Spring to Life - Growing Wellbeing

Community Wellbeing Projects

Spring to Life - Growing Wellbeing

We are involved in several different projects in the community, including the Allotment and Winter Wellbeing chats in Kings Norton, Mother Gardens, Walking in nature, restoration of an orchard in Kings Norton, and Food Forest Brum. Details of these are found on this page.
Spring to Life is passionate about helping people, which includes helping people to build strong relationships with their families, their friends and their wider communities. Many of our community projects help people to make connections wiht other local people through enjoying being outdoors in nature, and to become involved in planting and growing food to benefit themselves and their community. One user recently commented: It was good to be out of doors, it didn’t feel pressurised. I liked being with other people.

21 Nov 2024
Winter Well-being Chats Jan - Feb 2025
You are invited to join our well-being chats in Kings Norton to chat, learn and share in an informal and friendly local group:

Learn to relax in order to reduce anxiety and de-stress

Find out strategies to support good mental health and well-being

Connect with others and to your community

Fridays 1.30 – 3 pm from 10 Jan till 14 Feb 2025, Hawkesley Community Centre, 51 Edgewood Road, B38 9RN

For more information or to sign up contact:
Phone/text 07856 277028 or email info@springtolife.org or visit www.springtolife.o ...

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21 Nov 2024
Community Allotment in Kings Norton
Out Allotment sessions will begin again in spring 2025. Keep an eye on this community Projects page or the news section for more details nearer the time. See the News section for what we achieved during 2024 at the allotment.

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21 Nov 2024
Well-being in the Green
This year we have begun to fully develop our eco-therapy programme, titled 'Well-being in the Green'  in Kings Norton South. We hope to do more in 2025.
With funding from the National Lottery, we ran a collection of activities that had a range of ways of connecting therapeutically with nature: Nature walks, forest garden / orchard workdays, and eco-writing for well-being.
The idea has been to run a programme where benefits can be gained through different means: being in nature, making positive improvements ...

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21 Nov 2024
Reflections on walking in nature
This reflective poem was written by one of the participants at the eco-writing event, and we are grateful for their permission to share it.
The participants were invited to reflect on how the Autumn colours of the leaves, and the changes the season brings, relate to our lives.

“My green is a brightness, an attitude of positivity. A readiness to tackle life and whatever it brings.

My yellow and orange is a fortitude that carries me through the long dark nights to come with help from my tv, my cat, my friends on t ...

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CAN - Community Anchoring Networks
CAN aims to connect people to activities, services and projects happening in their community or in their city, in order to support their well-being. This is our version of Social Prescribing. We  may connect and support people to access leisure activities, refer them to services to meet their basic needs such as Food Banks and Pantries, welfare and debt advice, other mental health projects, and further services provided in the city.

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Mother Gardens project
The Mother Gardens project emerged out of Food Forest Brum, as a method for local food groups themselves to grow, share and receive plants. Mother Gardens may allocate nursery beds for propogation on their site, or simply dig up and share surplus plants that have spread and multiplied. Therefore any group or individual can sign up as a Mother garden regardless of the level of expertise or time available.
Plants are then shared to groups and individuals in their local areas or with other Mother gardens across t ...

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Food Forest Brum
Food Forest Brum
For several years we have been working with communities to create permanent food landscapes, where all people can access fresh food in their open spaces.
We provide a range of perennial edible plants free of charge to local groups in Birmingham and surrounding areas . This can range from fruit and nut trees trees, soft fruit shrubs, herbs and perennial vegetables. These will go in a range of settings such as community orchards, edible hedges, forest gardens, as well as to be planted individually or f ...

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Spring to Life - Growing Wellbeing
Spring to Life - Growing Wellbeing

To get in touch with us, please use the details below or use our online contact form.

07856 277 028
contact@springtolife.org

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