What we do

We provide training and development in social prescribing for link workers, health professionals and voluntary organisations. 

Our events and webinars include tips for link workers, health professionals and voluntary organisations, summaries of research and examples of ground-breaking projects. 

Our Social Prescribing Champions scheme supports health and care professionals to spread the word about social prescribing and share learning and effective practice. 

Our Innovation Network supports voluntary sector organisations looking to connect their work more effectively to the health system. We also produce guides, reports and toolkits to help put neighbourhood health into practice. 

We bring together different sectors and organisations to improve neighbourhood health, working with partners across arts and culture, heritage, nature, physical activity, advice and information and faith.  

We also partner with organisations focusing on specific age groups, including children and young people and older people. 

As a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre, we work with governments and health systems around the world to support social prescribing internationally. We convene the International Social Prescribing Collaborative, the International Arts on Prescription Collaborative and are part of Social Prescribing-EU.

At a time when funding can be hard to access, we aim to drive investment into social prescribing – and into the local organisations delivering life-changing projects. 

Through our Power of Music Fund, we support grassroots organisations delivering music projects for people living with dementia. We have also established Power of Music Centres of Excellence to test and expand the most effective approaches. 

We are also aiming to help establish a Community Health and Wellbeing Fund to increase investment in social prescribing and neighbourhood health.

We work with academics and experts to build the evidence about what works for social prescribing – including by producing evidence reports, supporting research proposals and sharing research through our International Evidence Collaborative. 

We have established the National Centre for Social Prescribing Data and Analysis in partnership with UCL, to analyse data and understand what works best. 

We raise awareness about social prescribing among the public, health professionals and voluntary organisations – through campaigns, media work and a wide range of resources. 

We also play a coordinating role for Social Prescribing Day – an annual celebration of social prescribing.