Charity in England & Wales no: 264713. Registered as a Charity in the Isle of Man no: 1206. Registered Company Limited by Guarantee in England and Wales: 01068186. The Family Monsters Garden celebrates 150 years of Family Action supporting families across the country and idverde's 100 years of creating and maintaining landscapes for the benefit of local communities. The garden shows the pressures faced by every family and the journey families take to face these challenges. From financial problems to health and wellbeing issues, and from lack of time together to problems with communication and resolving disputes, the garden represents the range of pressures faced by families in Britain today. The journey to bringing these hidden issues out of the dark and into the open, so that they don’t become overwhelming, can be one of secrecy, shame and isolation, with pressures and progress obscured and hard to resolve. The journey through this garden leads to a family space where people can come together to reflect, get their pressures out in the open and gather strength to face them together. The pool of clear water offers reflection and perspective. For 150 years Family Action have been helping families across the country who are struggling to cope with everyday pressures, from money to health, to work to lack of time for family. To mark our 150th anniversary Family Action is starting a national conversation about family pressures – our family monsters – to help all families to talk about these and face them together. Nearly 38 million people in Britain admit their close family faces pressures from time to time. What matters most is how we deal with those pressures not that these exist in the first place – just talking about our family monsters will help make them smaller. As every family can face monsters, any family might need extra help from time to time. Visit www.familymonstersproject.com for support or to find out more and join the conversation using #myfamilymonsters. Alistair shares his own Family Monster that inspired the garden The Family Monsters Garden is personal to me because I have my own family monster, which I’ve previously shut away. My life, and importantly that of my family, turned upside down two days after we scooped a Gold Medal for Mind Trap at Chelsea 2017. I had my first of many seizures in the back of a black cab. I was diagnosed with epilepsy, something I suspect was presenting itself some time before; I’d have moments I’d forget, strange sensations and feelings – I’d put it down to the everyday strains from working hard, bringing up a young family etc. Despite being told “everything will be alright, it’s a manageable condition” – it doesn’t help when it’s raw, when the anxiety that accompanies it is a huge obstacle to overcome. For me it’s the toughest and hardest period of time I’ve ever experienced. It’s been a rollercoaster of a ride, some days good, others not so. But my monster, whilst not tamed just yet, is perhaps a little smaller and is getting more manageable. I have a support network that gets me through, I find that talking about my problems and anxieties with the condition helps. I know I’m not alone as research for Family Action found that when asked about common family pressures, health and wellbeing was one of the main ones. Designed by Alistair Bayford CMLI Alistair Bayford is a Chartered Landscape Architect with diverse and wide ranging experience in the design, build and management of landscapes and public realm. His professional career started at Liz Lake Associates in 2004, progressing on to a Project Management role at Lee Valley Regional Park Authority in 2009 overseeing a number of Olympic related projects within Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the Olympic Fringe. Alistair joined idverde in 2012 as Park Manager for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park responsible for the mobilisation of the 10 year maintenance contract achieving a prestigious BALI Principal Award in 2015. His current role as Operations Director sees him leading landscape construction throughout London and the South East, specialising in park improvement and public realm projects winning nine BALI Awards in the past six years. He has previous experience designing and building at RHS Shows with three gardens to his name including; 2004 – RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show ‘Take time to’ 2006 – RHS Chelsea Flower Show ‘Caged’ 2007 – RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show ’23 Paved Green Terrace’ In 2017 Alistair lead idverde’s involvement at RHS Chelsea Flower Show with the completion of MindTrap, designed by Ian Price, which achieved a Gold Medal. Alistair is a current Director of The Parks Alliance, the voice of UK Parks, acting as Vice Chair from 2016-2018. Twitter and Instagram @alistairbayford Astrantia 'Buckland' Digitalis purpurea 'Snow Thimble' Pinus nigra Family Monsters Garden How to contact us Family Action www.familymonstersproject.com 020 7254 6251 Find us on social media @family_action idverde www.idverde.co.uk 02476 405660 Find us on social media @idverdeuk
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About Family ActionFamily Action is a national charity marking its 150th anniversary in 2019. Family Action is committed to building stronger families by delivering innovative and effective services and support that reaches out to many of the UK’s most vulnerable people. We seek to empower people and communities to address their issues and challenges through practical, financial and emotional help.
www.family-action.org.uk
About idverdeidverde is Europe’s leading provider of grounds maintenance services and landscape construction projects, with staff operating throughout the UK, France and Holland. We offer a holistic range of services to support the creation, maintenance and management of landscapes throughout the UK, working with both public and private sector clients to deliver bespoke solutions for each project’s unique challenges.
www.idverde.co.uk
Registered as a Charity in England & Wales no: 264713. Registered as a Charity in the Isle of Man no: 1206.Registered Company Limited by Guarantee in England and Wales: 01068186.
The Family Monsters Garden celebrates 150 years of Family Action supporting families across the country and idverde's 100 years of creating and maintaining landscapes for the benefit of local communities.
The garden shows the pressures faced by every family and the journey families take to face these challenges. From financial problems to health and wellbeing issues, and from lack of time together to problems with communication and resolving disputes, the garden represents the range of pressures faced by families in Britain today. The journey to bringing these hidden issues out of the dark and into the open, so that they don’t become overwhelming, can be one of secrecy, shame and isolation, with pressures and progress obscured and hard to resolve.
The journey through this garden leads to a family space where people can come together to reflect, get their pressures out in the open and gather strength to face them together. The pool of clear water offers reflection and perspective.
For 150 years Family Action have been helping families across the country who are struggling to cope with everyday pressures, from money to health, to work to lack of time for family.To mark our 150th anniversary Family Action is starting a national conversation about family pressures – our family monsters – to help all families to talk about these and face them together.
Nearly 38 million people in Britain admit their close family faces pressures from time to time. What matters most is how we deal with those pressures not that these exist in the first place – just talking about our family monsters will help make them smaller.
As every family can face monsters, any family might need extra help from time to time. Visit www.familymonstersproject.com for support or to find out more and join the conversation using #myfamilymonsters.
Alistair shares his own Family Monster that inspired the garden The Family Monsters Garden is personal to me because I have my own family monster, which I’ve previously shut away. My life, and importantly that of my family, turned upside down two days after we scooped a Gold Medal for Mind Trap at Chelsea 2017. I had my first of many seizures in the back of a black cab. I was diagnosed with epilepsy, something I suspect was presenting itself some time before; I’d have moments I’d forget, strange sensations and feelings – I’d put it down to the everyday strains from working hard, bringing up a young family etc.
Despite being told “everything will be alright, it’s a manageable condition” – it doesn’t help when it’s raw, when the anxiety that accompanies it is a huge obstacle to overcome. For me it’s the toughest and hardest period of time I’ve ever experienced. It’s been a rollercoaster of a ride, some days good, others not so.
But my monster, whilst not tamed just yet, is perhaps a little smaller and is getting more manageable. I have a support network that gets me through, I find that talking about my problems and anxieties with the condition helps. I know I’m not alone as research for Family Action found that when asked about common family pressures, health and wellbeing was one of the main ones.
Designed byAlistair Bayford CMLI
Alistair Bayford is a Chartered Landscape Architect with diverse and wide ranging experience in the design, build and management of landscapes and public realm.
His professional career started at Liz Lake Associates in 2004, progressing on to a Project Management role at Lee Valley Regional Park Authority in 2009 overseeing a number of Olympic related projects within Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the Olympic Fringe.
Alistair joined idverde in 2012 as Park Manager for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park responsible for the mobilisation of the 10 year maintenance contract achieving a prestigious BALI Principal Award in 2015.
His current role as Operations Director sees him leading landscape construction throughout London and the South East, specialising in park improvement and public realm projects winning nine BALI Awards in the past six years.
He has previous experience designing and building at RHS Shows with three gardens to his name including;
2004 – RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show ‘Take time to’
2006 – RHS Chelsea Flower Show ‘Caged’
2007 – RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show ’23 Paved Green Terrace’
In 2017 Alistair lead idverde’s involvement at RHS Chelsea Flower Show with the completion of MindTrap, designed by Ian Price, which achieved a Gold Medal.
Alistair is a current Director of The Parks Alliance, the voice of UK Parks, acting as Vice Chair from 2016-2018.
Twitter and Instagram @alistairbayford
Astrantia 'Buckland'
Digitalis purpurea 'Snow Thimble'
Pinus nigra
FamilyMonstersGarden
How to contact usFamily Actionwww.familymonstersproject.com 020 7254 6251Find us on social media@family_action
idverdewww.idverde.co.uk 02476 405660Find us on social media@idverdeuk
TreesBetula nigraBetula papyrifera ‘K
enaica’ Betula pendulaPinus nigra
Shrubs
Buxus sempervirens
Cornus stolonifera ‘Flaviram
ea’C
orylus avellanaH
ydrangea quercifolia Viburnum
opulus
Gra
ssesA
nemanthele lessoniana
Hakonechloa m
acraLuzula niveaM
olinia ’Transparent’
Herb
aceous Perennia
lsA
canthus spinosusA
lchemilla m
ollisA
mm
i majus
Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Munstead W
hite’A
ster divaricatusA
strantia ‘Buckland’D
igitalis purpurea ‘Snow Thim
ble’Epim
edium x youngianum
‘Niveum
’Euphorbia am
ygdaloidesG
alium odoratum
Geranium
x cantabrigiense ’St Ola’
Iris siberica ‘White Sw
irl’Lam
ium orvala ‘A
lbum’
Myrrhis odorata
Polygonatum odoratum
Tellim
a grandifloraThalictrum
delavayi ‘Album
’
FernsA
splenium scolopendrium
Dryopteris affinis
Polystichum setiferum
Bulb
sN
ectaroscordum siculum
Wa
ter Pool
Still, perfectly clear w
ater pool, lined with
cobbles providing a sense of clarity and
perspective. The cobbles represent our
‘monsters’ m
ade sm
aller and smoother.
Bench
An oak bench
suspended over two
boulders provides a place to sit and com
e together to reflect and gain perspective in a
calm and tranquil space.
Plants
Planting underlying the coppice is
predominantly green
with flushes of colour
and diversity, using native and non-native
to represent the diversity of our fam
ilies.
The Pine
Large gnarly Pinus nigra is sym
bolic of the older generation w
ithin a fam
ily unit.
The Fam
ily Monsters
Ga
rden sits in a
n am
oebic
footprint, ha
s no definitive
shap
e and
is unbound
. This rep
resents the d
iversity of our fam
ilies, tha
t no one fam
ily is the sa
me a
nd tha
t the m
onster they hide w
ill be
persona
l to them.
SuppliersPlant List
Trees
Hillier N
urseries
ww
w.hillier.co.uk
Plants
Kelw
ays Plants
ww
w.kelw
ays.co.uk
Corten
Outdoor D
esign
ww
w.outdoordesign.co.uk
Boulders, Cobble and
Gravel
CED
Stone
ww
w.cedstone.co.uk
Resin Bound Surfacing
CC
E Surfacing
ww
w.cce-surfacing.co.uk
Turf
Lindum Turf
ww
w.turf.co.uk
Soils & M
ulch
Bourne Am
enity
ww
w.bourneam
enity.co.uk
Bench
Woodcraft U
K
ww
w.w
oodcraftuk.co.uk
Logs
Wilby Tree
ww
w.w
ilbytree.co.uk
Bould
ers
All of different shapes, sizes, colours and
textures the boulders sym
bolise our ‘m
onsters’.
The Coppice
Birch and Hazel
coppice, create partial enclosure, shelter and refuge. The pioneering nature of the vegetation
represent children, teenagers and young adults in a fam
ily unit.
Sponsored and built by
Willow
Sculpture
Created by Fam
ily A
ction's ESCA
PE project in Sw
affham. They've
also grown som
e of the plants in the
garden.
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