Freaking out about the state of the world?
You're not alone, and you're not overreacting. The kind of exhaustion that comes with caring deeply about a planet that isn't being looked after has a particular weight to it. A weight that doesn't lift with sleep or support you'd usually reach for.
If you work in climate or nature, or simply care deeply about it, you’ll recognise this.
You’ll also know that your best thinking doesn’t happen when you’re running on empty.
Join Nula’s 12 week outdoor pilot in community gardens for Bristol and London-based professionals who are tired about the gap between what they care about, and how they’re allowed to live. Because the original prescription was nature.
Starts September 2026. Places are limited so register your interest to secure your space.
Most workplace wellbeing initiatives don't work.
This does.
In 2024, the University of Oxford published the largest UK study of workplace wellbeing programmes ever done, drawing on 46,336 workers across 233 organisations and around 90 different interventions, including mindfulness, resilience training, stress management, relaxation classes, and wellbeing apps. None of these materially improved employee mental wellbeing.
The single exception, out of all ninety, was giving people the chance to volunteer or do charity work.
The evidence for Green Social Prescribing, however, is undeniable. Between 2021 and 2023, the NHS ran Green Social Prescribing trials across seven sites in England and over 8,500 people took part. There was an 85% engagement rate and a 70% improvement in anxiety (HADS scale).
That's what this pilot offers, a structure based on the evidence identified as most effective.
You'll spend 12 weeks contributing to a working community garden in Bristol, supported by a qualified wellbeing practitioner, alongside 10-16 others who care about the same things you do. That's volunteering, nature, structure and the right kind of company, all in one programme that the evidence actually points to working
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
✓ 12 weeks: 1-2 hours a session, during the working day (same time every week) starting in the last week of June 2026.
✓ Community Gardens in London and Bristol: Sessions are led by a qualified art therapist/wellbeing practitioner.
✓ Time in nature: Sessions are in the garden, combining creative work, time with your hands in soil, and contribution to the garden environment.
✓ Cohort-based: Up to 16 people per cohort - small on purpose.
✓ About you: You don't need to be a gardener or an artist. You just need to be to commit to the programme and be excited about the benefits you might experience when you step away from a screen and spend time in nature, doing good.
✓ Sign-up closes: 1st September 2026
Who is this for?
You work in climate, nature, sustainability, conservation, regenerative finance, ESG, environmental policy, or any flavour of mission-led work where the stakes feel personal. Or you don't, but you've spent the last few years watching the news with a knot in your stomach and quietly wondering what you're supposed to do with
You've probably tried therapy or you might still be in it. You know that therapy alone isn't reaching the part of this that comes from caring about something bigger than yourself. That part doesn't unlock in a fifty-minute session in a room.
This isn’t about being at breaking point, it’s about preventing it. You're functional, getting through, holding the line at work and at home. You're just doing it on increasingly less of yourself.
If you're nodding, this is for you.
Who’s running this and why?
I'm Charlotte. I run Nula, a workplace wellbeing consultancy, and this pilot is a research project close to my heart.
I've spent the last year writing LinkedIn posts about preventative wellbeing and running free walks for people in Bristol. It’s all been lovely but it’s not ‘the thing’.
The thing is harder. It's getting fourteen people who care about the planet, who know they need support to commit to twelve weeks of structured time outdoors, in a working garden, with a qualified practitioner, and then measuring whether it actually changes anything for them.
That's what this is. If you join, you're not only signing up for yourself. You're contributing to the evidence base for nature-based mental health support in UK workplaces, which is something that I am hugely passionate about. Maybe you are too?
A few final details about me: I trained at the Forest Therapy Hub, spent several years on a forest protection site in Kenya, and walked the Camino after my own period of being worn down by my own work. But ultimately, I’m doing this because medicine is seen as the go-to solution and nature is not, and that’s got to change.
Want your employer to cover it?
If cost is a barrier, your employer may be able to fund your place. The pilot fits across several typical budget lines: wellbeing, learning and development, prevention and absence reduction, or social impact and volunteering.
FAQs
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The pilot is designed as a 12-week cohort experience, so consistent attendance matters. Life happens. Missing the occasional session is fine. If you know in advance you can only attend half, this probably isn't for you.
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No. The sessions are designed to be accessible regardless of background.
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The pilot as a whole is a preventative wellbeing programme rather than treatment for clinical mental health conditions. If you're currently in crisis or working through significant mental health challenges, please make sure you have appropriate primary clinical support in place alongside this.
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Please send them the employer page, or get in touch me directly and I'll send a tailored invoicing pack.
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You'll be offered a place in the March cohort instead.
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Comfortable clothes you don't mind getting a bit muddy. Layers for the British autumn. Anything else you need will be provided.
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1st September 2026 or as soon as we hit capacity.
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If you've read this far and the framing makes sense, it probably is. If you want a conversation before signing up, get in touch.
Want in?
If you're paying for yourself, sign up below before 1st September 2026. If you'd rather your employer paid, send them the employer page. And if you'd like to talk it through with me before committing, just email and I'll get back to you.