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Delivering a Greener Greater ManchesterGreater Manchester Natural Capital Group Annual Conference

11th February 20209.30 to 16.30 Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce

Seminar 1

Managing Land for Carbon

Bryan CosgroveCity of Trees

Dr Amanda Wright & Tom Smart

Natural England

To kick off…..

Hands Up if…

• You own or manage land in GM?

• You manage land for carbon benefits?

• You are interested in managing for carbon in future?

This session will cover:

• The role trees and peat can play in managing carbon

• Their wider natural capital benefits

• The current status of trees and peatland across the City Region

• An exploration of what more we can do to maximise these natural capital assets and their potential

Why should we care about

Carbon?

What does GM have? Current tree asset….

Tree cover by ward

Existing Tree Cover in GM

Question…

How many trees do you think there are in Greater Manchester?

Peat is widespread across Greater Manchester…

GM has 17,500 hectares of peatlands in its administrative boundary, of which…

• Over 11,000 ha are upland habitats (over 200m a.s.l).

• Over 6,000 ha are lowland peat.

Much of this peat is strikingly deep(over 5m deep in some areas)!

Did you know…

Peat has a massive carbon storage and sequestration potential:

10-12cm of peat stores as much carbon as a forestcovering the same area!

… and on our doorstep.

We are bordered by extensive upland peatlands

Additional ecosystem services and natural capital benefits from beyond administrative boundary:• Carbon sequestration• Flood risk mitigation• Air and water quality• Biodiversity value• … and more!

BUT these benefits can become risks (floods, wildfire) if peatland mismanaged.

Lowland sites can store huge quantities of carbon

EastWest

South

North

EastWest

Depth

Chat Moss contains 2,800 ha of continuous peat mass, with a total peat volume > 35 million cubic metres.

Local estimates suggest ~80 kg of C per m3.

= 2.8m tons of carbon stored at Chat Moss, and data from only 75% of the site!

Massive C storage and sequestration opportunities, but these opportunities being missed. Why?

What are the issues?

Problems on PeatDrainage, fertilisation and extraction turns the peat from a carbon sink to a carbon source.

Only ~3.5% of our lowland peat is in restored or near-natural state.

By contrast, > 40% is under cropland and intensive grassland.

These land uses are the ‘worst’ emitters of Carbon on peat.

© Peel L&P© Lancs Wildlife Trust

© Keith Williamson

Near-Natural/Restored

Heavily drained cropland

Quarry/peat extraction

Chat Moss: estimated emissions = 70 kt CO2-eq/year.

This is the equivalent of driving a family car 11,500 times round the equator, every year!

…and more than £4.5 million in carbon credits annually.

Problems on Peat

Land Cover Total ha

CO2-eq

(T/ha/y)Annual GHG (T

CO2-eq/y)

Bare/Extracted Peat 122.7 13.84 1698.3

Cropland 1161.3 38.98 45269.3

Developed 214.0 NA NA

Grass-Dominated Modified Bog 93.5 3.4 317.8

Intensive Grassland 656.4 29.89 19621.0

Open Water 29.0 NA NA

Rewetted Bog 102.3 0.81 82.8

Rewetted Fen 47.3 6.37 301.3

Woodland 373.3 9.91 3699.4

Total 2799.8 70989.9

What are the issues?

Trees…

• Historic losses/Low tree cover

• low planting rates - Only 1,420 hectares (3,507 acres) of trees were planted in England in the year to March 2019, against the government’s target of 5,000 hectares

• Disease/neglect

• Development – tree replacements not sufficient

• land availability

What do we need to do differently?

‘Our use of land must change to meet the UK’s Net Zero target’

• Plant more trees – at least 3 million!• Tree replacements at greater value than being lost• Trees as assets – understanding value

• Manage the land cover over peat to reduce emissions and increase storage potential

Paludiculture Palus (swamp) + cultura (cultivation)

Paludiculture = the cultivation of wetlands and wetland crops

Paludiculture is NOT nature conservation, it is agriculturethat can restore the peat layer.

Paludicultural crops include:

• Reeds

• Sedges

• Sphagnum mosses (carbon farming)

Research in Germany shows that sphagnum farms can rapidly begin sequestering carbon. © peakdistrict.gov

Sphagnum moss cultivation

Reed and sedge cultivation

Slide courtesy of Lancs Wildlife Trust

Why paludiculture? From carbon emission to sequestration

(Jurasinki et al, 2016)Slide courtesy of Lancs Wildlife Trust

Transition to paludicultural crops raises the water table, reduces emissions and restores the peat layer.

Discussion session:

What do you think are the barriers for managing land for carbon?

What do we need to do to overcome these barriers?

and, how can we maximise the benefits of trees and peat in GMs net zero challenge?

Why aren’t we making the changes?

Positive Note - current policy landscape

For trees:

• Trees and Woodland Strategy – 3m trees - 500,000 since 2016

• Northern forest – 50 million

• Government Planting Target - 30 million trees a year by 2025

• Budget – increased settlement for FC?

• Tree Champion – Sir William Worsley

• New incentives

Woodland Creation Incentives

And for peat…

Peatland Incentives

• Public funding – ELMS and Environmental Stewardship

• Grants – e.g. IUCN UK Peatland Programme (funded by Peter De HaanCharitable Trust) and National Lottery

• Private – through GM Natural Capital Investment Plan

• And the IUCN Peatland code

Any further questions?

For further info…

• http://cityoftrees.org.uk/

• https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2019/08/12/peat-pilots-set-to-revive-english-peatlands/

Thank you!

http://cityoftrees.org.uk/

https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2019/08/12/peat-pilots-set-to-revive-english-peatlands/

Seminar 2

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Collaborating on the Delivery of Integrated Catchment Solutions

Craig Higson and Sion Platts-Kilburn

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Introduction

Organisational challenges in delivering environmental outcomes, such as achieving ‘good’ status

What is the challenge?

There is a need to look to the future and different ways of working to meet the challenge

What is the need?

Discussing respective approaches in the Croal Catchment for illustration

Example?

Share you thoughts on the challenges and opportunities to deliver solutions in collaboration

What is the ask today?

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To promote natural capital and environmental stewardships

To reduce uncertainties around catchment management

To drive affordable solutions for water bill payers through the creation of markets to develop fair share investment

To develop better ways of working through co-governance, collaboration and partnerships, sharing investment and risk

Considering what is best for the environment and communities, integrating risks and driving multiple natural capital benefits delivering improvements to understand the needs of the catchment, identifying what is best of the catchment and communities:

Water quality, biodiversity, climate change, flooding, health & wellbeing, recreation & amenity, air quality

United Utilities – Catchment Systems Thinking Understanding the whole catchment and the needs of customers and stakeholders

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United Utilities – Catchment Systems Thinking

SCaMP Developed in Water Catchments

SCaMP was an innovative and large scale project designed to:

- Improve catchment quality - Meet nature conservation objectives

- Improve raw water quality - Ensure a sustainable future for agricultural tenants

Catchment Systems Thinking

CaST allows us to use natural capital decision making to consider whatis best for the environment, customers and communities, integratingrisks and driving multiple natural capital benefits to deliver:

- Water quality and Flooding- Future development and population growth- Resilience- Socio-economic impact

SCAMP 12005

SCAMP 2, MooreLIFE, & DWI Safety Plan

2010

SCAMP 3, MooreLIFE2020, Natural Course and

CAP - 2015

Catchment Systems Thinking Approach

2017

Catchment Systems

Operation2040

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Environment Agency - CLIMB

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Example: Croal CatchmentChallenges…

Moderate WFD

status Flooding

Technical challenges such as funding streams and

procurement

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…and Opportunities

Proposed AMP7 CroalUID locations

EA Consented Investment Programme

Net GainEA Non-consented investment programme

Example: Croal Catchment

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Example: Croal CatchmentRecap

Key Challenges Opportunities

Flooding

Moderate WFD Status

Technical e.g. funding streams

EA Non-consented investment programme

Redevelopment


AMP7 Croal UID locations

Net Gain

40

Discussion

Key Challenges Opportunities

Flooding

Moderate WFD Status

Technical e.g. funding streams

EA Non-consented investment programme

Redevelopment


AMP7 Croal UID locations

Net Gain

Perspective: what are your thoughts on the challenges,

opportunities to deliver integrated catchment solutions?

Collaboration: what areas of opportunity do we have for

collaboration?

Seminar 3

Developing a Nature Recovery Network for Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester Natural Capital Group

Annual Conference

11th February 2020

The Nature Recovery Network.

• An aspiration in the Governments 25 Year Environment Plan.

• Connecting, restoring and creating places rich in wildlife, resilient to climate change and enjoyed by people.

• The GM context - Urban centres to rural hinterland. Lowland to upland.

The Nature Recovery Network high level ambition

Connecting, restoring and creating places that are:

• rich in wildlife

• resilient to climate change

• enjoyed by people.

The NRN will create a network of nature rich places that are resilient to climate change and contribute to achieving net zero by 2050.

Whether this is by locking up carbon through peatland restoration, creating new woods, slowing flood waters.

With nature based solutions we can confront the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.

Core aspirations.

• A truly national network … not discrete projects - a strategic spatial framework for nature recovery and ecosystem restoration in both the terrestrial and marine environment.

• For nature and people – a rural and urban network providing socio-economic benefits.

• Built locally – a strategic framework locally-owned.

• Targeting and prioritising effort and investment.

• A ‘shared endeavour’ approach: planning, delivery, ownership.

• Engaging a wide range of partners.

Greater Manchester is an ecologically diverse City Region

Greater Manchester’s 6 Strategic Habitats:

• Uplands.

• Lowland Wetlands.

• Woodlands and Trees.

• Rivers.

• Grasslands.

• Urban Green Infrastructure.

Where are we now? GM’s diverse habitats

Legend

GM Administrative Boundary

Lowland raised bog

Blanket bog

Lowland fens

Upland flushes, fens and swamps

Reedbeds

Upland heathland

Fragmented heath

Lowland heathland

Mountain heaths and willow scrub

Purple moor grass and rush pastures

Grass moorland

Upland calcareous grassland

Upland hay meadow

Calaminarian grassland

Good quality semi-improved grassland

Lowland meadows

Lowland calcareous grassland

Lowland dry acid grassland

Deciduous woodland

Traditional orchard

Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh

Coastal saltmarsh

Coastal sand dunes

Saline lagoons

Coastal vegetated shingle

Limestone pavement

Maritime cliff and slope

Mudflats

No main habitat but additional habitats present

Where are we now? A network of protected sites

Where are we now? GM Local Wildlife Sites

Where are we now? Species Data - Distribution of Great Crested Newts in GM

Where are we now? Species Data – Distribution of Badgers in GM

Modelling wetland networks at a national scale

Legend

GM Administrative Boundary

Class

Priority Habitat

Associated Habitats

Restorable Habitat

Habitat Restoration-Creation

Fragmentation Action Zone

Network Enhacement Zone 1

Network Enhacement Zone 2

Network Expansion Zone

… and at a local scale

Collaborative working for multiple Nature Recovery benefits

Local Example of NRN Delivery - Central Stockport (Mersey Valley) Ecological Network

Going forward – some initial ideas

Three core strands of activity.

• Expand and integrate the evidence base and mapping.

• Develop future strategy and policy –including links to future Local Nature Recovery Strategies.

• Establish an implementation framework and long term governance.

Strand 1 – Evidence and mapping

Build on existing evidence for Ecological Networks, Natural Capital/Green Infrastructure and ecosystem services.

Establish an agreed Nature Recovery Network map for the City Region integrating the surrounding hinterland.

Strand 1 – Evidence & Mapping

• What is missing from the evidence that we already have for GM?

• Is there any evidence that you are aware of that we haven’t covered?

Strand 2 – Policy and Strategy.

Develop links to City Region and local policy frameworks, including the planning system.

Develop a strategy for future local Nature Recovery.

Strand 2- Policy and Strategy

• How should we take forward the development of a NRN for GM?

Strand 3 – Implementation Framework.

• Develop local Governance arrangements for long term implementation of the NRN.

• Integrate local objectives for Nature Recovery (ecosystems) and Natural Capital/Green Infrastructure (ecosystem services).

• Develop a resourcing strategy (including with Biodiversity Net Gain delivery and ELMS etc).

• Engage the wider public.

Ecological crisis

Climate change crisis

Health and well-being crisis.

Strand 3 - Implementation Framework

• How does this fit into existing governance arrangements – who needs to be involved in the development?

And finally. A Nature Recovery Network for Greater Manchester – what is the very next thing we need to do?

From urban core.

To rural hinterland.

Seminar 4

Increasing investment in Greater Manchester’s natural capital

#GMGreencity

Us:- Sam Evans, GMCA- Matt Ellis, Environment Agency- Jamie Mansfield, Environmental Finance

YOU!

This session

#GMGreencity

“The management of natural capital draws upon a relatively limited suite of business models and financing strategies”

Why?

• Limited suite of business models

• Lack of scale and aggregation

• Lack of business cases

• Lack of arrangements for delivery, accountability and governance

Developing business models

How can this be overcome?- Support the development of new business models- Provide a supportive policy environment

What are we doing together? - Fill the gap – selecting a partner to deliver a GM

Environment Fund- IGNITION – develop NBS business models.- Exploring carbon (via local offsetting) and habitat banking (via Biodiversity Net Gain).

Aggregating projects at scale

How can this be overcome?- Support the development of pipelines of projects across

multiple sites.

What are we doing together? - Spatial mapping – identify opportunities and sites for

investment.- IGNITION – build initial SuDS pipeline.

Supporting business case development

How can this be overcome?- Support project sponsors with technical support and

assistance

What are we doing together? - Designing the Environment Fund- IGNITION – business case for SuDS pipeline

Governance, accountability and delivery

How can this be overcome?- Establish city-region level governance arrangements for

investing in projects

What are we doing? - Establish a GM Environment Fund- IGNITION – develop delivery vehicle for SuDS pipeline

Overcoming the challenges to increasing investment in GM’s natural environment

The IGNITION experience

11 February 2020

Matt Ellis

This should be easy

because Nature ‘pays’,

doesn’t it?

1. NC projects often only draw on a

limited suite of business models and

financing strategies

2. Difficulty to aggregate NC projects into

pipelines at scale

3. Where projects exist, investible

business cases often do not

4. Delivery, accountability governance

arrangements can be lacking

Sadly, its not that straight

forward…

Create a project pipeline

Develop business

models and funding

mechanisms

Build investor

confidence

Create an enabling

environment through

stakeholder engagement

Create a Living Lab

Develop a special purpose

vehicle to contract to deliver and

maintain the projects

IGNITION – a stepwise

solution to overcoming the

challenges?

A business case for a SuDS

retrofit pipeline

By summer 2020 – developing

a business case for

investment in a package of

publicly owned sites suitable

for SuDS.

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https://www.uia-initiative.eu/en

An Illustration - The Moorlands

Primary School demo site

• A 239 pupils in Sale, part

of the Borough of Trafford

• Originally band 6 - £5364

497m2 disconnected to

drop to band 5

• At time of intervention, a

saving of £2950pa was

generated, or circa £45k

over 15 years

Financially viable Financially and technically

viable

GM Sites 335 219

Capex £3.4m

15yr saving £6.2m

SuDS M2 105,000m2 – over 15 Wembley football pitches

A SuDS pipeline package at

scale that makes returns for the

investor?

Create a project pipeline

Develop business

models and funding

mechanisms

Build investor

confidence

Create an enabling

environment through

stakeholder engagement

Create a Living Lab

Develop a special purpose

vehicle to contract to deliver and

maintain the projects

IGNITION – will it overcome

the challenges?

www.ignitiongm.com

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What is the opportunity for investment?

Environmental Finance is working with the GMCA to develop and launch a Greater Manchester Environment Fund.

• Greater Manchester has ambitious targets to become a leading European green city and achieve carbon neutrality by 2038.

• There is considerable need to mobilise additional investment to deliver Greater Manchester’s natural capital priorities.

• The GMCA are developing a Greater Manchester Environment Fund (GMEF) to support the city region with its green ambitions.

• The GMEF will take a strategic approach to increase investment in the city region’s natural capital.

Amount of funding needed each year to preserve and restore global ecosystems

£300bn

Growth in the Green Bonds Market from 2012-16, rising from £1.5bn to £150bn with an expected demand of c.£400bn

£8bn

316%

Private investments tracked per year into ecosystem restoration and climate resilience in the US

Global natural capital investment opportunity


Why is investment needed?

Projects that protect or enhance Greater Manchester’s natural capital require a significant amount of funding

Greater Manchester’s NC Project Funding Need

Gap

Potential GMEF

Donative Income**

Total Estimated Funding Needs for Already identified

Natural Capital Projects*

>£100mNeed to identify new forms of finance to

deliver the city region’s natural capital

objectives

* Based on initial list of 26 projects; a further 25 projects have been identified but not yet costed.** Will depend upon a separate process to be performed to raise charitable donations.

Health and wellbeing

Water quality payments

Flood management

Agri-environment

Biodiversity offsets

Carbon credits

Business levies

Ecotourism

Emerging Revenue Sources for GM’s NC Projects


What are the potential funding sources for the GMEF?

Donations

1

Charges / taxes

2

Payments for Ecosystem Services / Levies and credits

3

Landfill tax

Enforcement Funds

Petrol taxes

Plastic bag / cup levies

Carparking charges

Biodiversity offsets

Water quality

paymentsFlood

paymentsCarbon credits

Business levies

Company sponsorship

Individual donations

National government

PhilanthropyLocal

government


What could the GMEF look like?

The GMEF could provide governance and leverage funding to support the development and implementation of investable natural capital business models to deliver a significant increase in investment in the city region

Greater Manchester Environment FundUnrestricted donations /

income

Charitable Trust(s)

Environmental Projects

Carbon Trading Vehicle

Habitat Bank

Facility

Investment Readiness Funding

Management

Contract

Investors

Returns

Investment

Investment

Local Enterprise

Fund

Investment Strategy and Governance

Restricted donations /

income

Direct Grants

Third party verification

Returns


Example Investment Model: Habitat Bank

Greater Manchester has ambitious targets to embed biodiversity net gain within development, providing a strategic opportunity to lead the creation of a Habitat Bank as an operating system to deliver specific biodiversity targets of different local authorities across the city region.

Project Structure

Habitat Bank Facility

LA Habitat

Bank

Loan

LA Habitat

Bank

Property developer(s)

Local authority(s)

Mitigation payments

Mitigation payments

Investment Returns

Investors

Biodiversity credits

VerificationIndependent verification

Habitat Bank OperatorBiodiversity

credits

Management

Baseline assessments

Example

HabitatsHabitats

EndowmentPortion of

credits

Fees

Repayment

Funding

Contract


Potential Habitat Bank Pilot Programme

Habitat Bank Facility

Investment in priority habitats of each LA

A near-term pilot could take place with interested local authorities to raise investment through a Habitat Bank Vehicle, while enabling Local Authorities to retain control of their own mitigation payments and habitat creation priorities.

VerificationIndependent verification

Habitat Bank

Salford

Habitat Bank

Stockport

Habitat Bank

Oldham

Loans Repayments


Example Investment Model: Carbon Trading Vehicle

With GMCA’s ambition to become carbon neutral by 2038 and an increasing corporate focus on carbon mitigation efforts, GMCA is in a strong position to develop a carbon trading vehicle to accredit and monetise carbon credits from natural assets.

Example

GM’s Carbon Sink Assets

Carbon Trading Vehicle

Investors Corporates

Accredited carbon credits

Carbon funding

Investment in GM carbon assets

Investment

Returns

Verification

Independent verification

Project Structure

Accredited carbon credits


Questions

• What are the potential sources of funding for the GMEF?

• What are the other potential Natural Capital Investment Models that could be prioritised?

• What is needed to establish the Investment Models?

−Who needs to be involved?

−What projects could be piloted?

−What are the risks/barriers?

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Seminar 5

EMBEDDING GREEN AND

BLUE PRESCRIPTION IN

SOCIAL PRESCRIBING

February 2020

Greater Manchester Health

and Social Care Partnership

Inhalers

• The climate and ecological

crisis is the greatest threat

to our health and wellbeing

• Increase inequalities

(locally, globally,

intergenerational)

• GMHSC is committed to a

comprehensive

sustainability plan

• Partnership working

through the Greater

Manchester Five Year

Plan for the Environment

Climate Emergency

Declaration



Natural environment Ambitions

• GMHSCP will ensure that their approach to developing a Greater Manchester

Population Health system understands the importance of the natural

environment as a key wider determinant of health, and seeks to ensure that

action undertaken is reflective of that understanding.

• GMHSCP will promote the health benefits of green space to their staff,

patients and the wider community and will maximise the opportunities to

incorporate this into their programmes such as, but not exclusive to, those

relating to Person and Community Centred Approaches (PCCA), Physical

Activity, Mental Wellbeing and Clean Air. Where possible, GMHSCP will

maximise the availability of green and natural areas on estates.



GM SOCIAL PRESCRIBING

Person & Community Centred Approaches

10 localities now have social prescribing

Established GM Social Prescribing

Network

Link worker development:

connecting and supporting the local workforce

Sustainability of Social Prescribing and community investment

within placed-based integration and PCN

PROGRESS

PRIORITIES

AIMS

13,000

referrals by

March 2020

Social Prescribing IT

platform implementation

Social Prescribing IT platform to record & track

activity/outcomes

GM Toolkit for

Social

Prescribing

Q2 numbers 13,000

Successful bid to

digital fund for one

SP IT platform

Largest city region to

have social

prescribing available

Implementation of platform and

shared outcomes framework

https://www.boltoncvs.org.uk/sites/boltoncvs.org.uk/files/social_final_1920x1080.mp4



EXAMPLES GREEN & BLUE SOCIAL PRESCRIPTIONS…TO NAME BUT A FEW…1. International:

– https://bluehealth2020.eu/

2. National:

– Social Farms & Gardens: https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/

– https://idlewomen.org/2019/07/24/mud-to-medicine/

3. National/Local

– RHS Bridgewater Wellbeing Garden: https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/bridgewater

4. Regional:

– Sow the City :http://www.sowthecity.org/

5. Local:

– Garden Needs: https://gardenneeds.org.uk

– Incredible Education: https://www.incredibleeducation.co.uk/

https://bluehealth2020.eu/

https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/

https://idlewomen.org/2019/07/24/mud-to-medicine/

https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/bridgewater

http://www.sowthecity.org/

https://gardenneeds.org.uk/

https://www.incredibleeducation.co.uk/



WHAT'S THE EVIDENCE

FOR USING GREEN AND

BLUE PRESCRIPTIONS?

• Well, it gets you out of the house for a start off, it gets you to meet people, people you've never seen before, and you become friends and, you know,

• “And we are being … you feel as though you are being of some value”

• “It’s the sense of achievement of how you do something, you see growing”.

• It’s helped me in as much as I'm a lot more activated outside, with the digging and planting and harvesting

Bragg, R & Leck, J (2017): The role of nature-based interventions:

Natural England.

Soga M, Cox DTC, Yamaura Y, Gaston KJ, Kurisu K, Hanaki K. Health

Benefits of Urban Allotment Gardening: Improved Physical and

Psychological Well-Being and Social Integration. International Journal of

Environmental Research and Public Health. 2017;14(1).

Whear R, Coon JT, Bethel A, Abbott R, Stein K, Garside R. What Is the

Impact of Using Outdoor Spaces Such as Gardens on the Physical and

Mental Well-Being of Those With Dementia? A Systematic Review of

Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence. Journal of the American Medical

Directors Association. 2014;15(10):697-705.

Mixed methods….

Howarth, Brettle, Hardman & Maden (2018)

Published Evidence

“I think this place…well, I know that

this place has saved my life”

Increasing engagement with our natural environment.

Why Myplace?• Inverse Care Law- Julian Tudar Hart in a paper for The Lancet

(1971). Those who most need health care are least likely to receive it.

• Our history so far (Big Lottery/ ESF)• 11 yrs through to Men in Sheds (50yrs plus)• It should feel therapeutic without being a treatment- we are non

clinical • Small groups, supported engagement and connection to nature• Create positive environments• Build resilience banks

Where does Myplace sit as an NHS partner?

• Recovery Strategy

• Public Health prevention

• Social Prescribing and those who can not self serve.

• Respite

How did we set up Myplace?

• Recruitment of staff

• Staff training/ ongoing CPD

• Risk assessments

• Small groups with high staff, volunteer, trainee numbers

• Network of ecotherapy hubs

• Outreach work

• Non clinical interventions

• Engaging with the NHS- Top down vs bottom up.

Referrals

• Where they come from

• How we manage them, a central database

• fast response

• Initial meeting

• Registration, evaluation and monitoring

• Safeguarding and appropriateness of referrals

Myplace 5 types of practical activity:

Bushcraft

Practical Conservation

EnvironmentalMindfulness

GrowingProjects

Wildlife Walks

What and How?Person-centred Delivery

Personal Development

• Outcome Stars (workstar/ youthstar/ wellbeing star)• The positive challenge of ESF- creating realistic aspirations is

important for improving wellbeing. Our Bright Future key ask, a request for more employment options. Reaching Communities-isolation and social development.

• Creating a strong network of people championing Natures Recovery

• Coproduction needs to be central.• Youth Council• Health and Wellbeing Forum

Numbers- How are we doing?• Supported over 1200 participants so far

• 400+ referrals from LCFT, increasing continually, Now receiving referrals from GMMH in Bolton.

• Over 30 sessions per week.

Waiting list work with CAMHS, Mindsmatter, East Lancashire Childrens Psychology Team and proactive outreach with HARRI and Community Restart, as well as the Recovery College.

Outreach- a change in approach• Community Lunch Clubs• GPs• Supported housing schemes• Job Centres• Schools, Pupil referral units, SEND• Self Referrals and many more

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What are our Measures?

• Numbers of participants• Wellbeing (outcome stars and evaluations-

WEMWEBS/ Loneliness/ Connection to nature/ Resilience/ Qualitative/ post intervention)

• Education, employment, and training• Personal development• Greenspaces improved• Community Engagement

The Cove The Harbour

Ecotherapy at inpatients facilities

Growing DemandChorley HospitalBlackburn HospitalBolton HospitalPrestwich

What next?

• Work based interventions

• Early intervention

• More work with Primary Care and Public Health (eg Suicide Prevention Fund)

• Wider partnership work (Mind)

• Wider training and support for those on other programmes across LWT.

• Strategy for increased core commissioning

• Increased research, pushing for systemic change.

Evaluation Data

• UCLan

• External Evaluator

• Contributing to TWT research

• Challenges and learning

• Warrick Ed. Results for young people, overall move from 45.8 to 47. For those who start with below ave wellbeing they increase by 7.1

• Results for adults range from 42 to 52, and for those with below ave wellbeing it rises by 12.5 points.



NATURAL ENVIRONMENT…GOOD

1. Green and blue prescriptions could be used as part of a

social prescription?

2. What are the key enablers and challenges…



SURVEY OF SOCIAL PRESCRIBING

LEADS

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

Fully Understand Some Understanding

Awareness Level of Benefits of Nature/Green Space

% Responding



SURVEY OF SOCIAL PRESCRIBING LEADS

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Frequently Sometimes Never

Frequecy of Referrals to Nature Programms

% Responding



BARRIERS

“NHS priorities

getting in the way of

prevention agendas”

“Lack of awareness

and connections”

“Cost to those

organisations

referred to (can VCSE

cope with increased

numbers?)” 0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

Unsure how to find Unsure about offerdetails

Other

Barriers to Referring/Linking with Nature Based Programmes

% Responding



KEY QUESTIONS TO EMBEDDING GREEN AND BLUE PRESCRIPTIONS INTO SOCIAL PRESCRIBING

1.How can we encourage social prescribing

schemes to value the natural environment?

2.How do we use the evidence to promote

the use of green and blue prescriptions?

3.How do we support social prescribing

schemes to better access the natural

environment?



DISCUSSION ON HOW WE MEET PREVIOUSLY LISTED CHALLENGES

1.What's the priority we are looking to address?

2.Where do we want to get to?

3.What are we currently doing to get there?

4.What else do we need to do?

5.Who else needs to be involved?



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Sophie Glinka | Social Prescribing

Lead

Greater Manchester Health & Social

Care Partnership

07746852134

[email protected] MICHELLE HOWARTH

Senior Lecturer/ Deputy Director

PGR

School of Health & Society

Salford University

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