Mend and Tend (formally known as DART & Gardens), enabling you to maintain your home and garden.

Our ‘Mend’ service includes:
- Inside painting and decorating
- External painting
- Wallpapering
- Building shelves
- Putting up curtain rails
- Mending fences
- Installing grab rails
- Installing stair rails
- Repairing doors
- Putting up pictures
- Minor plumbing repairs: Tap washers & Plumbing in washing machines

Our ‘Tend’ service includes:
- General gardening work
- Weeding
- Mowing
- Hosing
- Light pruning
- Hedge trimming

This service is for older people who are living in the Borough of Gosport, disabled or frail and unable to do small jobs and gardening.

£10 per hour for the Mend and Tend service (as of 1 April 2022) – paid directly to your Mend and Tend worker at the end of each visit. A receipt will be issued.

£10.00 per month for administration of the service (not charged for months when you do not use the service) – paid to Gosport Voluntary Action. The fee is to ensure a continuous and reliable service. It also enables us to recruit quality, reliable gardeners/handypersons to provide the service. Payment can be returned by post or paid by BACS if preferred.

To find out more or access the service please contact:

Dawn Ward, Manager on 02392 604682 or dawn.ward@gva.org.uk

Emma May, Co-ordinator on 02392 503871 or emma.may@gva.org.uk

Anyone can make a referral for this service.