View the video of this presentation at http://www.GreenSocialEngineering.org - Janet Pell's Presentation at The Sustainable Green Infrastructure Conference 2014 entitled Wildflowers Work! Janet Pell - Janet has worked for Landlife since 1994, and is a member of the senior team at the heart of the National Wildflower Centre project. She has an MA in Landscape Management (2005) from the University of Sheffield and is a fluent French speaker. Janet has pioneered Landlife’s Nature and Health programme with the Great Outdoors and Get Growing projects, started in 2008 with Lottery and public health funding. In 2010 she received the Michael Varnam award from the UK Public Health Association (UKPHA) in recognition of Great Outdoors outstanding contribution to Health, Humanity and Environment. The National Wildflower Centre is recognised as a ‘ creative hub‘ facilitating a wide range of local and UK partnerships. These are extending to include national and international projects with Nantes in Brittany and Kunming, China. To view the videos from The Sustainable Green Infrastructure Conference please visit http://www.GreenSocialEngineering.org

1. WILDFLOWERS Work
Janet Pell
Development Manager

2. Physical Activity & Mental Health programme
Achieving consistent funding from 2008 in Knowsley
Funded by Big Lottery & Knowsley Public Health

3. National Wildflower Centre
Opened in 2000

6. Sowing native seed
From 8p/m2

7. Natural Inward Investment into Knowsley
• Landlife National Wildflower Centre to date over £12 million,
With over £800K annual turnover
• Great Outdoors to date over £400K
• Partnerships on health and wellbeing worth over £500K
We have big plans for more...

8. • Creating rich wildflower places
• Increasing use & participation
• Promoting behaviour change
• Forging & sustaining partnerships
• Natural enterprise & social value
• Creativity & inspiration

9. Making Greenspaces
Hum Ding

14. Healthy Landscapes....
Using Soil Inversion

15. Pilot site in Knowsley
Top soil stripped 1994
Technical Guides

16. Unesco Award UK MAB 2004

17. First summer after soil inversion
Alvanley, Cheshire, 2004

18. .......Same place in late summer 2014

19. Supporting Silver Studded Blue Butterflies
Prees Heath, Shropshire, with Butterfly Conservation

23. Warwick University Campus

25. Using substrates creatively

28. Our Wildflowers Farm
Healthy enterprise
Trading native seed

29. Current northwest strategic landscape bid for
communities...for nature...for health