Events and conferences
Gardening for Health – a recipe for success
Growing Health and Sustainable Food Cities, 12th March 2018
This webinar was organised by Growing Health and Sustainable Food Cities explored the key success factors from food growing projects that have been commissioned by a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) or Public Health to deliver health outcomes.
Discover what are the success factors and common themes from projects. What are the advantages of partnership working? What opportunities does social prescribing offer and how can you be commission ready?
Presentations
- Intro and overview of Growing Health - Maria Devereaux
- Key success factors and common themes from commissioned projects - Margi Lennartsson
- Partnership working –Natural Health Service, Mersey Forest - Clare Olver
- Social prescribing - opportunities for food growing projects - Sarah Williams
- Top tips for food growing projects - Sarah Williams
Action Planning Workshop: How can we best deliver health and wellbeing through food growing / healthy eating in Greater Manchester?
Monday 26th February @ Bridge 5 Mill, 22A Beswick Street, Manchester, M4 7HR
- The benefits of gardening for health and wellbeing. And models of partnership working - Margi Lennartsson, Growing Health
- What’s working locally? - Sow the City, Kindling Trust
- How is the voluntary sector currently working together and sharing ideas / practice And what is the vision for the future? - Green Health Alliance
- Current challenges, what’s needed and next actions - Sarah Williams, Growing Health team
Growing Health – gardening for wellbeing
Tuesday 6th December 2016 @ Sustain, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT
A conference for healthcare professionals, health commissioners and gardening projects by Growing Health.
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- Maria Devereaux, Project Officer, Growing Health
- Tony Li, Senior Project Officer, MIND
- Dale Cranshaw, Director, Growing Support
- Jim Sikorski, Chair Sydenham Garden and GP
- John Haseler, Mental Health Programme Manager and Karin Barthel, Joint Commissioning Manager Dementia and MHOA, Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group and London Borough of Lewisham
- Jess Crocker, Harvest Manager, Brighton and Hove Food Partnership
- Kathryn Rossiter, CEO, Thrive
- Margi Lennartsson, Associate, Garden Organic
- Louise Scott, Associate Director, Ecorys UK Limited and Veronica Barry, Birmingham University, formerly of Growing Opportunities, Ideal for All
- Jess Crocker, Harvest Manager, Brighton and Hove Food Partnership
Growing in the Community - a natural part of the health service
Tuesday 27th October 2015 @ The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT
A conference for healthcare professionals, health commissioners and gardening projects by Growing Health.
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- Chair – Dr Rachael Bragg, Development Coordinator, Care Farming UK and Researcher in Green Care
- Dr Margi Lennartsson – Growing Health (Garden Organic) Project Manager - Growing Health
- Damien Newman, Thrive Training & Education Co-ordinator – The health and wellbeing benefits of gardening and quality standards
- Annette James, Head of Children and Young People’s Health Improvement - Public Health, Liverpool City Council - Growing wellbeing together
- Clare Olver, Programme Manager, Nature for Health, The Mersey Forest Team -Developing consortia to deliver a commissioned service
- Rachel Summerscales, Hulme Community Garden Centre, Paul Courtney, Professor of Social Economy, Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucester – Developing an evaluation tool for Hulme Community Garden Centre, the story so far
- Squash Nutrition – Grassroots and Greenshoots video
- Ann-Marie Hutton, The Rotunda – Gardens for personal growth
- Annie Merry, Faiths for Change – Growing food changing lives
- Lucy Antal, Sustainable Food City Liverpool Coordinator, Liverpool Food People - Sustaining the city through Growing
- Maria Devereaux, Sydenham Garden – A commissioned project promoting mental health recovery
Prescribing Gardening - Making green care a natural part of the health service
Phoenix High School, The Curve, Shepherds Bush, London, W12 0RQ
Wednesday 27th May 2015, 11am - 4.30pm
A conference for healthcare professionals by Hammersmith Community Gardens Association and Growing Health supported by The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens.
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- Green care: an overview
Dr Rachel Bragg, Deputy Director of the Essex Sustainability Institute (ESI) and Senior Researcher in the Green Exercise Research Team at the University of Essex. - Commissioning gardening and food growing to promote health
Professor Jeremy Levy MA PhD FHEA FRCP - Director of Education and Quality, Health Education North West London. - The Gardens for Life Project
Susie Crome, Public Health Locality Manager, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. - Plant a Seed, Grow Well project
Amy Chrisp, Project Coordinator - Get Out There project
Kevin Bittan, Project Coordinator and previous volunteer.
Kevin case study. Maria case study. - Ecotherpay with dementia patients
Andrew Waterhouse, Occupational Therapist, Hammersmith & Fulham Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Service. - Developing community gardens
Terry Oliver, Environment Manager in Kensington and Chelsea.
How can we get community food growing ‘prescribed’ by the NHS or funded by public health?
Sustainable Food Cities webinar with Growing Health
A free webinar for community food growing projects
Tuesday 24th March 2015, 2.00 – 3.30pm
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- Introduction to Sustainable Food Cities
Alizee Marceau, Sustainable Food Cities Project Officer - Introduction to Growing Health
Maria Devereaux, Project Officer, Growing Health/Sustain - What is commissioning?
Harriet Cooper, Project Officer, Growing Health/Garden Organic - Routes to commissioning, (including challenges and top tips)
Sarah Williams, Programme Manager, Growing Health/Sustain - Growing Health case study 1 - CCG
Tom Gallagher, Director, Sydenham Garden - Growing Health case study 2 – Public Health
Connie Hunter and Kate Metcalf, Women’s Environmental Network
Growing for Health: Community food growing - a natural part of the health service
13th November 2014
Coexist, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QY.
Download the presentations (PDF format):
Introduction to Growing Health
Routes to commissioning
Clinical Commissioning Groups and Public Health
Community growing for health - commissioned projects
- Case study CCG - Tom Gallagher, Director, Sydenham Garden
- Case study public health - Sue Walker, HHEAG, Bristol
Building partnerships
Measuring outcomes and impact
- Why measure - Joy Carey, Independent consultant
- Tools - Veronica Barry, Formerly of Ideal for All, Sandwell
- Social Return on Investment - Ulrich Schmutz, Growing Health
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Growing for Health: Community food growing - a natural part of the health service
Wednesday 2 April 2014
The London Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA
Download the presentations (PDF format):
Growing Health intro - Dr Margi Lennartsson, Growing Health, Garden Organic
Community growing for health – commissioned projects
- Case study – therapeutic –Tom Gallagher, Director, Sydenham Garden
- Case study – community – Rick Aron, Lincolnshire Master Gardener Co-ordinator, Garden Organic
Routes to commissioning – approaching Clinical Commissioning Groups and Public Health
- Sarah Williams, Project Manager, Growing Health, Sustain
- Susie Crome, Public Health Locality Manager, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Building partnerships or consortia to help get commissioned
Measuring outcomes and impact
- Tools and scales – Joe Sempik, Research Fellow, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham
- Cost Saving Analysis – Olivier Vardakoulias, Economist, nef (New Economics Foundation)
- Measuring Impact using Social Return on Investment – Paul Courtney, Professor of Social Economy, (CCRI) Countryside and Community Research Institute
Download: speaker biographies programme
Green Care, White Care
Monday 18 November 2013
Royal College of Physicians, London
‘Gardening and Growing for Health’ Seminar
Gardening, growing food and programmes of Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH) can positively influence health and well-being. The five key benefits are:
- Better physical health – a form of exercise in rehabilitation and rebuilding strength
- Improvements in psychological health – gardening has a positive impact on our mental health
- Social benefits – research suggests greater social contact leads to feeling healthier
- Qualifications and skills – increased chance of employment
- Access to the natural environment – gardening allows us to connect with nature
Thrive Patron and President of the Royal College of Physicians Sir Richard Thompson believes that STH should be considered an important part of health and social care, comparable to any other care application.
“Gardening as a physical activity has been shown to be helpful in the treatment of anxiety, depression and dementia” (Growth Point, (2012) Issue 127, Summer 2012)
Download the presentations:
- Growing 4 Life – Project Evaluation
Dr Joe.Sempik, Research Fellow, School of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Nottingham - The Effects of Social and Therapeutic Horticulture on Aspects of Social Behaviour (Thrive INSIGHT™)
Dr Joe.Sempik, Research Fellow, School of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Nottingham - Growing a Healthy Older Population
Dr Jemma Hawkins, Research Associate Public Health Improvement Research Network (PHIRN), Cardiff University - A consortium approach - The Natural Health Service
Kirsty Rhind, Project Manager, The Mersey Forest Team - Commissioning food growing
Sarah Glendinning, Programme Officer, Public Health, Lincolnshire County Council - Growing health in practice: two case studies
Sandwell - Veronica Barry, Project Lead, Ideal for All. Growing Opportunities, Sandwell - Sydenham Garden
Sydenham Garden - Jim Sikorski, Chair of Trustees and GP Sydenham Green Group Practice
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Growing Health: How can gardening and food growing be used to promote health?
Date: 7 October 2013
Venue: Venue: 5 St Philips Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW.
This seminar was organised by Learning for Public Health West Midlands, in partnership with Growing Health, a national project run by Garden Organic and Sustain, and Ideal for All.
Overview
The health, wellbeing and social benefits of gardening, horticulture therapy and food growing are now increasingly recognised and documented. Across the UK there is a growing movement to bring gardening and food growing into core activities of public health, general health and social care. Emerging garden based programmes now engage groups of diverse ages and backgrounds and provide opportunities for physical and therapeutic activity, reduction of social isolation and skills development. Food growing can provide improved awareness of healthy eating, cooking skills, both through access to fresh, local fruit and vegetables, and link strongly to food strategy and obesity prevention. A wide range of people are involved in such programmes including those with mental health problems, physical impairment, people with long term conditions, learning difficulties or those in recovery and rehabilitation. Work also focuses on promoting the health of the general population including schools and families. This training day brings an opportunity to find out in more depth about how food growing and gardening can be used across both health, social care, and food policy to deliver a range of objectives, whilst meeting core strategic aims.
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Growing Health: Growing Health is a national project run by Garden Organic and Sustain, which is funded by the Tudor Trust, to see how community food growing can be routinely used by the health and social care services as a way of promoting health and wellbeing for a range of individuals and population groups.
