NIDUS-UK’s new Nidotherapy Training and Advice Center in Cotham, Nottinghamshire, opened by Sir John Peace, former Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire and current Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University

A new medical center aimed at improving mental health has opened.

The Nidotherapy Advice and Training Centre, in Cotham, was officially opened by Sir John Peace, former Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire and current Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University.

The center is dedicated to the development of nidotherapy, which is the improvement of mental health by changing the environment in all its forms, as well as promoting a greater partnership with patients.

It incorporates and retains the main building of a Victorian primary school, built in 1890, as the new headquarters of the international charity NIDUS-UK, which, alongside supporting mental health trusts in England, has helped projects around the world, including Sweden, Germany, Montenegro and USA.

One of the first aims of the center will be to work with residents of the surrounding villages of Alverton, Cotham, Hawton, Kilverton, Sibthorpe, Staunton and Thorpe, who will be invited to take part in making environmental changes to improve wellbeing. .

Professor Peter Tyrer, Emeritus Professor of Community Psychiatry at Imperial College London and Visiting Professor at Nottingham Trent University is Chair of NIDUS-UK.

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He said: “Our mental health services are in disarray and the environmental changes offered by nidotherapy can take us further towards better health at low cost and long-term value for individuals and the community.”

Volunteers for the project will be trained at the centre, which will also be a focal point for village meetings.