Nature Connections

Aim

To host an event with partner organisations to promote connecting with nature as a way of improving mental health

North Manchester Community Partnership is a partnership between seven likeminded community-based organisations, based in North Manchester.  The partnership and its members work to help those in impoverished and deprived areas to become empowered and learn new skills, to gain employment and training opportunities and helps with the most basic of life skills.

Held at Simpson Memorial Hall in Moston.   The event would involve: 

• Creative nature-themed workshops, i.e:
• Willow weaving/wreath-making 
• Spring bulb making
• Bird feeders and seed bombs
• Nature based therapy sessions

Spending time with nature is proven to benefit our wellbeing and mental health.  A greater connection to the natural world is essential for good mental health.

The event will be run as part of World Mental Health Day to help promote connections to nature and improved mental health.

Spending time with nature is proven to benefit our wellbeing and mental health.  Nature is so central to our psychological and emotional health that it’s almost impossible to realise good mental health for all without a greater connection to the natural world. In the last five generations, so many of us have lived and worked in a context that is largely separated from nature.

This project successfully funded on 24th January 2024