Northern Roots shares grassroots approach to Green Social Prescribing at NatureMind Summit

This month Steph Wild, our Natural Health Service Lead, joined organisations from across the Green Social Prescribing sector at the fifth annual NatureMind Summit in Castleton.

The summit aims to bringing together professionals to share best practice, innovative ideas and lived experience, and to support greater collaboration across the natural health sector.

Steph was invited by Dr Michelle Howarth from Edge Hill University, a long-time collaborator at the Natural Health Service, and the Academic and Practitioner Research in Nature (APRIN) Network to collaborate on a presentation and interactive workshop. Steph was also joined by Molly Aldam from the National Academy for Social Prescribing and Natural England, Dr Jess Thompson, Director of City of Trees, and Dr Rachel Bragg, lead UK researcher for the GreenME project, of which Northern Roots is the UK urban case study.

Together they explored how Green Social Prescribing could be scaled at national, regional and local levels, using the Natural Health Service as a prime example of how community rooted approaches can connect people with nature to support health and wellbeing.

The session was also an opportunity to hear from and connect with a wide range of organisations including Mind Over Mountains, City of Trees, Natural England, the National Academy for Social Prescribing, Youth Action UK, Resilient Young Minds, NHS England, the Woodland Trust and others.

Want to learn more about scaling green social prescribing? Read the latest GreenMe case study, featuring Northern Roots.

‘Learning from real-world conditions to advance Green Care for mental health equity in the Global North: Protocol for a transdisciplinary multi-scalar project’ – Michelle Howarth et al, 2026