Upcoming Webinar details
Thursday 20th January 6-7 pm
You can’t fit a star shaped tool into a tick-box shaped hole
Joy MacKeith will share her learning from her research. She has developed 44 versions of the outcomes star and how to support their use. Each new star involves research and modelling of the change process for people facing particular challenges. This event will explore six core principles of enabling and delivering help. To find out more and register for this event click here.
Thriving Communities webinar 25 January 2022, 3-4 pm
‘We Are Undefeatable’ - overcoming barriers to physical activity and how social prescribing can be part of the solution.
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When you think of a physical activity you might picture running on a treadmill at the gym, going to an exercise class, or the dreaded goal of achieving 5 x 30 minutes of moderate exercise every week. In this webinar, we will debunk the myths that surround how to get people to exercise more and look at what recent studies have shown are the barriers and effective motivations to increased physical activity.
With the Richmond Group of Charities and their ‘We Are Undefeatable’ campaign, we will show how social prescribing can help anyone, but particularly those with long term conditions, to integrate physical activity into their daily lives, increasing both mental and physical wellbeing in the process.
What will you learn/hear?
In this webinar, we will show what the effective motivations are to increase physical activity and provide you with resources to use in your own lives or in the work you do with people through social prescribing. We will break down the myths that surround the motivations and barriers to exercise and show that the message at the heart of social prescribing – what matters to you – is key to increasing physical activity.
Who is it for?
Anyone who is interested in embedding physical activity in their life, or in the lives of people they work with and who are looking for practical resources to help.
You might be from a community or voluntary group, a charity with a focus on physical activity, the NHS, or a local authority.
Who will be speaking?
Tracey Lines, National Lead for Physical Activity, National Academy for Social Prescribing
Michelle Roberts, Health Programme Manager, The Richmond Group of Charities
Past Webinars
To view historical webinars from NASP Please visit the Thriving Communities webinars page for more details or see their YouTube channel for all previous webinars.
NASP last webinar was on Babies, Children and Young People’s social prescribing
New Ideas Hub
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about getting veteran-friendly accredited shows your veteran patients that you understand and care.
Read about the Wonder Women project supporting women in the Peterborough area.
Thriving Communities Network
How-to-guides
for using the network.
Articles of Interest
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about the new NASP national office opening, watch videos of James welcoming the opening and Helen cutting the ribbon.
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an article celebrating social prescribing including quotes from James: ‘It gives me an incentive to carry on: The music groups giving a lifeline to people with dementia
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an article in James’s name around COP26: COP-26, climate change, and the value of green social prescribing
- Integrated Care Systems, So What? Find out more click here.
- To watch NASP short film on What is Social Prescribing? click here.
- Read about ‘We Are Undefeatable’ charities produce videos to support people with health conditions to move more.
Open Data Institute (ODI)
The role of data in unlocking the potential of social prescribing. The report is highlighting how Social prescribing can unlock benefits if enablers are in place. One requirement for social prescribing is data infrastructure, such as standards and stewardship to ensure appropriate information is collected and shared. Other enablers must also be in place. Community providers need support to deal with extra demand and social prescribing needs to operate within an adequately funded mental and physical health system.
To read the report Click Here
NAVCA
Role of Local infrastructure in Social Prescribing This report summarises the findings of research NAVCA conducted with approximately 50 of its member organisations, through workshops and interviews. Most NAVCA members are involved in local social prescribing delivery, either through hosting link workers, or through the delivery of their core infrastructure roles of supporting a strong and vibrant VCSE sector, supporting the coordination of the sector, and providing intelligence and insight on the needs and opportunities within the sector. To read the report click here
National Association of Link Workers- (NALW) How Social Prescribing
can help reduce health inequalities
NALW has pulled together a report explaining how Social Prescribing Link
Workers can support reducing health inequalities. The report includes case
examples of how this looks like and is helpful to consider how PA fits into the
picture, plus how support to Social prescribing link workers might look like. To
read the report click
here NB the option to download the report will appear as a pop-up once you are on the website.
The Consensus Statement on physical activity benefits outweigh the risks
The consensus statement on the risks of physical activity for people living with long term conditions determines that the benefits far outweigh the risks and it is safe, even for people living with symptoms of multiple long term conditions to be active. The statement has been developed in partnership with
Read the statement in full Click Here
ASC – Moving Social Work Programme
The Moving Social Work programme aims to create resources and co-produce strategies for the education of the social workers of today and tomorrow. We will make the first resources to educate people who are doing a social work degree and provide post qualified social workers with the tools to promote physical activity to and for Disabled people. Ultimately, the more social workers understand the importance of physical activity, the better placed they are to support a Disabled person to lead a more active and often fulfilling life. To read more Click Here.
Moving health Care programme
Moving Healthcare Professionals is a national programme to support healthcare professionals to increase their knowledge and skills and incorporate physical activity within routine care to support quality improvement and better patient outcomes.
This document provides further background information, and an overview of resources and training opportunities available. To access the document please Click Here
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