Green Recovery Project

Petrus is a homelessness charity that provides nature-based social prescribing activities in Rochdale, with activities that are open to all members of the community. Petrus identified the need to create provision that addresses and removes barriers, with community activities that support nature whilst also supporting health and wellbeing in a way that is more accessible to young people, families, people with severe and enduring mental health diagnoses and those with complex support needs.

Utilising the learning from existing programmes, the Green Recovery Project will scale up delivery using a preventative framework to provide services that support young people and families and members of the community with severe and enduring mental health diagnoses to overcome access barriers to blue and green spaces.

The project will help connect more people to nature including those who face barriers in doing so, increasing opportunities for community members to support nature recovery. Issues that are important to the local community will be targeted by offering support and training that enables people to become nature recovery ambassadors able to make real change. Through the project, the team aims to create 50m2 of new accessible green space and improve 150m2 of existing green spaces through planting, conservation and habitat creation activities.

The project will also deliver a range of co-produced sessions open to all members of the community, including a mixture of high support sessions, dedicated children and young people sessions, family drop ins, community action days and outreach activities in GP surgeries.

To hear more about the project or to get involved please email Rachael Bennion: rachael.bennion@petrus.org.uk.

More information about Petrus can be found at www.petrus.org.uk.