Thank you for new fountain

(l-r) Matt Muircroft, Bill Bulloch and David Muircroft with the new fountain in the Living well with Dementia garden

Matt Muircroft and Bill Bulloch tend to Motherwell’s ‘Living well with Dementia garden’ to say thank you to NHS Lanarkshire’s memory service nursing staff, for the care given to their late wives Julie and Isobell.

The garden, found at the back of the Airbles Road Centre, provides a safe stimulating environment for those living with dementia and their carers.

The nursing team provided the inspiration and design for the garden and sourced funding to see it completed.

Matt said: “One Saturday afternoon, my daughter brought me down so we could put some more water in the fountain. She said she would go and do it if I could sit in the car with the baby.

“She came back crying and told me the water feature had been vandalised.”

Thanks to a donation from Gouldings Garden Centre, an identical fountain was erected, in time for Dementia Awareness Week.

Bill said: “I would like to thank the garden centre for their generosity. We had been fundraising to replace the fountain; however we will now donate the money towards something additional for the garden.

“Helping the staff out with the garden is a very personal project for us, we consider it as being payback for the help that our wives were given.”