Walk To Wellbeing - Pennine Way
2021
Rachael was commissioned by NHS England to document and deliver a photographic workshop during a Wellness Walk with service users from The Basement Recovery Project in Halifax. The workshop's focus was to promote the powerful combination of creative and green approaches to social prescribing and its positive effects on mental health and wellbeing.
Rachael worked with the group to co-produce a sequence of images that were later presented to the Creativity and Health Steering Group and the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Integrated Care System (ISC).
The Basement Project is an award winning, community based organisation who offer support and inspiration to those people who are involved with alcohol and / or substance and drug misuse, the opportunity of a new sustained abstinent lifestyle and recovery from addiction. For more information visit https://thebasementproject.org.uk/
© Rachael Munro-Fawcett
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"I'm really enjoying using the camera, its something I've never done before. I don't even take my phone out and take pictures. I don't know what it is that I like about it but I think its the views. I've never been to places like this, I never even knew there were places like this. I just love being up here, it takes you away from normal hectic life and in general it just clears your mind.
Taking photos on the walk is giving me a sense of purpose, well its teamwork isn't it making a story of the walk. Everything I get asked to do I like to put my full attention to it, because I'm a perfectionist. I'll definitely carrying on walking with this group, it now fills a void instead of me using. I mean you've got to be crazy to do things like this, walk for days. But this walk is nothing compared to what I've been through on my journey of recovery."
Charlotte, participant from The Recovery Basement Project.
