Last year, colleagues from Highgate Cemetery joined the Healthy Parks and Green Space Network I jointly run with Gemma Moore and Liza Griffin from UCL’s Bartlett Faculty. The Cemetery team also generously hosted our first in-person meeting, in one of their chapels. We organised a “green walk” to this from Archway station to help participants
Demonstrating public health outcomes achieved, let alone attributing them to specific interventions, can be a challenge. So, it is especially pleasing that Camden and Islington are finalists in this year’s Municipal Journal Awards in the Delivering Better Outcomes category for their work to improve health and reduce health inequalities through access to parks and green
One of the joys of working on the Parks for Health project (and there were many) was feeling part of a team. The respect for each other of the Camden and Islington green spaces officers, their public health colleagues and partners from the VCSE and health sectors was manifest from the outset. Partly this was