Steve Oram from The People's Trust for Endangered Species, has written a short blog on how beneficial orchards can be in healthcare settings. The blog also discusses some examples of where this Orchards have been planted and how you can get involved.
Sustainability day 2018 is coming up! Just as we're hoping for spring and some glimpses of sun, this is a great opportunity to join colleagues across the country to improve NHS greenspaces around the UK. Every year on NHS Sustainability day we encourage our NHS Forest sites to plant two trees at 2pm, somewhere prominent on their site.
Vote for our fantastic wild project to help young children and families build healthy lifestyles, click here to vote.
Voting is quick: you need to register with the Aviva Community Fund and then you have 10 votes to allocate. They can be all allocated to the same project. In order to receive the funding, we need to gather as many votes as possible.
Published today in a special Green Infrastructure edition of Town & Country Planning, the journal of the TCPA, the NHS Forest's own Ben Williams argues the case for a shift in thinking in the public sector away from green space as a burden on an increasingly pressured public purse, towards embracing its potential as an integral part of the solution.
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare was awarded a National Lottery grant to continue their work in Marston, Oxford ran a series of intergenerational events throughout 2017 to improve community engagement. We have led a number of walks with local schools, a care home, over 50s club and members of the community. The first, was followed by a “bring and share” lunch in the scout hut whilst the other involved a series of workshops with the local school to conserve the local swift population. The project involved hundreds of local members of the community,
We are pleased to be able to announce that the NHS Forest will be supporting the "Making Local Woods Work" project, funded through the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund, to help woodland social enterprises to understand, evaluate and communicate their impact on people's health.
Thanks to sponsorship funding from The Great Outdoor Gym Company, staff and volunteers from Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals (NNUH) came together on NHS Sustainability Day 2017 to plant eight trees to mark the hospital's commitment to sustainability.
NNUH has joined NHS organisations across the country in projects and activities which celebrate good environmental practice in the health service.
March’s squally showers and whipping winds thankfully died down for this year’s NHS Sustainability Day. In fact, 23 March dawned optimistically sunny and distinctly Spring-Like, which was very welcome as the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's new head of operational estates, Claire Hennessy, was planting two new lime trees as part of NHS Forest's national Two@2 event, run by The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.
It's that time of year again!
Another year, another fantastic opportunity to join colleagues across the country and help improve NHS facilities nationwide.
This year, NHS Sustainability Day takes place on the 23rd March, and as always we are encouraging our sites to show their support by planting two trees at 2pm, somewhere prominent on their site.
