Festive thanks from Green UPLIFT!

As 2023 draws to a close, our Green UPLIFT calendar concludes for another year, and what a year it’s been!

It’s been a jam packed programme of events, featuring 18 walks, 10 allotment socials, 6 Rewilding the mind sessions, a 3 night residential and a partridge in a pear tree…(ok well maybe not the last bit, although there has been lots of nature along the way!)

In this year’s programme, we’ve been lucky enough to visit some of our favourite green spots across Barnsley including, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Cannon Hall, Wentworth Castle Gardens, RSPB Old Moor and Worsbrough Mill, to name but a few, with lots of creativity along the way. UPLIFTER’s have enjoyed creative writing workshops from Chol Theatre, ukelele playing with Chris McShane, berry basket making with Karina from ‘Whittle and Weave’ and Landart with James Brunt as well as much more!

Each Green UPLIFT is designed to bring a ‘breath of fresh air’ by tapping into our creativity and connection with nature, and we are pleased to report that 95% of participants have seen an improvement in their mental health and wellbeing from their involvement in the programme.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all our fantastic artists, partners, participants and in particular our funders for making the programme the success that it is, we are hugely grateful.

Green UPLIFT will return next year with lots more creative events in the gorgeous green spaces we are lucky enough to have on our doorstep. To whet your appetite, UPLIFTER’s can look forward to more sessions with multi-disciplinary artist, Hannah May Batley, more walks with the walking group, photography on the Transpennine Trail and a future ‘Big Sing’!

We’ll be back with further details in the new year, until then, we wish you a peaceful Christmas. May all your Christmas’s be white and your UPLIFT’S green!