Children and parents connected with nature and helped habitats thrive this summer as part of our Birds on the Edge project. Families from Scarborough took part in conservation, sensory crafts and creative play, supporting their wellbeing and nature and creating lasting memories.

Our Stepping Stones to Nature programme supports children to grow up well. Through nature-based activities we build confidence and skills, support health and wellbeing, development and learning, and nurture connection with nature from the school field to the National Park. 🌿

We are on the BBC! Through Stepping Stones to Nature we are helping children to grow up well. 🌿 We engage children through nature-based, sensory and curriculum linked activities that support their health, development and learning, build confidence and skills, and nurture a love of nature.

Connecting with nature is good for the heart, mind and soul. 🌿 Great day in the National Park hosting our monthly Trust Treks- a walk and talk group we run to connect men with nature and each other to support physical and mental health and tackle isolation. Foraging, plant and bird ID and more.

This is Michael’s story of his engagement with our men’s health and nature connection programme, Trust Treks. Michael speaks about mental health and social isolation and how in Trust Treks and nature he found connection, companionship and purpose. #MensHealthWeek 🔗 vimeo.com/1084239051/0...

🌟 90% of children felt more confident in themselves and nature after taking part in Stepping Stones to Nature. Through a programme of nature-based, sensory and curriculum-enriching activities we are supporting kids from Teesside to grow up well. 👉 www.northyorkmoorstrust.uk/s/Stepping-S...

Our Director in @yorkshirepost.co.uk highlighting how our Stepping Stones to Nature programme shows sustained nature-based interventions in schools can help tackle worsening child outcomes - from mental health to resilience. Nature is key to children growing up well and thriving. 🌿

NEW: Stepping Stones to Nature Report 🌿 First report from our programme supporting children to grow up well with nature - from health to development. We share findings and recommendations from the pilot delivered in Teesside schools in 2024. Read more: www.northyorkmoorstrust.uk/s/Stepping-S...

7 in 10 children reported better health and wellbeing after taking part in our Stepping Stones to Nature pilot. Through a sensory, nature-based, curriculum-enriching programme we’re supporting children on Teesside to grow up well with nature. Creating time for play, interaction & investigation. 🔎🐞

Perfect English woodland in all its spring splendour. Cool shady banks full with pungent wild garlic, colourful forget-me-nots and bluebells. Horse chestnut candles standing proud. Song Thrush and Chiffchaff singing loud. Guisborough Forest, North York Moors National Park.

Nature. Companionship. Purpose. Good humour. Great conversation. 🌿 Boosting physical and mental health, tackling inactivity and reducing loneliness among men from Teesside. Our monthly nature connection programme, Trust Treks, is back. We’re working with Teesside @mindcharity.bsky.social in 2025.

The first Turtle Doves have started arriving back, if you see/hear one in North Yorkshire please let me know, we track all sightings as part of the Birds on the Edge project www.northdove.co.uk/sightings-su... @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social @nymnptrust.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Nature and National Parks have a role in improving health and helping children thrive. 🌿 Our Director discusses the impact of our projects and the merits of a Natural Health Service and nature-based learning on #SoWhoCaresAnyway podcast. Listen here: tinyurl.com/Nature-and-h...

Inspiring feedback from our Stepping Stones to Nature project 💚 We’re supporting children on Teesside to interact, investigate, create, play, and learn in nature - enriching learning and supporting wellbeing and development. Report due soon. Read more: www.northyorkmoorstrust.uk/updates/proj...

In 2024 we launched the first Nature Prescription for North Yorkshire. Harnessing nature to boost people’s health. Since then we have trained GPs and social prescribers across 30+ surgeries and 7 primary care networks and distributed over 1,700 prescription calendars. #SocialPrescribingDay

Habitat restored💧 ✅ We restored the historic dew pond on Appleton-le-Moors Common in the National Park through our Birds on the Edge project. Working with the community we are creating a haven for wildlife - including beaches for Turtle Dove. Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund and S106.

This week we established a new orchard in the Low Horcum, North York Moors National Park with our partner Rounton Coffee. Planting fruit varieties local to the Moors. 🍏🌳 In time it’ll provide habitat for wildlife and pollinators, store carbon and improve soil health. A win for nature and heritage.

Great to hear UK Government has extended the Farming in Protected Landscapes scheme until 2026. We previously received funding for our Birds on the Edge project, working with farmers to create rich, diverse habitat to support threatened and at risk species like the Turtle Dove. A win for nature!

By planting native trees and restoring woodland and key habitat we are raising funds to connect the next generation with nature and the National Park whilst providing the public with an opportunity to sustainably commentate loved ones. 🌳💚 More on our Planting a Lasting Legacy initiative →

Snowdrops! Spring is coming. 🤍 Now is a good time get out into the National Park or local green spaces. Noticing nature is a great way to boost your mental health, from relieving stress to promoting calm.

For #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, we’re highlighting Stepping Stones to Nature - our project helping children grow up well with nature. After taking part 79% said it improved wellbeing and 73% felt calmer. Nature should play a greater role in promoting good mental health. 🌿

Since April our Stepping Stones to Nature project has supported the health and development of children in Redcar and Cleveland through nature-based learning, play and investigation. Today they visited the National Park to utilise their green skills. Report coming soon.

Treemendous day planting trees in Levisham in the North York Moors National Park. 🌳 Our Planting a Lasting Legacy scheme is supporting the environment, raising funds to connect the next generation with nature and the NP and providing an opportunity to commemorate loved ones sustainably. 💚

Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄‍🟫 Flammulina velutipes, or velvet shank, spotted glimmering like gems in a woodland in the North York Moors. They thrive in winter, growing on the deadwood of ash, beech and oak. Slowing down and connecting with nature is proven to support our mental health and wellbeing.

We helped deliver the first Nature Prescription for North Yorkshire. A cost-effective and proven approach to improving health, prescribed locally since summer 2024. We worked in partnership with @rspb.bsky.social, North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales National Parks, and local health professionals.

Stepping Stones to Nature 🌿 Our latest project supporting children on Teesside to grow up well by promoting good health and development through a programme of sensory and educational nature-based activities and creative play. We will share more about the project and what we have found soon.

Skateboards and wildlife 🛹🌿 Supporting young people from Scarborough Pupil Referral Service to thrive through creation and nature Part of our Birds on the Edge project. Produced by ARCADE Credit: Matthew Cooper Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt6S...

This is the video you need to see today! In 2024, our Birds on the Edge project connected young people from Scarborough with nature, supporting their wellbeing and learning through conservation, art and play. Produced by ARCADE. Credit: Matthew Cooper. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSYL...

We can’t wait to connect many more people with nature and the North York Moors National Park in 2025 to support health, wellbeing and development. 🌿💚

Happy New Year from the beautiful North York Moors National Park 😍 No better way to spend the post- festivity days than connecting nature and our amazing green and blue spaces. Today’s view from the Wainstones on the Cleveland Way across to Urra and Bilsdale.

Growing up well with nature! ⛺️🌿 Wholesome photographs from our latest project, Stepping Stones to Nature. Connecting children on Teesside with nature through sensory, nature-based and curriculum-enriching activities to support their health, wellbeing and development.

Announcing our latest project, Stepping Stones to Nature. A project to support children to grow up well with nature, in nature. Report coming early 2025. Red more: www.northyorkmoorstrust.uk/updates/proj...

This year students from Scarborough Pupil Referral Service engage with our Birds on the Edge project. They learnt about how we support at-risk bird species and connected with the nature through art and conservation — activities which support their wellbeing and development. Credit: Matthew Cooper

75 years ago the creation of National Parks was a radical health act, a people’s charter to provide access to green space and fresh air. Read our Director’s recent article setting out why we must ensure National Parks live up to that vision and play a bigger role in improving health. 💚

Great chat with the BBC today on the health benefits of connecting with nature and our belief that it is key to living well. 💚 Also got to discuss some findings from our project, Trust Treks, which connected men from Andy’s Man Clubs on Teesside with nature to support their mental health.

November’s Trust Treks took us to Saltburn for a mindful walk, talk and litter pick with guys from Andy’s Man Club Teesside. Enjoying calming blue space which is proven to reduce stress and improve focus, whilst doing our bit for nature. 🌊👌🏻 Trust Treks → www.northyorkmoorstrust.uk/ourprojects/...

Director of the North York Moors Trust, James Metcalfe, in the Yorkshire Post. ‘A connection with nature is key to growing up well. Providing children with opportunities to create, investigate, and play in nature is a proactive and cost-effective way to tackle worsening health and life outcomes’.

This year we delivered the first Nature Prescription for North Yorkshire. With the North York Moors NP and @rspb.bsky.social, we co-designed a nature prescription with health professionals. This cost-effective and proven approach to improving health is being prescribed to patients. Read more →

We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Rounton Coffee. We have some cool nature restoration work planned. And their support will help us continue to connect people with nature and the National Park to improve health outcomes. More soon.

Hello to our lovely new followers. We are an independent charity working to lift the health of people and nature in the North York Moors National Park and surrounding communities, like Scarborough and Teesside. We’ll be sharing plenty from our projects. Find out more: www.northyorkmoorstrust.uk

This #TrusteeWeek we pay tribute to our brilliant trustees. 💚 Their support and experience is invaluable to the growth of the Trust and delivering our mission to lift the health of people and nature in the North York Moors National Park and surrounding communities.

Golden autumnal evenings in the North York Moors National Park this week. 🧡🍂🔥🎃

For #WorldMigratoryBirdDay here’s a few ponds we have created or lovingly restored in the North York Moors National Park and surrounding areas through our Birds on the Edge project. These ponds with their shallow beaches will go on to support critically endangered Turtle Dove. 💧🪶🌿

On #WorldMentalHealthDay we are pleased to publish a short report and case study from our project, Trust Treks. We share real-life insight and learning on how a connection with nature has helped men from Teesside with their mental health. 🌿 Read here → www.northyorkmoorstrust.uk/updates/natu...

Hi folks, our Director is in today’s Yorkshire Post. He discusses the role nature should play in health and education. Connecting with nature is key to preventing poorer health and life outcomes and central to children growing up well.

A Beacon of Brightness - top read from Birds on the Edge project officer, Tim Jones The Yellowhammer is one of four at risk bird species the Birds on the Edge project supports by creating and restoring key habitat in the North York Moors NP. Read more → leica-nature-blog.com/birds-on-the...

𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘆. Volunteers and trustees created two new ponds at Sutton Bank. Through our Birds on the Edge project we are creating and restoring key habitat to support critically endangered Turtle Dove and other species to thrive in and around the National Park. 🕊️💧

Morning light from a quiet wood in the North York Moors National Park. 🌲

Director of the North York Moors Trust, James Metcalfe, in the Guardian on IPPR’s latest health report: Connecting with nature, from National Parks to back yards, has a crucial role in preventing poorer physical and mental health outcomes. Let’s better integrate it into health and education. 🌿

We are proud to have helped deliver the first Nature Prescription for North Yorkshire. With worsening health outcomes, connecting people with nature is a cost effect and proactive approach to improving mental and physical health and prevention. It is prescribed by health professionals. 🏥➡️🌿