Supporting communities with our spaces
Building healthier communities
Spending time outdoors and connecting with others are good for our mental and physical health. Loneliness and isolation are linked to conditions like dementia, and limited access to green spaces can affect blood pressure, cholesterol, and overall wellbeing.
That’s why we’re creating spaces across our healthcare sites where people can meet, move, and enjoy nature. We’re also working with partners to bring care closer to home, using high street and community spaces to make diagnosis and treatment more accessible.
Our commitment to community space
Our buildings, land and services cover over 350,000m² in South East and North West London. We're working with local residents and partners to make the most of these spaces, bringing services into the heart of our communities.
- We use green spaces to support health and wellbeing, through therapeutic gardening and other nature-based projects.
- We're a registered affordable workspace provider, offering space to local groups, charities and small businesses.
- We work with local GPs, gyms and community organisations to make care like physiotherapy more convenient by delivering it in familiar, accessible places.
Space to grow
Our award-winning garden project at the amputee rehabilitation unit in Lambeth supports patients recovering from amputation to be physically and mentally active.
Patients are encouraged to take part in a range of gardening activities including sowing plants and herbs, preparing and reseeding the soil, watering and harvesting produce. These activities help people with reaching, standing and balance so they are able to adapt to environments outside of the unit.
Tatiana said: "The garden at the unit is a lifeline. Spending so long in a clinical environment takes its toll. Eventually, once my scars had healed I was able to learn how to hold and use garden tools without having hands."