The group will use its funding order to engage communities of Walsall Sandwell and Birmingham to develop horticulture skills improve physical mental wellbeing and develop a range of soft skills. Through a blended learning approach incorporating online sessions hands on and classroom sessions learners will achieve not only a formal qualification but a raft of softer transferable and practical skills. The courses will also provide gentle exercise and aspects of the course will cover food growing and therefore influence choices within their own personal diet that combined with the exercise brings a positive impact on both physical and mental wellbeing.