Sigrids Garden

Founded in 2008, Sigrids Garden is a charity based in Emmen, Netherlands working on health, mental health.

Sigrids Garden is a non-profit drop-in centre for living with and after cancer, based in Emmen and Coevorden in the Drenthe region of the Netherlands. It was founded in 2008 by the parents of Sigrid Boer, who died of cancer that year, and is run largely by volunteers. The centre offers people with cancer, their relatives, friends and bereaved people a listening ear, peer contact, conversation with volunteers and a range of activities, including yoga, creative and relaxation activities, aquafit, themed meetings and lectures. Psycho-oncology consultations by a psychologist are held weekly in the centre, in cooperation with Het Behouden Huys. Volunteers also staff a support role inside the Treant hospitals. The organisation is governed by an unpaid board, is an ANBI-registered public-benefit institution and is affiliated with IPSO, the umbrella body for drop-in centres and psycho-oncology centres.