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Parks for Urban Health: Bringing People to Nature and Nature to People

May 10, 2021

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‘There’s an innate health and wellbeing response to looking in to the eyes of a cow.’ On Tuesday morning, I dashed to Kentish Town City Farm to make a donation and claim some of their superb manure for my allotment. Under COVID-19 restrictions, you can’t get past the farm gate without pre-booking (though there is still a

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Improving wellbeing through urban nature and civic connection

May 7, 2019

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Last week, I was privileged to be on the closing panel of the Improving wellbeing through urban nature (IWUN) ‘research into practice’ event, convened by Sheffield’s renowned Landscape Architecture Department. We are not short of evidence that access to nature is good for our health, but IWUN offers a much needed set of principles for

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Finding place and quiet

March 9, 2018

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Space, peace and quiet are luxuries if you live in a city, and anywhere if resources are tight. But while we all need to get away from time to time, I’m resistant to the idea that tranquility has to be separate from rather than integral to urban life. Designed right, a city can offer places

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Catherine led the development of our trust’s Green Plan. She was a pleasure to work with, bringing to the table local insight, together with a proactive approach to problem solving, always responding flexibly and intelligently to our changing requirements. I look forward to working with Catherine again in the future.

Director of Operational and Service Redesign
Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Catherine brought knowledge, insight and incisive reasoning to our discussions and her willingness to give her time and energy have made her a huge asset. She has a wonderful way of coming back to important points when we gloss over them and where necessary makes sure we action them. The Association has been very fortunate to have Catherine serve on both the Environment & Sustainability and Research & Grants Committees, and she is more than deserving of the Association Award.

Association of Anaesthetists
Richard and Catherine provided us with expert guidance and personal support along a journey of improvement and cultural change. By bringing together operational staff, managers, trustees and volunteers they have shown us how we can work better together at setting direction, delivering our priorities and measuring the quality, effectiveness and impact of everything we do.

Chief Executive
Architects Benevolent Society
Catherine and Matt are a pleasure to collaborate with. They combine expertise, creativity and pragmatism to deliver high quality work which provides a sound basis for future action.

Chief Executive
Care City
Catherine impressed us straight away with her quick grasp of the essentials and the ferocious energy she displayed in coming to grips not just with the immediate problem but with the underlying issues which had left us in a very weak position.

Executive Member for Culture
London Borough of Camden
Working with Catherine is so easy. Her knowledge, skill and determination are balanced with common sense. There is never a feeling that she is just recycling material off the shelf. It is always fresh, relevant and challenging. And it’s always on time.

Deputy Regional Director (Social Care)
Department of Health
Catherine ran two creative and inspiring sessions for the Citizen’s Council which enabled members to grapple with the concept of ‘societal value’. Council members with different backgrounds and perspectives were encouraged to challenge their own and others’ ideas constructively, and this helped set the tone for the sessions which followed.

Associate Director, Research and Development
NICE
Catherine has worked with SCIE to deliver an innovative and unique programme of work that has placed sustainability as a key consideration in the provision of social care. Her skill has been to work successfully with all of the stakeholders in health and social care, including people who use services, to ensure that our research and guidance is genially co-produced.

Director
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Catherine has generated excellent consultancy work for NHS Tower Hamlets. She is good with stakeholders, joins things up and produces reports of high quality. I like the fact that she follows up on the work and is obviously genuinely committed to getting results.

Associate Director (Employment)
NHS Tower Hamlets

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