Welcome to Episode 3 of the SPRING Social Prescribing podcast.

On today's episode we visit LORAG, (Lower Ormeau Residents Action Group), in Belfast for a chat with their healthy living centre manager, Natasha Brennan. Natasha discusses how their SPRING Social Prescribing programmes fit in with LORAG's mission to create healthy lifestyles for the people of south and east Belfast.

We also get to hear from their SPRING Social Prescribing coordinator, Paul McCrudden, and some of his SPRING Social Prescribing participants.

Nicola Lindsay who is a Community Access Worker for the Belfast Health Trust also joins the podcast to discuss how working closely with the SPRING team at LORAG has made a difference to people's lives.

For more information on the brilliant work LORAG do, visit their website at: https://lorag.org/

For more info on Spring Social Prescribing, visit us at www.springsp.org or on twitter @SPRINGSocialPre

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Welcome to Episode 2 of the SPRING Social Prescribing podcast. On today's episode we have a chat with SPRING Project Manager, Clare Cook and John Cassidy, CHAIR of the Scottish Communities for Health & Well-being.

Clare & John take us through their thoughts on SPRING Social Prescribing in the Scotland; the need for a holistic model in health provision; 'failure demand'; the challenges around funding; and what they do to look after their own health & well-being.

for more info on Spring Social Prescribing, visit us at www.springsp.org or on twitter @SPRINGSocialPre

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Welcome to Spring Social Prescribing. On this opening episode of the podcast we sit down for a chat with director of the Bogside & Brandywell Health forum in Derry, N.Ireland, Aileen McGuinness, and SPRING regional manager for NI, Emer McDaid.

We discuss how the Health Forum got involved with social prescribing, and how SPRING currently operates with its partners across Northern Ireland. Aileen & Emer discuss how SPRING employ a community model of social prescribing also share their hopes for social prescribing in the future.

for more info on Spring Social Prescribing, visit us at www.springsp.org or on twitter @SPRINGSocialPre

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Welcome to Spring Social Prescribing, a new podcast brought to you by the team at Spring Social Prescribing. Through the course of a season, we will introduce listeners to the Social Prescribing work we do throughout Northern Ireland & Scotland and generally, take time to discuss all things social prescribing!

for more info on Spring Social Prescribing, visit us at www.springsp.org

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