The Department of Health have just produced their physical activity guidelines. Our NHS Forest sites provide increased access to greenspace for gentle exercise for staff, patients and the local community helping more people to be active on a regular basis. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/Publicati...
The NHS Forest has joined Twitter! Follow us @NHSforest.
National gardener and broadcaster Mr Alan Titchmarsh took part of the ‘greening’ of a historic street, digging in the last of 48 trees that have been planted around the site of the recently rebuilt Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Fitzrovia’s Bolsover Street.
The trees were planted as part of the NHS Forest project, an exciting national programme which aims to improve the health of staff, patients and communities through increasing access to green space on or near to NHS land. The target is to plant one tree per NHS employee, over 1.3 million trees!
The new public health white paper Healthy lives, healthy people: our strategy for public health in England was published by the Department of Health on 30th November 2010.
A £4.2m scheme to plant one million trees over the next four years has been unveiled by the government.
It will see trees planted in urban areas of England that need them most, in the first government tree-planting campaign since the 1970s.
It aims to reverse declines in the rates in the number of trees being planted in towns and cities.
It will be led by Defra, alongside the Forestry Commission and organisations such as the Woodland Trust.
Trees for Cities and the Tree Council will also be involved in the Big Tree Plant scheme.
The NHS Forest will work with partners to plant 65,000 trees as part of the new national tree-planting campaign.
The Coalition Government have announced a new national tree-planting campaign 'The Big Tree Plant'. The campaign commences today on December 2nd and has been launched as part of the Tree Council's National Tree Week (27 Nov - 5th Dec).
A primary school in north London has recently unveiled a new playground with a difference - parts of it you can eat.
The Rotherfield primary school in Islington has transformed part of their outdoor space into an inviting fruit and vegetable 'edible playground'.
School children enjoying their new playground
The Tree Council's Seed Gathering Season -launched on Wednesday 23rd September and going through until 23rd October -is already in full swing, with coordinated events and informal activities taking place all over the country. Events run by the Tree Council's member organisations, it's volunteer Tree Wardens and other supporters, are currently taking place throughout the country (see www.treecouncil.co.uk for details)
The National Health Service is drawing up plans to plant 1.3 million trees on its hospital and health centre lands after research has shown that trees not only improve staff morale but can also speed up patient recovery times.
A group calling itself NHS Forestry – with a logo “growing forests for health” – has already started work on pilot schemes in partnership with the Woodland Trust and the Oxford-based charity Campaign for Greener Healthcare.
A new report from the UK body for public health specialists has found that parks aren't just good fun, they are also good for the nation's health.