Food growing on prescription
This report highlights the findings of a short piece of research undertaken with community gardens and food growing projects in London, to create a snapshot of how Social Prescribing is perceived, how garden leaders are or want to be engaging with these services and how to overcome the barriers to more people being referred to garden-based activities.
Report contents
- Executive summary
- Headlines
- Background
- Method of research
- Respondents
- Types of community gardens / projects
- Garden activities
- Findings
- Awareness and perceptions of Social Prescribing
- Engagement with referral services
- Opportunities for engagement with SP
- Barriers to engagement with SP
- Resourcing social prescribing
- Ways to increase contact and referrals
- Conclusions
- Recommendations
- Local SP services/ VCS/ local groups
- GLA (in partnership with Capital Growth or local networks)
- NHS
- Appendices
- Survey Questions
- Key graphs from survey
- List of interviewees
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13 Sep 2019
Capital Growth
Capital Growth: The Capital Growth campaign, run by Sustain's London Food Link offers practical and financial support to communities around London to help more people grow more food, and to have greater access to land and growing spaces for community benefit. The Capital Bee project, part of Capital Growth, seeks pledges to promote bee-friendly behaviour, and supports establishment of community beehives.
