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Social prescribing involves linking individuals to community organisations via referrals from primary healthcare providers (your GP, for example). Community organisations can provide non-medical sources of support within the local communities which can help to address psychological, social, emotional, and mental health needs through provision of social activities. One type of social prescription involves exposure to natural environments to improve health and wellbeing, this is known as green soc

19/20/21st May 2023In May we are attempting to do the Three Yorkshire Peaks in Three Days – that’s Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough. Traditionally the challenge is to complete all three peaks in 12 hours… so why is completing the three peaks in three days such a great feat for us? On 19th May we will be accompanied by some of the students from West SILC School in Leeds on our climb up the first of our peaks – Pen-y-Ghent.Pen-y-Ghent stands at 694 m and will be the first peak for many of t

Celebrating one year since the launch of the charity Access the Dales

Starting on Good Friday from the coastal town of Arnside, cyclists in the Dales Divide Bikepacking race begin their gruelling 600km endurance ride across the southern Yorkshire Dales, through York, the Yorkshire Wolds and onto Scarborough returning to Arnside across the North York Moors and the Northern Dales. Now in its 5th year, The Dales Divide was started by Chris Ellison, helped by Alex Pilkington, after Chris successfully rode the 2,700-mile Tour Divide Race in 2018 from Banff (Canada) to