Latest News – Charity of the Year

Alzheimer’s Society is announced as Ashwood’s Charity of the Year 2020 – working together to help people affected by dementia. Dementia devastates lives. Someone in the U.K develops it every three minutes and there’s currently no cure. In 2019, 4,348 were living with dementia in Dudley alone. That’s why we have partnered with Alzheimer’s Society, […]

The Brain Tumour Charity is to be Ashwood’s Charity of the Year 2019. 102,000 people in the UK are living with a brain tumour. The survival rate of only 14% is one of the poorest of all cancers and brain tumours remain the biggest cancer killer of children. Lack of funding for research means that […]

Ashwood Nurseries has presented Beacon Centre for the Blind, a local charity dedicated to supporting people living with sight loss, with a cheque for £24,859.16. The money will be used to help fund the care and support offered to blind and visually impaired people at the Beacon’s Independent Living Centre in Sedgley. Beacon was chosen […]

We are pleased to announce that our Charity of the Year 2018 is to be WINGS (Wombourne Special Needs Support Group) which supports children and young people with special needs and of a wide variety of ages and abilities. These provide an opportunity for the children and young people to socialise, make friends and have […]

Ashwood’s Charity of the Year 2017 is to be the West Midlands’ leading sight loss charity the Beacon Centre. The Beacon Centre has been helping local people with sight loss live a fuller, more independent life, for more than 140 years but figures show the numbers of those with visual impairments will only grow in […]

After another very busy Garden Open Day on September 24th we are pleased to announce that the total so far raised for Ashwood’s Charity of the Year has now reached a magnificent £22,077.67 …and it’s still rising! On Saturday we welcomed an amazing 524 visitors to the garden: the weather was kind to us, the […]