And in what's now a peaceful, flower-filled garden, I sat down with Andre Main, who oversees the charity's helpline and used to pick up the phones herself.

So there's 630,000 people living with epilepsy in the UK.

About 70% of them are controlled with medication.

But for that 30% that aren't, there's still that constant worry, I guess, that they don't know when the next seizure is going to happen.

And just the thought of that can have other ramifications.

Mental health issues, not wanting to go out because they're scared that a seizure might happen in public.

How has epilepsy in society changed from when this plot of land that we're sitting on was a colony which was both to help people but potentially to keep them away or keep them out of society and

I'd like to think that the work that we do helps promote awareness, helps more people understand about the condition and makes people a little bit less judgmental.