• Grow combines coaching with nature-based projects to promote wellbeing, reduce isolation and develop employability.
  
  
• It works with vulnerable young people, majority facing mental health difficulties, in Sheffield.
  
  
• These young people have often slipped through the net of statutory services and struggling to access much needed support.
  
  
• It offers 4 interlinked programmes: Walk & Talk, employment induction, gardening work based learning and 1-1 transition coaching.
  
  
• It has a 5 year vision to develop multiple regional hubs that deliver transformational nature-based programmes for young people.
  
  
• It has been part of pilot focused on the mental health benefits of green social prescribing.
  
  
• Chimo’s grant has enabled Grow to employ a Programme and Impact Manager. This role has taken the lead in overseeing the strengthening of their programme work, specifically helping to improve their curriculum, develop their systems and improve impact measurement and management. 

• Grow reports that this role has been a huge help in developing the quality of its provision and given the leadership team the bandwidth to develop thinking around Grow’s future expansion.

Visit: www.growuk.org