GATEWAY COMMUNITY LEARNING PROJECT 2022

Green social prescribing in action

Our partnership with Surrey Care Trust at their Gateway Allotment Project in Reigate aims to improve people's physical, mental and social wellbeing by connecting them to nature. We will be providing their clients, volunteers and members of staff with outdoor learning activities, wildlife gardening courses, rural craft workshops and woodland conservation tasks.

Connecting & nurturing people with nature

We have a grant from Surrey Heartlands Nature Connection Fund to coordinate a green social prescribing programme for Surrey Care Trust. We will provide outdoor activities at New Pond Farm Allotments, Earlswood Lakes and Felland Copse to connect people with nature.

Why not relax

Listen to birds
Contemplate the canopy
Hug a tree
Lie in a hammock
Feed your senses
Find inner peace

Time to play

Hide & seek
Bark rubbing
Stick games
Bows & arrows
Mud sculpture
Story telling

Create a memory

Natural paints
Wild mosaics
Outdoor printing
Leaf painting
Whittling
Viking knitting

Discover a secret

Scavenger hunt
Foraging
Wildlife tracking
Meet a tree
Woodland spirits
Night walk

Live an adventure

Shelter building
Sling a hammock
Fire lighting
Campfire cooking
Ropes & knots
Off the beaten track

Learn a skill

Biology of trees
Felling trees
Coppicing
Pollarding
Making tools
Using tools

If you feel a 'day in the woods' experience would help improve your physical, mental and emotional well-being or

you would like to meet other people in an outdoor environment why not contact Sorbus Learning (see below) or

Surrey Care Trust (Tel: 01483 426990 or Email: [email protected]) and reconnect with nature.