The Biophilia Project wants to grow more green spaces to create direct access to nature in places like schools and residential areas. Please get in touch if you feel that a school or a residential area near you needs more green.
Our goal is to empower children, connect people and deliver happiness.
There is no need to spend money to have a beautiful corner where butterflies can land on colourful flowers or another one where children can lead their experiences to grow some vegetables. We can help, get in touch!
What we do:
Reuse and recycle
Provide natural loose parts for school playgrounds
Support wildlife
Support transition to circular economy
Connect people to support local projects
Evidence shows that living in a greener environment can promote and protect good health, and aid in recovery from illness and help with managing poor health. People who have greater exposure to green space have a range of more favourable physiological outcomes. Greener environments are also associated with better mental health and wellbeing outcomes including reduced levels of depression, anxiety, and fatigue, and enhanced quality of life for both children and adults.
Green space can help to bind communities together, reduce loneliness, and mitigate the negative effects of air pollution, excessive noise, heat and flooding. Disadvantaged groups appear to gain a larger health benefit and have reduced socioeconomic-related inequalities in health when living in greener communities, so green space and a greener urban environment can also be used as an important tool in the drive to build a fairer society.
— Public Health England – “Improving access to green space, a new review for 2020”
Our Projects
Dulwich Hamlet Junior School - London, UK
The Biophilia Project is proudly collaborating with the Dulwich Hamlet Junior school since 2021. Explore and Play has been introduced during the school hours in order to offer nature connection as well as child led activity sessions to all the pupils.
Heber Primary School - London, UK
After the 2020/2021 winter lockdown, Heber Primary School has allocated outdoor spaces for all the classes to grow all sort of green making sure that children could spend time outdoor as a way to improve their general wellbeing.
The Biophila Project has donated a seed library to kick off the project.
St Anne’s School, South Gloucestershire
The first week of February 2020 during the Children's Mental Health Week, Explore and Play was launched at St Anne’s school, South Gloucestershire, in collaboration with The Movement Foundation.
Bessemer Grange Primary School - London, UK
Bessemer Grange Primary School has been home to Explore and Play since 2017 and has welcomed some amazing project on its ground such as a Loose Part Play Area and an Edible Play Garden.