The Quiet Garden Trust
| Motto | "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest" (Mark 6:31) |
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| Founded | September 1992 |
| Founder | Reverend Philip Roderick |
| Registration no. | 1038528 |
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| Coordinates | 51°40′35″N 0°36′23″W / 51.67649°N 0.60626°WCoordinates: 51°40′35″N 0°36′23″W / 51.67649°N 0.60626°W |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Founder Director: The Revd Philip D Roderick Administrator: Mary-Anne Hall Quiet Garden Co-ordinator: Mollie Robinson |
| Mission | To encourage the provision of a variety of local venues where there is an opportunity to set aside time to rest and to pray |
| Website | www |
The Quiet Garden Trust is a non-profit organisation which encourages the provision of Quiet Gardens where people can set aside time for contemplation, prayer and renewal. The opening of the gardens is controlled by the respective owners, and the Trust plays a co-ordinating and resourcing role. There are currently about three hundred Quiet Gardens in eighteen countries, and the idea has grown to encompass quiet spaces in churches, schools, hospitals and prisons. The gardens are open to people of all faiths, for stillness and reflection.
The Quiet Garden Movement started in 1992, founded by Revd Philip Roderick, then the Director of the Chiltern Christian Training Programme in the Diocese of Oxford. The first Quiet Garden was a domestic garden in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, belonging to Geoffrey Cooper, who was The Daily Telegraph’s aviation correspondent.
Roderick is an Anglican priest, a percussionist, an educator and a writer who worked as a trainer in theology and spirituality for both laity and clergy. Originally from South Wales, he was brought up a Methodist, and read Philosophy and English at Swansea University. Many threads are woven into his spiritual experience, including meditation, the monastic tradition and contact with other religions. He was ordained and became a university chaplain, and it was after visiting Christian communities in India and America during a sabbatical in 1992 that he realised the significance in the life of Jesus of withdrawing to a quiet place to spend time in solitude. It was this that led him to found the Quiet Garden Movement later that year.
The Quiet Garden Trust was registered as a charity by the Charity Commission for England and Wales on 21 June 1994.
The Quiet Garden Movement has spread over the past twenty years to encompass about three hundred gardens in many parts of the world, not only in European countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, Finland, Austria, Switzerland and Cyprus, but also in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Brazil, Haiti, Canada and the USA.
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