Our green social prescribing (GSP) provides inclusive nature-based therapeutic programmes for all – including marginalised communities that experience health inequality, in partnership with local authorities, agencies and hyperlocal organisations in the Thames Valley. We have also worked with the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of GPs to create GSP-specific resources.
Engage underrepresented communities
Create an upstream intervention, aiding health and wellbeing management, for example, for those with early-stage dementia or mild mental health issues.
Build pride and respect for local spaces.
Our work includes finding and applying for funding grants so our GSP interventions, including our curated Walking for Wellbeing programmes, remain free.
For example, we secured funding from the National Academy for Social Prescribing and Reading Borough Council to enable delivery of our Conservation and Walking for Wellbeing projects – both GSP programmes.
The mark of success for us is when we see activities continuing long after our programmes have finished and to know that the women we bought together are still meeting up for a self-organised weekly walk months later. Well, we couldn’t ask for a better legacy, could we?
