Equals IW is awarded £4,885 to deliver a new community programme called Green Time - The Natural Way to Good Emotional Well-being and Mental Health.

Green Time Key Elements

Green Time has five key elements running through the entire programme

  • Connect with people around you to support and enrich your everyday life
  • Be active as exercising makes you feel good, step outside.
  • Take notice to be aware of the world around you and what you are feeling.
  • Keep Learning new things will make you more confident as well as being fun.
  • Give or do something nice for someone. Volunteer or join a community group.
Green Time Will
  • Promote social renewal by bringing local communities together to experience the joy of engaging with other people to promote positive emotional well-being and mental health through fun and enjoyable engagement activities.
  • Improved and maintained health and social well-being.
  • Bringing together people from all backgrounds, cultures and income groups, embracing cultural enrichment.
  • Promotion of equality, diversity and understanding of own culture and those of others
  • Using effective local partnerships to bring together key providers and relevant local agencies and services.
  • Supporting the wide use of online information and learning resources.
  • Enhanced personal development and social skills, enhancing own self-confidence, self-belief and self-esteem, motivation.
  • Enable participants to have the ability to feel safe in a group.
  • Enable participants to make new friends and to have a healthy sense of self-worth and confidence to independently contribute to local community and wider society.

Green Time - The Natural Way to Good Emotional Well-being and Mental Health