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Sowing the Seeds is London’s grassroots network championing children’s access to nature. Our vision: Every child can play in nature on their doorstep.

Sowing the Seeds wants all London children to have a ‘balanced diet of everyday nature experiences’. London's children are losing contact with nature. Children’s daily experience of nature is in long term decline. Children’s natural affinity with nature is being broken. Threats to green and open space, rising use of IT and mobiles, pressures on time and parental fears about playing outdoors all combine to help break the link. Two thirds of London is natural and open space. Yet one third of families in London visits natural spaces less than once every two months. The poorest families have the worst access to nature.

29/06/2026

The number of children referred to mental health services in England has risen by 10% in a year to more than one million, or one in every 10, according to the latest annual report, Children and Young People's Mental Health Services: 2024-25, by Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza.

The latest data from 2024-2025 is almost double the number in 2018-19.
Anxiety was listed as the most common reason, accounting for 16% of all referrals, while cases of suspected autism rose by almost 50% in a single year, to more than 96,000.

Demand is soaring beyond capacity, meaning children in England wait years for help with various conditions.

05/06/2026

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