GroundsWell Blog

The Citadel Youth Centre recently hosted a Community Outreach Day as part of the Dear Green Place project. The event highlighted how green and blue spaces in Leith can support mental health and inspire community connections.

When discussing urban areas and the environment, the importance of green spaces and their benefits to health and wellbeing is often mentioned, but what about blue spaces, and do they have the same benefits?

A study from Queen’s researchers finds an increase of green space in most deprived urban neighbourhoods of England, NI, and Scotland is associated with lower preventable death count

In Edinburgh, GroundsWell have recently partnered with the Citadel Youth Centre for a new project, Dear Green Place. In this blog, youth worker Ryan McKay who is leading the project discusses how the partnership will bring benefits to the community.

At GroundsWell, we believe that our towns and cities should be designed to support the health and wellbeing of every resident. This post details our response to the UK government's proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

UK Prevention Research Partnership funded consortia, GroundsWell and VISION, worked together to assess the conditional association between green space and crime.

Kassy Price, GroundsWell's Community Blogger from Liverpool investigates the role our urban green spaces can play during the cost of living crisis.

Dr Chris Tate & Dr Ruoyu Wang discuss their recent published articles looking at the impact of the Connswater Community Greenway on communities

Kassy Price, GroundsWell's Community Blogger from Liverpool details her experience of working in and with community gardens.

Dr Claire Cleland and Dr Niamh O'Kane detail their site visit to Cornwall, to look for inclusive beaches, and to explore The Eden Project

Terry Bryant, the new Public Adviser Co-lead for the Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast, gives his take on a recent public session discussing "Big Data". GroundsWell will be using this going forwards to shape our data practices.

On 1st February 2023 the government announced that every household in England will be within a 15-minute walk of green space or water, under a major environmental plan. Dr Wendee Zhang investigated what that really meant...

After the blog post written by Kassy Price outlining her thoughts on the designs for Dock Branch Park in Birkenhead, four members of the Liverpool GroundsWell team visited the park site on 2nd February 2023. The tour was organised by Wirral Council.

Kassy Price, our community blogger in Liverpool visited a community engagement event around the designs for Dock Branch Park in Birkenhead and these were her thoughts...