Mobilising Community Assets - Phase One

Projects began in January 2022. This phase funded 12 pilot projects up to £180,000 for 12 months. These projects focus on how to scale up small, local approaches for addressing health inequalities.

Phase One Projects:

• Rooted in Nature: scaling up a programme of nature-based activities for a diverse group of young people in Middlesbrough
• Art at the Start: creative community intervention for perinatal and infant mental health
• Prescribe Heritage Highland: scaling up non-pharmaceutical interventions in remote and rural areas
• Wild Swimming and Blue Spaces: mobilising interdisciplinary knowledge and partnerships to combat health disparities at scale
• Arts and Culture in Health Ecosystems (ARCHES)
• Social Prescribing for All (SP4ALL): increasing diversity in cultural and natural social prescribing programmes through shared training
• Scaling-up Human Henge: using prehistoric cultural heritage sites to enhance mental health well-being in marginalized communities
• Branching Out: tackling mental health disparities in schools with community artscapers
• Arts for the Blues: towards integrating the use of the arts in healthcare and cultural settings to tackle depression and improve wellbeing in the north-west
• Connecting Roots: co-creating a green social prescribing network in Walsall for health and wellbeing
• Scaling Up Inspiring Ashfield: extending place-based social prescribing support across mid-Nottinghamshire
• Phoenix Takes Flight (PTF): exploring usability and scalability challenges with community-based health support via social prescribing