sarah jones, shameena villars, williams jones.pdf · 2020. 2. 27. · sarah jones, shameena...
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Sarah Jones, Shameena Villars, Jo Williams
• Established 2015• Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Environmental Services initiative
• ‘For Cleaner, Greener, Safer lives’• Enabling local communities to be able to play an active role in helping to make our borough a great place to live, work, and be active.
Love Solihull
Initiatives – Litter Picking
Initiatives – Friends of Park groups
Initiatives – Corporate projects
Initiatives – Working with schools
Initiatives ‐ Annual Celebration event
We contacted volunteers that we support and asked them…
How has carrying out environmental volunteering impacted you and your
health and wellbeing?
Chris Warne – Founding member of Friends of Solihull Station
Helena Morrissey – Chair, Friends of Shirley Park
Andrew Burrows – Parish Councillor, member of Berkswell Society
Richard & Sandra Gill
Jenny Bright, Damson Wood Litter Pickers
Summary of feedback
• Friendship, community• Social inclusion• Sense of achievement• Feeling of worth• Intellectual stimulation• Physically active, fitter, healthier• Mental wellbeing• FUN!
Any questions?