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.
This Christmas, the NHS Forest team have launched our Christmas Crowdfunding appeal. Within a few days we have almost reached half of our target but we still need your help. In order to receive any of the donations we need to raise £1000, all donations count and for as little as £5 you could be helping to plant trees and greening NHS estates!
Parks are potentially under threat if their funding is cut. www.hlf.org.uk/state-uk-public-parks. The report makes a number of recommendations including:
Insect pollinators matter. Through pollinating wild and garden plants they contribute to biodiversity. By pollinating crops they provide variety in our diets. They are valued by YOU, the public.
Thanks to all who entered an award for the NHS Forest conference 2014. Below is a list of the winners and those who were highly commended. More details available soon.
Best Community Project
Winner: Cirencester Hospital, Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust
Highly Commended: Broomfield Hospital, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust
Not long to go until the NHS Forest conference 2014. The NHS Forest team are looking forward to the event on the 7th October at Whittingham sports centre hosted by Lancashire Care Trust.
The agenda for the day is full of exciting presentations and innovative workshops including "Green Prescriptions", "How to Engage Clinicans" and "Funding a Forest site", to name but a few. To find out more please see here.
