Waterway Wellbeing Day 14.08.21

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Nature Nurture and friends present: WATERWAY WELLBEING DAY thanks to support from Thames Water and the Thriving Communities Fund.

Welcome to Christchurch Meadows, August 2021. Discover an array of organisations in Reading, supporting our health and wellbeing through nature connection, horticulture and creativity.

Meet The Tree Doctor, what wildlife can you see?

Come look at the bark of this groovy tree

Let's check out these leaves, the doctor's appraisal:

'Your health will benefit from willow and hazel'

Let's use some newspaper, wrap it on wood

A plant pot we've made, that's really good!

Now using a pencil or a pointed scraper,

Make a print on a piece of paper.

Shiver me timbers, oh dear, oh dear,

If I'm not mistaken the pirates are here!

Join the quest to find nature around,

Look up to the sky and on the ground

Tap, tap, tap let's use a mallet,

We've sculpted a fish, there you have it!

The Thames Water, they let us know,

The many ways to save H2O.

Come on a Wild Walk by the rivers edge,

Let's look after wildlife; give us your pledge.

The smelling of nature, let us commence,

These lovely smells, my nostrils sense!

I'll use some lavender, make a posy,
Later on, this'll help me be dozy.

Let's round it all off with a waterway song.
In nature, where we all belong.

Nature Nurture is proud to be a member of Reading Green Wellbeing Network; a group of local providers delivering Green Care and nature-based interventions to people with a wide range of needs in and around Reading facebook.com/RGfHWN

RGWN's participation in this event is supported by the Thriving Communities Fund, 'Wild Being' programme,managed by Reading Voluntary Action, which aims to improve and increase social prescribing community activities by bringing together place-based partnerships of local voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise projects.

The Thriving Communities Fund has been made possible thanks to funding from the National Academy for Social Prescribing, Arts Council England, Natural England and Historic England, with support from NHS England and NHS Improvement, Sport England, the Office for Civil Society, the Money & Pensions Service and NHS Charities Together.

Nature Nurture would like to thank our partners who provided activities on the day: Reading Green Wellbeing Network, Food4Families, The Museum of English Rural Life, The Ridgeline Trust, The Conservation Volunteers, Green Health Thames Valley, The Engine Room, Green Trees Education, McAlistair Hood, Alice May Yoga, Adrian Lawson, Integrated Research and Development Centre, volunteers Aquaman Alan Kellas and pirate David Wall and volunteers from Thames Water.

A big thank you to Thames Water and Thriving Communities for funding the day and to the lovely load of people who came along.

Thank you to Maria Andrews @Manifestafilm; photographer and videographer for the arts and other things that matter. If you are interested in a film to promote your organisation or campaign, get in touch manifestafilm.weebly.com/

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