Community network North London Cares helps ensure older and more vulnerable people stay cool and hydrated in the summer months, and warm in the winter, through its Islington-based projects Hot in the City and Winter Warmth.

Thoughts from Catherine on working alongside service users on climate change and sustainable development initiatives (Greener Mental Health Summit, April 2010).

Volunteers from the Union of Jewish Students gave their time, energy and a good dose of humour on Mitzvah Day International (2012) to kick-start a gardening project at Equinox Southampton Way, a care home for men with enduring mental ill health. (Many Hands Make Light Work, 20 November 2012.)