EVERYTHING in the garden is lovely at a centre for youngsters with mental health issues.

Patients and staff worked together to make the grounds of North End House, in the North End area of Durham, into an attractive place to spend team in.

North End House is one of three centres in the north Durham area – the others are at Chester-le-Street and Consett - run by the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust , which provides mental health services across the region.

Service users worked on the garden with clinical nurse specialist Kathryn Currah and associate specialist Andrew Bull.

The result of their hard work was officially opened by the chairman of the trust, Lesley Bessant, along with the youngsters themselves and their families during a ceremony held today (Wednesday, August 20).

Taking pride of place in the garden is a new summer house that was bought with the £1,000 prize money awarded to Ms Currah after she won a national nursing innovation award.

North End House team manager Gillian Caselaw said: “The new garden is just lovely.

“It offers an outdoor space for both individual therapeutic work and group work to take place.”

The trust’s children and young people’s service provides assessment and treatment for youngsters up to the age of 18 who experience emotional, mental health and neuro-developmental problems including ADHD.