Neuro In Nature CIC projects fund

Our co-director, Mary Delaney, will be taking part in the Wilmslow Autumn Triathlon on Sunday 22nd September, to raise start up funds for our social enterprise Neuro In Nature CIC. The sprint distance triathlon involves a 400m swim, 24km bike ride and 6.4km run. 

The aim of Neuro In Nature CIC is to provide nature based therapies to people living with long term neurological conditions, and their families. Having worked in the NHS and private sector for 15 years, we were struck by the gap in services for people who were subject to NHS postcode lottery of a lack of neuropsychology or long wait times, and clients who do not have a litigation claim based funding to support access to therapies. 

As a not-for-profit, all funds raised through this triathlon sponsorship will go directly towards growing our new service. Here's an outline of what your donation will be used towards; 

• £10 will fund snacks and refreshments at one of our nature based therapy sessions. 
• £20 will fund slightly fancier snacks at a session 🍰😊
• £40 will pay for site hire for a 3 hour session, at our current location for many of our session, in Philips Park, Prestwich. This money goes to another CIC already in place doing nature based work there. 
• £100 will allow us to buy four heart rate monitors, which we can then use to measure heart rate variability in participants in our sessions. This is an indicator of overall wellbeing and a good outcome measure of the impact of our sessions. By measuring this we can begin to contribute to the research evidence base for nature based therapies. 
• £250 would fund a Family Forest Therapy session, allowing us to pay forest school practitioners to work with children of our clients, while we support parents living with long term neurological conditions, and provide a space for positive parenting experiences in nature.

Any donations, however small, will be gratefully received and a huge boost to our efforts to get this social enterprise off the ground.