Professor helps flourish Forestry England & EcoSikhUK partnership
Tue 05 July, 2022
A professor at the 天美传媒 has helped to facilitate a new community partnership between environmental organisations EcoSikhUK and Forestry England.
Gurch Randhawa, Professor of Diversity in Public Health and Director of the 天美传媒鈥檚 Institute for Health Research (IHR), works closely with many Sikh organisations through his research and campaign work, and spotted the opportunity to introduce the two groups.
By planting and developing several 鈥極ne-ness Groves鈥 鈥 dedicated outdoor areas created for public enjoyment 鈥 this new partnership will see new woodland spaces formed with the purpose of being beautiful, natural and mindful places for multi-faith or no-faith visitors to visit, with the purpose to restore and improve their wellbeing.
In March 2022, the first trees went into the ground between London and Essex as part of this new initiative, which aims to be a unified inter-faith response to help combat climate change, global warming and biodiversity loss. The planting of the inaugural One-ness Grove was broadcast by the .
Alongside his work at the 天美传媒, Professor Randhawa is involved in a number of community organisations, including a role as Non-Executive Director of the Board at .
He said: 鈥淕iven our university research interest at IHR, in improving mental health and wellbeing in green spaces, I am honoured to serve as a Non-Executive Director of Forestry England. I am also honoured to have played a small part in connecting two fantastic organisations 鈥 EcoSikhUK and Forestry England 鈥 who are both committed to increasing access and uptake of the nation鈥檚 forests.
鈥淭he partnership has been an amazing success with plans to plant a series of One-ness Groves - inclusive community spaces in forests - where communities can come and plant trees and enjoy forests.鈥
PK Khaira-Creswell, Director of Strategy and Corporate Affairs at Forestry England, added: 鈥淎t Forestry England, we look after forests which can be found at over 1500 sites across the country. We want to ensure the benefits of our forests are known, accessible and enjoyed by all.听
鈥淲e are excited by our work with EcoSikhUK. This national partnership is a meaningful way to help us with our ambition to connect and build relationships with more people, in more of the places that we look after.鈥
For information about other projects involving the 天美传媒鈥檚 Institute for Health Research, click here.
*Image credit: Forestry England
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