This month a village is to get a new sensory garden to aid their health.

Headcorn Surgery will open its sensory garden on Saturday, March 30.

It will be available for the whole community, including the village primary school, local clubs and the surgery’s patients – and will help support wildlife.

It will have areas for children to let off steam, and more peaceful areas for quiet contemplation. It is designed to have wheelchair and pushchair access, with thought given to those with disabilities and sensory impairments.

The garden has been funded by partners at the surgery, by the parish council, and by the generosity of villagers and local businesses – no funding has come from the NHS.

Recently, the NHS withdrew funding for a similar project called Tonbridge Garden Therapy, and run by Dr Richard Claxton, a GP at the Warders Medical Centre in Tonbridge, which had been running for more than a year ago.

The Headcorn garden will open with a children’s Easter egg hunt, and there will be stalls selling locally produced arts and crafts from 10am till 2pm.

The garden is situated just to the left of the surgery in Grigg Lane.