station masters centre and community garden not for profit
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Station Masters Centre and Community Wildlife Garden: a social
innovation
Dr Duika Burges Watson, Centre for Public Policy and Health, Durham University
Social innovation • “A novel solution to a social problem that is more effective,
efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals” (Phills et al, 2008)
• “Innovative forms of social enterprise—that is, businesses that exist to fulfil a social (including environmental) objective and typically reinvest a substantial portion of their profit or surplus in the fulfilment of that purpose” (Mason et al, 2015).
Phills, J.A., Deiglmeier, K. and Miller, D.T., 2008. Rediscovering social
innovation. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 6(4), pp.34-43.
Mason, C., Barraket, J., Friel, S., O'Rourke, K. and Stenta, C.P., 2015. Social
innovation for the promotion of health equity. Health promotion international, 30(suppl
2), pp.ii116-ii125.
Innovative model: ”mobilization of latent or unrealised value through new combinations of (social, cultural and material) resources” (Mason et al, 2015)
Purpose/functions:
• Social, environmental, health equity
May 2013
• First volunteers: team V
Our aims and objectives
a) To promote and enhance the use of green space
b) To protect and promote the biodiversity and landscape value (and organic gardening for food)
c) To advance community cohesion
Committee Members: Duika Burges Watson (chair) Mark Frampton (treasurer) Anna Richardson
(secretary) Dave Turnbull, Emma Norris, Dave Robinson, Sue Pethybridge, Nicki Wynne, Paul
Yarde, David Summers, Lyndsay Yarde
February 2016
• Gardening – Tree Grafting workshops – Wassailing – Composting workshops – Seed Swaps – Willow-weaving workshops – Volunteering days – Pond workshop – Bird, bat identification – Bee world (Rockcliffe first school/FOE)
• Food – Community barbecues – Potato/apple celebrations – Community meal and cook-in – Flavour masterclass (WB High School) – Grazing/foraging events – Hedgerow medicine – Swap-a-lot and harvest festival
• Entertainment/art/events – Music festival (mini woodstocks!) – Annual Halloween event – Part of WB Community Carnival
–Community choir, local musicians
– ‘Year of art’ in the garden (2015) –Poetry in the Garden –Story tellers festival –Craft events
• Social inclusion – Youth offenders gardening programme – Bangladeshi community ‘Eid Festival’ – New Prospects barbecues/events – ‘Host’ for environmental groups – ‘Forest school’ – Cubs and brownies – Cancer fundraiser
– Cancer memorial space and labyrinth (in progress)
Trevor Hancock, M.B., 2015. Population health promotion 2.0: An eco-social approach to public
health in the Anthropocene. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 106(4), p.E252.
The Yoga Station Since Sept 2013
Tai chi, hatha yoga, iyengar yoga, ashtanga yoga, forrest yoga, ‘golden’ yoga, St Paul’s yoga group, restorative yoga, pregnancy yoga, pilates, dance, children’s yoga, chi running, mums and babies play, parkour, thai yoga massage & teacher training, community choir, meditation, mindfulness, thai massage, perfume workshops, tree grafting, garden design, art exhibits, Whitley Bay film festival, Cloud Nine theatre group, food workshops
I am involved in all this AND I’m a full time academic? HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
Community
Translational research in public health
a ‘hotbed’ of practice into research and research into practice; inspiring research grants, publications, new theoretical explanations; inspiring innovation
• Replenishing spaces: exploring opportunities and developing a knowledge
base for enhanced food forging. Resilience of the UK food system in a global context, BBSRC £980k (under review) Burges Watson DL (PI), Roe M (PI), Townshend T, Haighton K
• Burges Watson, DL; Lewis S; Bryant, V; Patterson, J; Kelly, C; Edwards-Stuart, R; Deary, V. Altered eating: a new framework for health research and practice, BMJ (under review)
• Burges Watson DL, Moore HJ. Community gardening and obesity. Perspectives in public health 2011; 131(4): 163
Translational research and social enterprise and
innovation – mutual benefit for health and wellbeing
The Station Masters Community Wildlife Garden
The Yoga Station
www.thestationmastersgarden.org
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