CHARITY HIGHLIGHT
Pennine Lancashire Community Farm Through its eight community growing sites, Pennine Lancashire Community Farm promotes social inclusion, community cohesion, sustainability and education. Based in the urban and highly deprived areas across Burnley, Pendle and Hyndburn, the community farm sites offer their diverse communities an opportunity to come together and learn from one another whilst spending time outdoors exercising.
To achieve this the group run projects that target BAMER (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee) communities, out of work individuals, people with mental health issues, young offenders, adults recovering from substance abuse, people who are overweight and adults with disabilities.
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Every pound invested in parks and nature reserves contributes £30 towards health and wellbeing benefits and £23 towards crime reduction and community safety
Research by the Land Trust shows that over 75% of people feel green spaces bring communities closer together
The Burnley riots in June 2001 saw Burnley town in flames as inter-racial violence erupted with attacks on cars, homes and shops causing an estimated £1 million worth of damage
Almost 90% of the people taking part in a study by Mind said that doing physical exercise outdoors in a natural environment was either important or very important in determining how they felt
