MENTAL health charity Mind in Taunton and West Somerset is launching a ‘Go Wild, Stay Well’ project in Vivary Park, Taunton, next Monday between 12noon and 2pm.

It will be attended by mental health professionals and volunteers as well as a couple of media representatives and a grants officer from the national Mind organisation.

Visitors will be able to learn more about the project, sample some tasty organic food and meet a few of the people involved.

The ‘Go Wild, Stay Well’ project is concerned with ecotherapy, a free and natural method of easing mental distress.

Participants will be able to get involved with conservation work on several stunning nature reserves in the Blackdown and Quantock Hills, and will take part in ten-week courses that will hopefully lead to further volunteering opportunities that will help people to feel empowered and to boost their overall well being.

Project manager David Topham, who recently took the first group of participants out to Fyne Court, said: “Go Wild, Stay Well is a wonderful opportunity for participants to experience that healing effect of nature.

“Participants in pilot sessions have been very positive about their experience and are clearly benefiting from this ecotherapy.”

You can find out more calling the office on 01823-334906 or by e-mailing davidt@mindtws.org.uk