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Gloucestershire Nature on Prescription Funding 2023

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Picture credit - Tewkesbury Nature Reserve

Gloucestershire Nature on Prescription Funding 2023

 

Thanks to a significant investment of £100,000 from NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board, Gloucestershire Local Nature Partnership made grants to enable three organisations to deliver green social prescribing projects to address health inequalities:

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These projects have all recently finished this pilot funding.  This blog shares what happened in each project and what was evaluated and learned: 

https://www.gloucestershirenature.org.uk/post/celebrating-the-achievements-of-nature-on-prescription

 

All projects are continuing, thanks to the support of further funding from Gloucestershire NHS Integrated Care Board.  A big thank you to Hannah Gorf from the NHS - her vision and principles made this work possible.

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There was strong competition for the available funding, with 19 organisations putting forward a range of excellent ideas around Gloucestershire, showing the impressive potential for many more projects for nature connection or community nature projects that can bring health and social benefits.  We only funded three projects because we took an approach of ensuring a workable level of resources and capacity for each project.

 

Thank you to all organisations who developed ideas – it’s great to hear the interest and skills for working in this field.  Each of the funded projects will have a strong focus on evaluation, to help build the evidence to steer and strengthen the case for green social prescribing in Gloucestershire in the future.

 

Many thanks also to the decision-making group, including individuals from NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board, Barnwood Trust and University of Gloucestershire.

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Picture credit: Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust

Documents and Resources

 

The funding guidelines that we worked to can be found here:  Nature on Prescription Funding Guidelines 2023.pdf

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This Nature on Prescription handbook is free to access and contains evidence-based guidance for providers, commissioners and referrers: https://www.ecehh.org/research/nature-prescription-handbook/

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A Natural Health Service: Improving Lives and Saving Money – a report from The Wildlife Trusts in July 2023 evaluating the financial benefits of green social prescribing projects:  https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/health-projects-save-nhs-time-and-money

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Reports from each pilot project:

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