Research: Natures Way
A UKRI project, Nature’s Way is a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to co-create, pilot and disseminate an innovative approach using (co)design to connect people to nature for health and wellbeing during and after the COVID pandemic.
The project is led by the Royal College of Art, in collaboration with the University of Sheffield and The MindKind Project CIC in Walsall, with support from Walsall Housing Group Limited. The partnership consortium consists of Bradford City Council, Shared Assets, HAS technology, National Association of Voluntary and Community Action and Intelligent Health (the organisation that developed the Beat the Streets service, founded by Dr William Bird, editor of the Oxford Text Book on Nature and Public Health).
We are proud to say we are taking social prescribing one step further to explore how green prescribing can support individuals and communities to access nature for their mental wellbeing. This innovative model to provide sustainable tools to address the growing mental health pandemic will be something which can be rolled out on a national scale.