This year I’m back on my bike for the London to Brighton, and I’m hoping to raise some funds for a project that is close to my heart …

The Grange Centre is a remarkable place which supports vulnerable adults with learning and physical difficulties, not only through its wealth of enrichment activities, and practical day to day support, but also through its wonderful grounds. My sister has been a resident for around 30 years and thrives as a direct result of the enrichment the Grange brings to her life.

They have recently installed a large greenhouse in their beautiful walled garden to enhance their learning facilities and enable them to run horticulture skills sessions for the people they support all year round.

Currently the route to the Greenhouse is a mixture of soft uneven soil with slope and aggregate making it inaccessible for the people they support who have mobility issues or use a wheelchair.

They have identified a recycled tyre permeable paving system (Sudstech) which they would like to use to create a path from the entrance of the walled garden to their new greenhouse. This is in keeping with their Greener Grange policy to use recycled materials where possible. The path would need to be 2.5m wide to allow for wheelchairs turning and passing, the length of the path required is 72m.

As part of the project, they would like to have a circular path laid out near the entrance of the walled garden. The people they support will design and make a sun-shaped mosaic to be placed in the centre of this circle. The new path to the greenhouse will lead off from this starting point as one of the rays of the sun.

The light colour of the pathway will help those who are partially sighted to clearly distinguish the safer route to the Greenhouse. We estimate that the cost of the whole project will be around £38,000