The Green & Healthy Frome partnership, which consists of Frome Town Council, Edventure Frome CIC and Frome Medical Practice, brought together organisations, practitioners and community voices at their Green & Healthy 2025 (G&HF) Conference on 3rd November. The day demonstrated just what is possible when people and planet are held in focus together. Attendees were thanked for “showing up both literally and figuratively” – and for bringing curiosity, honesty and renewed energy to the challenges and opportunities of our time.
Rather than a traditional conference format, the event created a moment of rare alignment. Participants could experience and see the wider pattern of this five-year programme: the lived experience, community practice, evidence gathering, impact, creative expression and future-facing innovation that have evolved across the partnership.
Sharing honest learnings and work across disciplines invited a collective “recalibration.” Speakers and delegates helped each other rediscover the central purpose of the G&HF programme, reflecting back insights that are often hard to see from inside project delivery. Informal conversations – from workshop tables to chats over coffee and sticky apple pudding – sparked new possibilities, partnerships and seeds for what might emerge next.
Organisers expressed their hope that attendees left “ignited, supported, and purposeful,” noting that the work already underway is evidence of real, positive transformation. “We believe that collaboration is the real engine: when health practitioners sit alongside community wellbeing partners; when community volunteers meet policymakers and youth leaders; when storytellers, climate groups, researchers, and residents find themselves in the same circle – possibilities accelerate, problems become shared, and solutions grow more imaginative. This isn’t a prototype of a better future,” organisers said. “We are already creating change – and this is just the beginning.”
Thanks were also extended to the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund, whose sustained moral, practical and financial support has enabled the programme to grow and evolve.
The conference closed with an electrifying performance by Hot Poet Chris Redmond. Delegates can now read his final poem and the improvised piece built from words generated in the room on our website www.greenhealthyfrome.org/read. Hot Poets have also launched Hot Poets Ignite, a national schools programme inspiring climate action through poetry and spoken word.
The organisers emphasised that the conference is a starting point, not an ending. Delegates are invited to join the network and share reflections through the short post-conference feedback form. Participants can also stay connected through:
- The Green & Healthy Frome newsletter
- Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn
- The Future Shed newsletter (contact: sue@edventurefrome.org)
- Direct introductions to project partners via greenhealth@edventurefrome.org
- Access to toolkits, with new and updated versions coming by March 2026
Organisers are also welcoming opportunities to share learning beyond Frome before March 2026 – through visits, exchanges, mentoring, workshops or conferences. Interested groups can contact Becky at greenhealth@edventurefrome.org.
