A £5.77 million cross-governmental funded project has shown that expanding access to Green Social Prescribing can promote wellbeing and improve mental health.

Nature-based health and wellbeing programmes could save hundreds of millions of pounds each year and reduce society’s reliance on the NHS, according to a new report by The Wildlife Trusts.

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust are delighted to have started a large Wild Wellbeing project in Derby thanks to £95,000 funding from Cadent Foundation.

Derbyshire has secured a £500,000 government funding boost to provide green social prescribing, an initiative aimed at improving people’s mental health.