Great Outdoors Project Activities Archive 2008

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We followed this up with a community wreath making event with 30 families in the Quarry Green (Old Rough) area in Kirkby on Dec 8th, a partnership event with Knowsley Housing Trust Dream Team to support tenant volunteering events. Some of the families made wreaths to give to older residents in local sheltered housing.

Keeping warm and well making festive wreaths from natural materials.

More pictures are on the archive events images page.

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Key topics were
- wildflowers for health promoting places
- Knowsley's health action in parks
- Community allotments & food growing
- Horticultural creativity and mental health

The very successful day was fully booked and included a delicious home
cooked lunch in our Cornflower Café, to highlight the importance of locally
grown food and good culinary skills. People responded well to speakers,
and mix of lively presentation, creative thinking, workshops and natural
sociability! Particular thanks to our speakers Fiona Mather from Knowsley
MBC, Phil Dewhurst from Offshoots permaculture project in Burnley - another
Target: Wellbeing project - and Elizabeth Hammond from Start in Salford arts project.

Click here for the Programme and Event Flyer



Well attended Nature and Public Health open day explored ideas for using nature to support better wellbeing.

More pictures are on the archive events images page.

Great Outdoors is celebrating the end of the wildflower season and seed
harvest by joining the Knowsley Walking Festival and Mental Health Awareness Day event. We will be walking from Kirkby - where our wildflowers have been so spectacular this summer -to Huyton in Knowsley. Merseyside. Alternative walks will start from Stockbridge Village, north Huyton, or from Halewood, all to finish at the Huyton Suite, Huyton Village, Knowsley. After the walk, we will be treated to a buffet and live music.

If anyone would like to join Great Outdoors to walk, please contact
jpell@landlife.org.uk tel 0151 737 1819

Sunday 5th October 2008, 11.30 am to 2 pm, in the Octagon Room at the Huyton Suite (lunch provided). The organisers of Mental Health Awareness Day and Knowsley Walking Festival 2008 have joined forces to promote healthy bodies and healthy minds in Knowsley. This celebration event will take place on Sunday 5th October and aims to encourage people to get out and about and discover the footpaths of Knowsley. Walking is a great activity and can help improve mood, reduce depression and increase general health and wellbeing.

The festival is a social event for all walkers and is particularly ideal for people who are thinking about getting more active. There will be three walks to chose from, starting in Kirkby, Halewood or Stockbridge Village and all three will end at the Huyton Suite, where there will be a celebration with a buffet, market place information stands and live music.

If you would like more information on Mental Health Promotion activities, contact Jayne Moore on 0151 285 6012, or e-mail Jayne.moore@knowsley.nhs.uk.

For more information about the Knowsley Walking Festival call Susannah Jones on 0151 285 6009 or email Susannah.Jones@knowsley.nhs.uk

Pedal Away
Pedal Away is a Borough wide initiative providing a variety of cycle
related activities aiming to have a long term positive effect on the physical
and mental well being of individuals. Community cycle rides info.

In partnership with

Northwood Allotments Open Day
August 29th 2008.
12.30pm to 4pm, Northwood Community Centre,
Gilescroft Avenue, Kirkby For more information contact northwoodmums@hotmail.co.uk or tel 0151 443 4381

KHT Tenants Open Day at St George V Sports Complex Wed 20th August 12.30pm to 6pm

Knowsley Flower Show Sun 10th August 2008
National Wildflower Centre and Court Hey Park, Knowsley.
www.knowsley.gov.uk Knowsley Flower Show web site.

Kirkby Festival 19th of July 2008.
Millbrook Park, Millennium Green, Old Hall Lane, Kirkby. More information.

Pictures are available on our archive events images page

Liverpool Heart and Chest Festival Sat 5th July 2008
Broadgreen Hospital, Thomas Drive, Liverpool.
Web site www.ctc.nhs.uk

Pictures are available on our archive events images page.

Storytelling Walks Summer 2008.
A series of walks and storytelling in Knowsley.
Pictures are available on our 'Events images page.

In Partnership with

Link to Word Document about the events.

Love Parks Walk. 14th June 2008.
Walkers were given a guided tour of Court Hey Park and enjoyed a fine day out in the fresh air as well as experiencing a healthy stroll.

Pictures are available on our archive events images page. Video.

Green Fayre Event June 8th 2008.
Court Hey Park, Roby road, Knowsley.
Landlife were busy promoting Great Outdoors at the Green Fayre as part of an exciting new programme in Knowsley promoting better health and wellbeing. We had a lively marquee with creative 'green' activities for kids and a focus on 'Plants for Health' with information on the powerful qualities and benefits of our native weeds and wildflowers!

We were joined by Pedal Away, a new cycling project, with lots of bikes to try including some for people with disabilities. We were also promoting new Storytelling with Wildflowers Walks in partnership with Knowsley Primary Care Trust and Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Ranger Service. These will run through the summer and we are particularly keen to get children and families along to enjoy our beautiful wildflowers with fun storytelling along the way - two will take place in Court Hey Park. Knowsley CVS also came along to promote V - new volunteering opportunities for young people.

The Green Fayre was a great success and we all enjoyed the lovely family
atmosphere that filled the park, making it a great place to spend the day!
We want to do more outdoor activities to encourage better use of our parks and greenspaces. Great Outdoors will be busy throughout the summer,
celebrating all the beautiful wildflowers we have been sowing to make the
environment healthy too. Working with Pedal Away and Knowsley Council, we also hope to develop the National Wildflower Centre as a local cycling and walking 'hub'. For more information.