1. Women Taking Action for a Healthier Planet
Hello,
My name is *******, im from the womens environmental network and im going to be talking to you today about environmenstrual, thats WEN’s programme about the alternatives to disposable sanitary protection. 1

2. Local Healthy Sustainable Food
Grow your own food
Community gardens, organic and urban

3. Tower Hamlets Food Growing Network
Coordinated by WEN.
Previously funded by LBTH Public Health
Supporting communities come together to grow food.
Raise the profile by promoting impacts and use of green projects
First point of entry to inspire getting involved with gardening, food growing, nature and environment.

4. Grassroots
to Global

6. CCG Innovation Bursary

7. Green Prescriptions
- Social prescriptions linking people with high support needs
Mapping
Lack of capacity
Lack of awareness of broader outcomes.
In 2016 Tower Hamlets CCG rolled out social prescribing across its 8 GP Networks, that each now run a different model of patient support, and referral system to the wider community projects and services. However there have been only marginal numbers of referrals to ‘green’ projects that clearly should be part of a new solution for the health and social care system helping to reduce dema
Unique model – social prescribers, wellbeing link workers, networking breakfasts, .
Social prescribers are now contacting city farms and community gardens asking for money to set up their own gardening projects when numerous community groups are in need of referrals!! And asking the charity sector for funding! 7 7 7

8. Tower Hamlets Green Care Partnership
CCG Innovation Bursary
Borough wide vision linking nature and health
Evidence based
Delivered 16 Taster Sessions showcasing services for 87 providers and 34 referrals
Working together to:
Ensure Quality
Safe, best practice service
Demonstrate outcomes
Streamline support
We have created a partnership between 6 leading green care providers:
Stepney, Spitalfields and Mudchute City farms, TH Cemetery Park that boast londons most urban woodland. Furry Tales – the only specialist animal assisted activity organisation working with people with dementia in nursing homes and hospitals. And recently the Bromley by Bow centre joined the partnership. None of these organisations have worked collaboratively before despite most being around since the late 1970’s.
Collectively they have over 200 year of engaging local communities with nature, and represent 70 acres of community run green space in this densely populated urban borough, roughly one third of the size of Victoria park and a hugely important health resource within Tower Hamlets. 8 8 8

9. Feminist Environmental Leadership
We want to get more women’s voices into the environmental movement, and particularly BAME women
Feminist leadership?

10. Events, briefings, campaigns
#Environmenstrual
Careful beauty
Events, briefings, campaigns

11. A LONG HISTORY OF CAMPAIGNING FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH

13. What are we looking for?
Organisations who want to collaborate on events and campaigns
Organisations who want to collaborate on funded projects
Organisations and individuals who want to use our resources/ make connections with our projects
Funding partners