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Dr Sanaa Sheikh General Practice Registrar – Public Health shares her story about discovering her local park It is said that interacting with nature can do wonders for our mental and physical health – something that I didn’t quite appreciate until recently. Sitting one afternoon in my GP office, with the rain and sound ofContinue reading “A bolt from the blue?”

The people who are making spaces for nature in Birmingham I am the Community Facilitator for the Future Parks Accelerator Project and I set out last Saturday morning with my bag packed full of the weighty plans, policies and processes that Birmingham City Council and its partners are working on now and for the nextContinue reading “Our City of Nature”

A Springtime Bike Ride It’s a sunny April spring morning, with a bit of a chill wind gently blowing, I set out on my bike to ride through my local park/nature reserve buy a newspaper. The yellow of the Tete-a-Tete daffodils planted by the pathway is fading as they battle with the growing grass that’sContinue reading “Reflecting on Spring”

A poem from: Dr Ana-Maria Mircea who is working with our team In this space, this quiet place, I can hear my inner peace Every step I take into her embrace I can feel the dirt and rocks, shuffle and crack beneath my feet as the breeze caresses my cheek This green panorama now envelopsContinue reading “Nature’s Cradle”

Following a “Storytelling for Communication and Engagement” session I did last year, I received some really interesting feedback around story writing and story telling in general. But also around how simply talking (sharing our day to day stories) can be so beneficial to our mental health. Another theme was how inspirational green spaces can beContinue reading “Short Stories”

We are please to be able to introduce you to a map with a difference – Birmingham’s Greenground map, and to try it out we asked one of our team to see what she thought of it. Hayat has joined us as a Kick Start placement – and she is doing a great job sharingContinue reading “Birmingham’s Greenground Map”

           Stories are shared in lots of different ways. They can be read from a book or spoken, or shared through pictures and poems     Here is Dr Hajra Shah’s story called “Nature at its core”       Walking down the woods Holding those tiny hands Listening to singing birds Running behind the butterflies Jumping from that tree stumpContinue reading “Nature at its core”

Humera Sultan – Naturally Birmingham Project Director reflects on the changes that have happen since the project began. It’s been a long while since I wrote a blog for the Naturally Birmingham website. A lot has happened in the last 18 months. We’ve been living through a global pandemic, adjusting to working and schooling fromContinue reading “Parks and Recreation”

Through the summer we asked people to give us their “Earth Stories”. Earth Stories don’t need to be epic tales, simply a chance to understand how people connect with nature, hear their memories, find out their fears and hopes and to give us an insight into what people need and how important green spaces areContinue reading “The Future Starts Today”