GoodGym x Big Help Out: Helping at the Forever Stars Serenity Garden in Highfields Park

Forever Stars have requested GoodGym Nottingham's help with maintaining their Serenity Garden in Highfields Park. This may involve weeding, digging, planting and other general garden tasks.

The Serenity Garden is located at the far end of the lake near the University Boulevard tram stop.

🧤Please bring gardening gloves

📍 Meet at Serenity Garden, Highfields Park, Nottingham

⏰ We'll meet at 11:00am and aim to be done by midday.

Please read below for information about the Serenity Garden project: After successfully developing the two bereavement suites in the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital in Nottingham, the Forever Stars team set their sights on their third major initiative in 5 years with the launch of the Serenity Garden project. Initial plans were drawn up and the price was estimated at over £1m, it was therefore decided to scale back the project and break the project into four or five stages so that we could make the dream a reality for families and more affordable for the charity. In 2021 despite the impact of the pandemic, the team completed phase one of the Serenity Garden which was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, David Trimble on July 2nd 2021.

The Serenity Garden located in Highfields Park in Nottingham, features two beautiful sculptures commissioned by the charity and designed by Nottingham artist Rachel Carter. The two sculptures; the Fallen Acorn and the Forever Star are a focal point for families as they are able to add their baby's names and date of birth to the sculptures by requesting a petal from the charity.