Sydenham Garden: a community resource for better mental health

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This Centre for Mental Health article describes Sydenham Garden, a community resource in Lewisham, London, whose green space supports mental health through contact with nature, growing and cooking food, and creative activities. About 370 people a year join as 'co-workers' on placements of up to 12 months, and the piece frames the garden as an antidote to loneliness, isolation and exclusion.

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• 370 people

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  Lewisham, London, UK

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  co-workers on placements of up to 12 months

• 15 people

  staff count(sydenham garden)

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  Lewisham, London, UK

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• Mental healthSupports