To mark the occasion, we're sharing an exciting update for the Social Prescribing Youth Network and spotlighting our research project "Wellbeing While Waiting".
19 March 2025
Happy Social Prescribing Day! We’re delighted to be celebrating this important day for the community, sharing and uplifting the people and organisations who make social prescribing happen for young people.
This year, we’re celebrating by sharing an exciting update for the Social Prescribing Youth Network and spotlighting our “Wellbeing While Waiting” research.
In December we announced that our team at the Social Biobehavioural Research Group will be the new hosts of Social Prescribing Youth Network (SPYN). Thank you to everyone who has expressed interest and shared our excitement since then.
We’re delighted to say that we have now secured funding for the network, enabling us to grow the movement and advance our vision for youth social prescribing. Below is a flavour of what you can expect in the next year:
We’re grateful to our advisory board and partners, the National Academy for Social Prescribing and the Southbank Centre, for helping us make this happen!
Watch this space, we will announce the details of our first event shortly. In the meantime, please help us by recommending SPYN to people in your network – membership is free and open to all! More details are available on SPYN’s webpage.
This Social Prescribing Day, we’re also rounding up learning from one of our team’s largest research studies on youth social prescribing to date, Wellbeing While Waiting.
Since 2022 we have been exploring how social prescribing can help young people waiting for NHS mental health support. Our aim is to develop and test a scalable new social prescribing pathway for young people on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) waiting lists.
Watch our new video below to learn more about this research and hear about the impact we’ve had so far from young people and their parents! You can also browse all the related resources here. We look forward to sharing more as we wrap up this project later in 2025…
Looking for more #SocialPrescribingDay content?
Check out the lively hashtag on social media. We’ve posted across our channels – you can find us on LinkedIn, Bluesky and X (formerly Twitter).
You can also browse our archive of content from last year’s celebrations, including an overview of all our social prescribing research and interview with Joely Wright who has worked as a Social Prescriber in our team.
