Our Themes

Improving health and wellbeing

The Green Halo Partnership can help improve the health and wellbeing of our population by:

Catalysing new thinking and fresh ideas
Encouraging partnerships and collaborative working to deliver joint projects and programmes. We are particularly keen to build relationships between the private, public and not-for-profit sectors
Ensuring decision-making is informed by robust data on the case for investing in health and wellbeing
Raising awareness of the contribution the natural environment makes to our health and wellbeing.

The Green Health Hub is a Green Halo project managed by the New Forest National Park Authority on behalf of the organisitions and groups represented on the site, collectively known as the Green Health Network.

We will ground all we do in our local environment, ensuring that our natural assets – from woodland, rivers and open spaces to our diverse wildlife – can help improve people’s mental and physical health and wellbeing. In doing so, we will help protect and enhance those assets, and so secure the benefits they offer society.

Blog: The value of natural capital to health and wellbeing

By Dr James Alden I am James, a paediatrician (children, not feet), by training and have been working for the New Forest National Park in the role of Public Health clinical fellow for nearly a year now. It has been a steep learning curve for me, but incredibly rewarding…

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New Forest Volunteer Fair

The New Forest Volunteer Fair attracts over 50 organisations and 750 potential volunteers to the one-day event each January.

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The ‘natural health service’

A joint accord launched in 2017 to encourage more people to experience the many health benefits of getting out and active in National Parks.

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Netwalking

Netwalking brings business people together to discuss business challenges and ideas in an outdoor environment. Enjoy a walk in the New Forest, gain inspiration from the change of environment and support from like-minded business people.

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"The Green Halo is about growing a joint vision for natural capital and a platform for partnership to realise our vision. It’s exciting to see such a wide range of partners coming together."
Alison Barnes
Convener of the Green Halo Partnership