Natural England, in conjunction with the University of East London and Plymouth University, is running an International Outdoor Learning Conference. This will be on the 3rd July from 10am-16.45pm.
The aims of the conference are:
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.
Greater London Authority Community Tree Nurseries study and links with the NHS Forest
As part of the Mayor’s RE:LEAF programme The Next Field, a green spaces business consultancy, has been commissioned by the GLA to explore the potential for London to establish and sustain a wider network of community led tree nurseries.
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.
Over 20 NHS Forest sites are taking part in planting 2 trees @ 2pm for NHS Sustainability Day on the 26th March 2015. Healthcare organisations involved range from large teaching hospitals and mental health trusts to ambulance services. More than 500 trees are being planted during the day, many of which have been generously sponsored by the Great Outdoor Gym Company.
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.
Thanks to a grant from 'Awards for All', the national lottery's Big Lottery fund, and the generosity of several other donors, The Centre for Sustainable Health Care is to facilitate the setting up of a Green Health Route in Marston, a suburb of Oxford, to encourage local people to get outside and use and enjoy their greenspace.
Book the date and start organising now for the 2015 NHS Sustainability Day of Action on 26th March, 2015.
If you would like to take part in the NHS Forest's 2@2 campaign, that involves planting 2 trees at 2 o'clock, please contact NHS Forest team. We also have a number of trees to give away, so if your site would like 10 trees or more do let us know!
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On 20th January 2015, charities across the UK joined forces to campaign for the protection and enhancement of our treasured landscapes.
Encompassing 27 national and regional organisations, including the Campaign to Protect Rural England, National Trust, British Mountaineering Council, Wilderness Foundation, and The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (the charity that runs the NHS Forest), the coalition is believed to be the largest ever to be formed on this issue.
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare has partnered with The Wildlife Trusts and the RSPB to call for a new Nature and Wellbeing Act. The Act would put nature at the heart of how decisions are made about health, housing and other development, education, economic growth, flood resilience and every community. Multiple studies show that people who have a connection with the natural environment stay healthier and recover from illness more quickly than those who are isolated from nature, which is the whole rationale behind CSH’s NHS Forest programme.
