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Come to our conference on September 28th, 2015 at University Hospital, Birmingham. The theme is increasing the value of Health and Wellbeing in your green space and we will be showcasing and sharing best practice in this area through presentations and workshops. Our hosts are University Hospital, Birmingham, who will be showing us around their fantastic orchard and community garden in the afternoon. The cost is a very reasonable £30. We look forward to welcoming all sectors of healthcare. We will also be presenting five awards.

CSH has been involved in a great project with Central Bedfordshire to engage both the countryside access and health teams. We have helped develop robust health monitoring systems which will be evaluated by a newly established steering group. These will be used to determine the health benefits of taking part in exercise in nature. Part of the work involved reviewing the area’s health priorities and identifying existing green space projects which could be used to engage target health groups in the local population.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare team walks the local green health route they helped to create on NHS Sustainability Day, demonstrating their commitment to creating and using green space for health.

This planting season University Hospital, Birmingham has been busying planting 370 trees over the weekend of the 22/23 February 2015. 120 of them are fruit trees! The majority of which being a mixture of apples, cooking and eating, plum, cherry, pear and damson. These trees are mainly traditional varieties from the Midlands.