Haskins Garden Centre in Ferndown raises more than £5,500 for Autism Wessex

The team at Haskins in Ferndown presented Autism Wessex with a cheque for £5,899.45 this week. All money raised from events held at the Ferndown centre throughout 2018 and collected from Haskins’ ‘Wishing Well’ was donated to the charity.

Autism Wessex was the garden centre’s nominated ‘Charity of the Year’ in 2018. The charity provides high quality specialist services for adults and children affected by autism throughout Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset. According to statistics there are around 700,000 people affected by autism in the UK.