Zoë Freedman

Our next Thriving Communities webinar is presented in partnership with the Southbank Centre.

Art by Post: Of Home and Hope workshop
Tuesday 21 September 3-4pm Register here.

Join Thriving Communities and the Southbank Centre for a participatory workshop to explore their free creative project resources coinciding with the opening of their Art by…[Read more]

We’ve made some how-to videos to help you use the Network. I hope you find them useful!

The playlist is here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_9W_sHDrTravxoBig74Qx4tmPZObQRMI

1 – How to join the Network
2 – Your profile
3 – How to reply on the Network
4 – How to create a new topic

If there are areas you’d like a video guide…[Read more]

I thought this sounded like a really interesting and innovative use of social prescribing:

Accelerate and Elemental bring social prescribing to thousands of chronic wound patients in London.

London-based Accelerate has partnered with Elemental Software to offer social prescribing services to thousands of patients with chronic wound and…[Read more]

Hi Hayley. Thanks for sharing. Hope you get some interest! There’s also a recruitment thread on the National Forum which you could add this to: https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/network/topic/recruitment/

Hi Nigel.

I’m so sorry this didn’t get approved sooner. Do please let us know if there are more events coming up over the summer.

Alone has fielded more than 50,000 calls to its support line since the pandemic hit: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40340807.html

This Irish support line sounds brilliant, providing advice and support on a huge range of issues.

Dearth of mental health support during pandemic for those with chronic health problems

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/uot-dom071921.php

A scoping review of English and Chinese-language studies found individuals with chronic physical health conditions had higher levels of mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic;…[Read more]