Category: Ailsa Villegas
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The Nature of Grief
On Sunday the 30th of June 2019, I was honoured to be invited to attend a beautiful service held by SIMBA in remembrance babies lost during pregnancy or soon after birth. The Inverness Botanic Gardens provided a beautiful backdrop to the music and poetry that accompanied a symbolic butterfly release. Many families were in attendance…
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The Launch of Think Health Think Nature
The sun came out for the formal Launch of the Highland Green Health Partnership on the 22nd of April 2019. More than 50 guests came to show support for the initiative ‘Think Health Think Nature’. The Provost, Councillors and senior officials from the partnership met with the community groups and volunteers in an afternoon filled…
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From Urban Parks to Coastal Rock Pools – Green Health
It is half-term and I am just back from a lovely weekend visiting friends in Aberdeen. We took a trip to Hazelhead Park on a beautiful sunny day. Spring was in the air, the birds were singing and the crocus’s were in bloom. The park was buzzing with activity. I took note of how happy everyone…
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Getting Outdoors – Is it for everyone?
Last week I attended on online seminar from Ben Wheeler of Exeter University: “Natural environments and health and wellbeing: Evidence and connections with local/national/international health and environmental policy”. Not surprisingly the evidence was there that greenspace and time spent outdoors is good for us. It did strike me that much of this evidence was taken…
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Green Health – What’s It All About?
At the end of my third week in my new post I thought I would share a little about the project. Highland is one of four areas in Scotland to receive funding to develop a Green Health Partnership. The aim of the partnership is to develop and coordinate approaches to improve both physical and mental…