Charities
Tim is very active in the realm of good causes and The Garland Group support both St Raphael’s Hospice and Article 25, a charity that designs and delivers architectural solutions for those in the greatest need worldwide.
- Article 25
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Tim is a Patron of Article 25, which is an operational UK registered charity that designs, builds, and manages projects to provide better shelter wherever there is disaster, poverty, or need.
Article 25 provides built environment professional expertise working alongside aid organisations, NGOs, and communities around the world. The charity’s mission is to bring experienced, field-appropriate professional skills and academically rigorous research findings to NGOs engaged in building work.
Since its inception in 2006, Article 25 has completed 30 assignments worldwide.
As a complement to their field-based work, Article 25 also collaborates with practitioners, universities, and organisations on research projects targeted towards testing and applying innovative and cost-effective technologies to community-based projects. Recent research workshops have focused on the use of bamboo as a structural material and the role of human urine as a binding agent in the making of mud bricks.
As part of this educational mission, Article 25 has also created the first ever industry recognised Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses in humanitarian architecture.
As the charity grows they hope to build a platform where best practices can be shared and applied across regions and where professionals can discuss, contribute and share skills, knowledge, and new technologies.
For further information, www.article-25.org
- St Raphael’s Hospice
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Tim Garland-Jones is an honorary patron of St Raphael’s Hospice.
Since 1987, St Raphael's has offered the special skills of Hospice care to those facing life-threatening illness living in the boroughs of Merton and Sutton (predominantly Wimbledon, Merton, Sutton and Cheam). The service is completely free of charge, and provides high quality medical and nursing skills, as well as support to family and friends. St Raphael’s fully recognises and respects cultural, ethnic and religious differences and patients of all faiths or none, are welcome at St Raphael’s.
The aim of the nursing and medical staff at St Raphael’s is to achieve real quality at the end of a patient’s life and to allow patients to remain as independent as possible, share their feelings and wishes with their family and attain a dignified death with minimum distress.
In 2007-08 St Raphael’s served 925 patients and their families from the boroughs of Merton and Sutton, through a mixture of in-patient care, home visits, a day centre and bereavement and family support.
St Raphael's Hospice relies heavily upon voluntary contributions and depends upon the generosity of the local community to continue providing a high quality of care.
For further information, www.straphaels.org.uk
