Social Prescribing Day, 2025

Today is Social Prescribing Day, an annual celebration of social prescribing, recognising Social Prescribing Link Workers, local community groups and regional and national organisations which support people’s health and wellbeing.

Choirs For Good are proud to talk of the benefits of community singing and encourage anyone, individuals are link workers, to prescirbe community singing to anyone who wants to improve their health and wellbeing.

Many things that affect our health cannot be treated by doctors or medicine alone, like loneliness, isolation or stress due to problems with debt or housing. Social prescribing connects people to non-medical support to address these issues and other unmet needs.

This could involve a Social Prescribing Link Worker or an equivalent role:

- Helping someone who is isolated to join a befriending group, an art class or a community gardening project, based on what matters to them.

- Connecting someone struggling with financial stress to a service that helps with managing debt or claiming benefits.

- Working with someone with high blood pressure to take up a form of exercise that they’re comfortable with.

Social prescribing involves understanding the complexities of people’s lives and the inequalities they may face. It can help change the circumstances that make people unwell, and empower people to manage existing health problems. It can help people to connect and to grow in confidence.

Want to give singing a go? Find your nearest session on our website.

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