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Forgotten Veterans
Forgotten Veterans UK (FVUK) is a Portsmouth based charity, supporting those currently serving in the armed forces, veterans and their families nationally throughout the UK, and within the PO1 to PO6 postcode areas. [...]
Thriving Communities Fund: supporting communities through challenging times
During a challenging couple of years, where many individuals and communities have been facing tough times, those working in social prescribing have really demonstrated their value and impact by changing lives – in small ways [...]
Archaeology on Prescription
Archaeology on Prescription is a new, innovative social prescribing project that seeks to engage York’s residents in archaeology. It will improve people’s health and wellbeing, foster new social connections and improve confidence through the building of new skills [...]
Parent Voice – Better Connect in partnership with North Tyneside Carers Centre
Parent Voice is a key project in Better Connect, and North Tyneside Carers Centre (NTCC) are strategic partners in this social prescribing programme. Parent Voice focuses on using creative activities in new [...]
Heeley City Farm – community heritage
Heeley City Farm has been successfully delivering Community Heritage Work across Sheffield and beyond since 2008. This is a friendly farm and environmental visitor centre in Heeley, at the heart of South [...]
Wonder Women – raising women’s profile in Peterborough
Snieguole Maliavskaja, Project Coordinator of Wonder Women in Peterborough, tells us about how the project is supporting women in the area. Wonder Women aims to raise women’s profile in the city. The [...]
Somers Town Museum – “A space for us”
Diana Foster, director of the Somers Town History Club, founded ‘A space for us’, a living memory project - not only to celebrate the local heritage and history, but also to benefit [...]
What’s cooking? A visit to Thrive Haringey
On a cold November Friday what could be more nourishing than a chicken ramen? How about a chicken ramen cooked by children from an estate in Haringey, where it wasn’t just the flavours that mattered, [...]
FMCP Club – combatting loneliness in people with neurological conditions
Jacqui Barbet-Sheilds, founder and trustee of the FMCP Club, tells us about the work of group. The FMCP Club is a support group for people with conditions such as ME, multiple sclerosis, functional neurological disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, Addison’s disease, post-traumatic stress disorder and other neurological conditions. These conditions often cause loneliness and [...]
Getting veteran friendly accredited shows your veteran patients that you understand and care
Ashlee Manning is a social prescribing GP link worker for Herts Help. She is also an Armed Forces veteran. As a veteran, I found adjusting to civilian life difficult. I joined the army at 16. [...]
Crocodiles in the community – a day with The Health Tree
Joshua Ryan, Head of Thriving Communities visited The Health Tree, a Thriving Communities funded project, and was informed, inspired, and entertained. I’m sat in a hall with about sixty people, and we all have our [...]
GamCare – helping those affected by gambling related harms
What is Gambling related harm? Gambling related harms are generally defined as ‘the adverse financial, personal and social consequences to gamblers, their families and wider social networks, that can be caused by gambling’. It [...]
Hear what we want – raising young people’s voices through social prescribing
We don’t talk about love enough. Or relationships. Or even sex. Despite being a fundamental part of life, it’s still something of a taboo. The Her Centre and Tramshed theatre in Greenwich, London are seeking [...]
YOUR Climate Needs YOU!
In September the Royal Horticultural Society launched its ‘YOUR Climate needs YOU!’ campaign to encourage gardeners to be more sustainable. Here Richard Claxton, GP, gardener, and founder of the gardening4health directory, reflects on how gardening can be good for [...]
Victorious Women of Valiant Workshop: supporting survivors of domestic abuse
Janet Walker, founder of Victorious Women of Valiant and a domestic abuse survivor, tells us about the service she offers to other women who have been through similar experiences. Victorious Women [...]
S2R Support to Recovery
S2R Support to Recovery is an independent mental health and wellbeing charity, working across Kirklees, offering a range of wellbeing, creative and outdoor workshops. They are a partner in the Third Sector Leaders Kirklees - Well Connected [...]
Slough CVS – supporting wellbeing through creativity
Slough CVS has been organising initiatives to help connect clients with low to moderate levels of depression, anxiety, stress, isolation, and loneliness, to focus their energy on a positive activity. The Thriving Communities Supporting Well Being through Creativity [...]
Physical activity helps people’s mental health in Plymouth
As part of the Green Social Prescribing project in Plymouth, Argyle Community Trust are currently delivering a range of weekly activities which aim to encourage people from the local community to become more physically [...]
Waterways and wellbeing
The Canal & River Trust will lead partners who are using the natural asset of the Nottingham & Beeston Canal to provide physical activity, art, heritage and food-based activities for local people. [...]
Back on Track: Financial Shield
At the heart of most social problems is a financial one. Hanan Paganini explains how debt intervention is being integrated into social prescribing to help GPs support patients with long term health [...]
Helix Arts: Better Connect – from attendee to volunteer
Debbie Reed started her journey with Helix Arts around 2 years ago, slap bang in the middle of a pandemic. – and she is now an amazingly committed Helix Arts Volunteer for [...]
Finding what works for me at a visit to Thriving Communities Fund project
Dulcie Alexander, Thriving Communities Fund Programme Manager spent an afternoon with one of the Thriving Communities funded project partners, at a Dance for Mood Boosting. It prompted her to reflect both on what is working [...]
‘Get Fishing for Wellbeing’ resource hub launched
The Angling Trust are excited to announce the launch of a new ‘Get Fishing for Wellbeing’ resource hub at www.anglingtrust.net/getfishingforwellbeing Angling offers the opportunity to escape the demands of a busy [...]
Treacle – Helping you through those sticky times
I am an Advanced Nurse Practitioner working in Primary Care, and in 2020, during the first national lockdown I became increasingly frustrated at the lack of any one site where I could [...]