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Organisation: Sing for Your Life Project: Silver Song Club Resource and Training Project Area of benefit: Across the South East Main strand: Mental health Brief project description Music sessions led by trained facilitator and supported by volunteers with older people (focus on BME and deprived areas) at day care centres and community venues. |
Organisation: Creativity4health Project: South East Region Healthy Care Partnership Area of benefit: Across the South East Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description 18 Healthy Care Partnerships to develop arts activities involving children in care, care leavers, foster carers over the three years. Involve training needs anaylsis, toolkit and celebratory event |
Organisation: Fresh Ideas Network Project: Common Cause Co-operative Ltd Area of benefit: Across the South East Main strand: Healthy Eating Brief project description Community network of 400 local projects involving healthy eating, training and networking events and development of resources, set up five new social enterprises. |
Organisation: Mindful Employer South East Project: The Sainsbury Mental Health Trust Area of benefit: Across the South East Main strand: Mental Health Brief project description Web-based and network with seminars aimed at employers who wish to improve their ability to employ and manage people with mental health issues. |
Organisation: Hampshire Dance Project: VitaliSE Area of benefit: Across the SE Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description Portfolio of dance projects targeting young people with physical and learning disabilities, BME. Includes dance summer schools and regional tour. |
Organisation: Age Concern Project: Go Well Area of benefit: Across the South East Main strand: Physical Activity, Mental Health and Healthy eating Brief project description Pilot projects in Brighton, Hastings and Isle of Wight supporting older people in sport and exercise, healthy eating and promoting well being. |
Organisation: Forestry Commission Project: Sense and Motion Area of benefit: Hampshire (idea to roll out to other parts of the region) Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description Three green exercise programmes within three woodland settings in Hampshire: Sensory movement in relaxation zone for older people, disabled people (physical and mental), faith; Woodland Gym for children and obstacle course; Forest Tree Running for disaffected youth and teenagers. |
Organisation: Slough Volunteer Bureau Project: Supported volunteering toolkit Area of benefit: Across the South East Main strand: N/A Capacity Building Brief project description Help projects within the portfolio to develop understanding of supported volunteering practices and current issues. Establish support network via e-communication and workshop. |
Organisation: Regional Public Health Group Project: Building Blocks Project Area of benefit: Across the South East Main strand: N/A Capacity Building Brief project description Coordination, integrating and supporting all projects within portfolio. Help in set up and exit strategies, help with evaluation toolkit and training of peer researchers, organise events and communication bulletins etc. |
| Kent and Medway |
Organisation: East Kent Health Promotion Service Project: All sorts Area of benefit: Buckland, Castle, St Radigunds, Kent Main strand: Mental Health Brief project description Improve well being of young men who are gay, bisexual or unsure of their sexuality through drop in sessions, website |
Organisation: Centre for Health Service Studies and Eastern Coastal Kent PCT Project: Am I bovvered? Area of benefit: Cliffville West, Dane Valley, Margate Central, Kent Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description Participatory action research project targeting girls 11-15 in deprived wards to empower them to engage with physical activity and decisions about their well being. |
Organisation: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Leisure Services Project: Detached Play Workers Area of benefit: Sherwood, St James, Broadwater wards, Tunbridge Wells Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description 3 part-time play workers will support young people 5 to 16 in the specified wards to engage with sports and arts activities with informal education about life style choices e.g. healthy eating and smoking cessation |
Organisation: Stour Valley Arts Project: For you too Area of benefit: Kings Wood Kent Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description Aiming at young people especially young people at risk, young people from hospital school, young people from refugee background to be active in the extensive woodlands through arts activities. 24 artists will be trained to work with these young people. |
Organisation: East Kent Health Promotion Service Project: Kids Club Area of benefit: Canterbury and Ashford, Kent Main strands: Mental health, physical activity and healthy eating Brief project description Family based behaviour medication programmes for overweight children 5 -13., offering physical activity activities and working with parents on healthy eating, emotional health and physical activity. |
Organisation: East Kent Health Promotion Service Project: My Body, My Life Area of benefit: Thanet, Folkestone Main strands: Mental health, physical activity and healthy eating Brief project description Promotion of healthy lifestyles to mental health service users through buddying scheme, community training courses covering a range of topics and the three strands, taster sessions with local sports centres, allotments and education centres. |
Organisation: West Kent PCT Project: Naturally Active Area of benefit: North West Kent Main strands: Mental health, physical activity Brief project description Development of a range of activities in urban green areas and countryside of NW Kent for BME groups, young people at risk of obesity, people with mild mental health issues and people with sedentary lifestyles. |
Organisation: West Kent PCT Project: Postural Stability Area of benefit: Parkwood, Shepway, Maidstone, Kent Main strands: Physical activity Brief project description Programme of weekly Prevention Adapted Exercise sessions for older people at high risk of falls at four locations. |
Organisation: Seven Oaks and Area Mental Health Awareness Group Project: Samhag Area of benefit: Swanley St Mary’s, Edenbridge, Kent Main strands: Mental health Brief project description Workshops for employers and communities led by people with mental health issues on challenging stigma on Mental Health. |
Organisation: Sheppey Healthy Centre Project: Sheppey Community Involvement Project Area of benefit: Sheerness, Sheppey, Leysdown and Warden, Murston, Kent Main strands: Mental health, physical activity and healthy eating Brief project description A programme of arts, fitness and education activities using a community development approach and courses on well being, physical activity and healthy eating. |
Organisation: Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council Project: Tonbridge and Malling HLI Area of benefit: East Malling, Trench, Snodland Main strands: Physical activity and healthy eating Brief project description Expansion of Lifestyles referral scheme to include young people, support for physical activity , nutrition advice, weight management. Outreach work with young single parents, dependents resident in the above wards. |
Organisation: Whole School Meals Ltd Project: Whole School Meals Area of benefit: Buckland, Castle, St Radigunds, Towee Hamlets, Town and Pier, Folkestone, Kent Main strand: Healthy eating Brief project description A range of activities including secondary pupils creating a small business withn school from market research to production to sales; visits to local food producers, arts projects on themes of food, health, lifestyles etc. and cookery classes |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
Organisation: 3D Crime Concern Project: Vice to health Area of benefit: Southampton Main strand: Mental health and Physical activity Brief project description A coordinator and volunteers will organise physical activities such as swimming, gyms, walks and visits to farms for women in the street sex industry with substance misuse and/or mental health issues. Activities can be 1:1 or group. Signposting to other services such as alcohol rehabilitation and counselling will be offered. |
Organisation: Hampshire Partnership Trust Project: Health and Well Being for people with Mental Health Area of benefit: New Forest, Southampton, East Hants, Fareham, Gosport, North and Mid Hants Main strand: Healthy eating, Mental health, Physical Activity Brief project description A health and wellbeing programme for people with Mental Health issues with support workers organising at least 3 Cook and Eat programmes, health walks and support to mainstream community based activities. Skills will be cascaded in running such activities to other staff, service users and voluntary groups. The project aims to train community based staff who have little experience of working with service users. |
Organisation: Active Wight Project: Isle of Wight Council Area of benefit: Isle of Wight Main strand: Healthy eating physical activity, mental health Brief project description A range of projects targetting people with Mental Health issues and disadvantaged families will be offered. LIVE programme – based at Riverside centre, Newport; ART at the heart – focus on 3 deprived wards of Pan, Oakfield and Freshwater; Return to Sport – across the island and Isle of Wight Community Chef Programme. |
Organisation: Hampshire PCT Project: Cook and Eat Hampshire Area of benefit: Hampshire wide Main strand: Healthy eating Brief project description A 6 week after school programme offering parents/carers and children development of cooking skills And improving awareness of a balanced diet. The programme will run in 40 targeted schools. |
Organisation: Sport Hampshire and IOW Project: Sport & Physical Activity Alliance Area of benefit: Havant, Fareham & Gosport, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Rushmoor & Hart, Test Valley, Winchester, New Forest, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Basingstoke Brief project description A range of initiatives such as physical activity and nutrition activities targeting childhood obesity; outreach physical activity coordinator for deprived wards; programme of activities for over 65 in residential care homes and isolated individuals; sports and activity equipment for youth clubs in deprived wards, crèche facilities to enable access to single parents; diversionary activities for youth offenders and siblings and transport for rural communities. |
Organisation: Warren Centre Project: Family Healthy Eating and Food Preparation Area of benefit: Southampton Main strand: Healthy eating Brief project description Weekly healthy eating and food preparation sessions at the Warren centre for parents and children from Shirley Warren School, nursery and Warren Centre, children’s centre, Single parents and families on low income. Sessions included parent and children family cooking, Lunchtime cookery Club for adults, After School Cookery club for children and Around the World (Cooking from different cultures). |
Organisation: Bridgemary Community Sports College Project: Sunny Side Up Area of benefit: Gosport Main strand: Healthy eating, Mental Health Brief project description A healthy start morning club (Monday to Friday) with healthy meal and development of healthy eating habits and offering social and emotional support for vulnerable and at risk young people. |
Organisation: Age Concern Hampshire Project: Older People ambassador Area of benefit: Totton, Eastleigh, Hartley Wintney, Grateley, Hampshire Main strand: Mental health Brief project description The project aims to reduce isolation amongst older people and promote their well being by the development of Older People’s Ambassadors. These volunteers will identify isolated older people and encourage engagement with local activities including healthy eating and physical activity. |
Organisation: Havant Women’s Aid Project: Outreach and Resettlement Project Area of benefit: Leigh Park, Warren Park Main strand: Mental health Brief project description An outreach and resettlement service for women and children experiencing domestic violence in Havant area. Activities include group work, 1-2-1 work and counselling services, play therapy for children 0-5 years old. |
Organisation: The Shaw Trust Project: Healthy Living Experience Area of benefit: Leigh Park, Havant Main strand: Healthy eating Brief project description The project covers food technology/life skills for local secondary school students. Young people spend a day running the Shaw Trust café. Sessions cover customer care, food preparation, cost and roles. |
Organisation: Portsmouth Foyer Project: Get real about health Area of benefit: Portsmouth Main strand: Mental health and physical activity Brief project description The project with young people in the foyer, offering advice, counselling, information and support. Various activities will be organised e.g. cookery, physical activity, anger management etc. |
Organisation: Portsmouth City Council Project: Obesity Awareness Area of benefit: Heart of Portsmouth Main strand: Healthy eating Brief project description The project aims to promote healthier eating for children, parents and wider community particularly BME and disadvantaged families through healthy eating champion, intergenerational DVD promoting healthy eating and exercise within BME communities, healthy eating arts based project in schools, family based healthy eating workshops targeting dads, toddler lunch café and Snack attack for weaning practices. |
| Thames Valley |
Organisation: Restore Project: Activate Area of benefit: Oxfordshire Main strand: Mental health, Physical Activity Brief project description The project will support people with mental health problems to take part in sport and physical activities. It will also work with mainstream facilities to make them more accessible and to challenge stigma and discrimination by offering training events and consultancy to staff at these venues. |
Organisation: Root and Branch and Bridwell Organic Gardens Project: Healthy Eating Programme Area of benefit: Oxfordshire Main strand: Mental health and Healthy Eating Brief project description The project will helping mental health users to grow their own vegetables in community settings, to cook nutritious healthy food from locally grown organic produce or own grown sources, to learn about healthy eating and use diet plans and symptoms journal. |
Organisation: Oxford Healthy Living Partnership Project: Community Food workers Area of benefit: Oxford Main strand: Healthy eating Brief project description The project works with individuals and families in deprived communities, BME, homeless and mental health users. Community groups will be supported to run their own healthy eating sessions. The new Community Food workers will conduct outreach with local groups and jointly identify activities with them which could be healthy lunchbox, cooking skills for single men, farm visits, games and quizzes. |
Organisation: The Sunshine Centre Project: Family Cookery Area of benefit: Banbury Main strand: Healthy eating Brief project description The project will provide family cookery sessions promoting healthy eating and nutrition, cooking skills and managing a budget to disadvantaged families at family centres across Banbury. |
Organisation: West Berkshire Council & Berkshire West PCT Project: Particip8 Area of benefit: West Berkshire Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description This joint project will involve the purchase of specially designed gym/fitness equipment for the use of young people aged 8 -16. This is linked with the existing exercise on referral scheme for children. It also involves purchase of ‘Green’ physical activity packs – that contain outdoor games to be used in green spaces for loan on a nominal fee. |
Organisation: Berkshire PCT Project: Health activist project for Gypsies and Travellers Area of benefit: West Berkshire (Paces Hill and Four Corners Housing and not permanent sites) Main strand: Healthy eating, Physical Activity, Mental Health Brief project description The project will train a number of health activists in the travelling communities who will identify their own specific health needs and provide feedback to inform strategic planning. These volunteers will offer support, advice and information in their own communities, work with health care professionals to improve access to services. |
Organisation: Wokingham District Council Project: Health mentors for older people Area of benefit: Hawdedon/Lower Earley, Swallowfield inWokingham Main strand: Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Brief project description The project will train 15 older people as mentors to provide informed, community focused, peer support for older people targeting over 70. Volunteer mentors will deliver programmes encouraging physical activity and helping to maintain healthy lifestyles. The second year’s work will be extended to black and minority ethnic elders and older people with disabilities. |
Organisation: Berkshire West PCT Project: Reading Health activists Area of benefit: Abbey, Norcot, Church and Whitley wards in Reading Main strand: Mental health, Physical activity, Healthy Eating Brief project description The programme empowers local people with skills, knowledge and resources needed to work with their community groups to improve health and well being. Activists will identify local health needs, provide feedback to strategic planning, work with relevant professionals to develop and deliver specific and targeted health promotion initiatives, provide a link to overcome language barriers and culture between health staff and patients. |
Organisation: Bucks & Milton Keynes Sports Partnership Project: Active Communities Area of benefit: Targetted wards in Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Buks, Wycombe Main strand: Physical activity Brief project description Aylesbury – behavioural change programme to help people to be more active and healthy, provisions and incentives for physical activity opportunities e.g. reward scheme, pedometer loan scheme, health walks, walking to work and school, community sports coaches Chiltern – community sports coaches, sports zones, walks, training to youth leaders etc. South Bucks – Family activity days, new Simply Walk Routes etc. Wycombe – 8 -12 years group at Land End youth centre, train youth workers in sports etc. |
Organisation: Healthy Living Centre Project: Cook and Eat Bucks Area of benefit: Targetted wards in Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Chiltern Main strand: Healthy Eating Brief project description A mulit-partner project delivering a programme of cookery, nutrition and food hygiene skills training. It will be held in community settings in deprived wards throughout Buckinghamshire targeting disadvantaged families, children and young people, teenage parents. |
Organisation: Milton Keynes PCT Project: Well Being Coordinator Area of benefit: Milton Keynes Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description A Well Being coordinator will help to increase opportunities for healthier living and develop a programme of culturally appropriate physical activities for people in targeted areas of Milton Keynes. |
Organisation: Wokingham District Council Project: Family Well Being Support Volunteers Area of benefit: Keepwatch Children’s Centre, Finchampstead Community Centre, Rainbow Park Community Centre, Wokingham Main strand: Mental Health, Healthy Eating Brief project description The project will train volunteers in the skills and knowledge required to support families in developing healthy lifestyles – healthy eating, coping with challenges and maintaining relationships. They will provide short term assistance in the homes and community settings and supplement local professionals along the lines of Homestart. |
Organisation: Berkshire East PCT Project: WEBE (Well Being in Berkshire East) Area of benefit: Targetted wards in Slough, Bracknell, Windsor and Maidenhead, Main strand: Mental health, Physical Activity, Healthy eating Brief project description A portfolio of projects, targeting BME communities, disadvantaged and vulnerable families, young people at risk, housebound. Obesity reduction programmes; healthy eating for BME and older people, falls prevention(Extended SHAPE project);Theatre in Education on mental health awareness and anti-bullying, Healthy eating in hospitals; Healthy Families; Workplace health etc. |
| Sussex and Surrey |
Organisation: Sussex County Sports Partnership Project: Active workplace Area of benefit: Adur, Arun, Mid Sussex, Chichester, Crawley, Eastbourne. Hastings, Horsham, Rother, Wealden, Brighton and Hove, Lewes, Worthing Main strand: Mental Health, Physical Activity, Healthy eating Brief project description The Active workplace officer will develop workplace physical activity and effect change to positive attitudes towards healthy eating and improving well being. Targeted workplaces are in areas of deprivation and with high stress levels. |
Organisation: Crawley Borough Council Project: Active, Healthy Crawley Area of benefit: Crawley Main strand: Mental Health, Physical Activity, Healthy eating Brief project description Enabling people from the three target groups: People at risk of Mental health problems; BME groups, Socially older people to be more active and eat healthily via programmes supported by an outreach specialist. |
Organisation: Action in Rural Sussex Project: Community Cookery Development Area of benefit: East & West Sussex, Brighton and Hove Main strand: Healthy Eating Brief project description Strategic approach to community cookery and nutrition skills development incorporating skilling up of key workers and development of training programme; volunteer programme fro community cooks; development and delivery of lifestyles courses. |
Organisation: Common Cause Co-operative Project: Community Growing Area of benefit: Sussex (targeting Brighton and Hastings) Main strand: Healthy Eating Brief project description The project will promote existing healthy eating resource; roll out the Beet That card game; provide workshops and accredited training sessions to the unemployed and low income, geographically and socially isolated and provide mentoring and support and work with local professional growers to develop work experience. |
Organisation: Worthing and Littlehampton MIND Project: Get Active Main strand: Mental health, Healthy Eating Brief project description Get Active provides sports and other forms of physical activity for people with Mental Health problems in Worthing and Littlehampton e.g swimming, gym, walks, skating etc. |
Organisation: Brighton and Hove City Council Sports Development Project: The Active for Life Project Area of benefit: Two deprived areas in Brighton Main strand: Mental Health, Physical Activity Brief project description An Active for Life coordinator will work in two deprived areas in Brighton and deliver new accessible exercise activities. Local people will be trained to be leaders, volunteers and coaches. The project will also work with local community clubs and schools. |
Organisation: Arts Partnership Surrey Project: Sorted! Tea Time to Dance Area of benefit: Surrey Main strand: Mental health, Physical Activity Brief project description An intergenerational dance project across the county involving young dance makers and over 50’s groups. A 10 week dance programme will run across the county in identified locations and end with a celebrating showcase festival. |
Organisation: Mary Frances Trust Project: Healthy Mind – Healthy Body Area of benefit: Leatherhead and other areas in Surrey Main strand: Mental health, Physical Activity and Healthy eating Brief project description The project supports people with Mental Health issues to access activities in local leisure centres; provide healthy eating education programme, Diet clubs, use of models such as Expert Patient; build networks and reduce stigma with service providers. |
Organisation: Music, Mind, Spirit Trust Project: Sound Bites Area of benefit: Farnham and Cranleigh, Park Barn and Bellfields Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description An intergenerational project with music and dance activities for pre-school and school children, parents, grandparents and older people. Training programmes will be provided for teachers, artists and healthcare workers. |
Organisation: Surrey PCT (East Elmbridge & Mid Surrey) Project: Prevention of Eating Disorders ~ Area of benefit: Surrey Main strand: Mental health, Healthy eating Brief project description This training project supports the prevention of eating disorders with people working with 11-19 years old and young people themselves through a rolling education programme. ‘In the Pantry’, a multidisciplinary arts programme will complement these workshops with young people in schools. |
Organisation: Surrey PCT (Surrey Heath & Woking/North Surrey) Project: Get Up and Go Area of benefit: West Surrey boroughs Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description The project will establish a training course for people working with older people to help deliver chair based physical activity in the communities such as day centres, residential homes etc. |
Organisation: Active Surrey Sports Partnership Project: Active Surrey – Breaking the Tape Area of benefit: Surrey Main strand: Physical Activity Brief project description The project works with Special Schools to enable them to provide quality physical activities for disabled students through training of staff and community sports coach. It will work with local clubs to ensure that disability clubs have the right support to provide appropriate physical activities for their members. Disabled people are supported to be sports coaches and volunteers. |
Organisation: Surrey PCT (Guildford & Waverkey, East Elmbridge & Mid Surrey) Project: Cook and Eat Surrey Area of benefit: Surrey Main strand: Healthy eating Brief project description The project will provide ‘cook and eat’ training programme to childcare workers in children’s centre, support staff in prisons, staff in pupil referral units and deliver practical sessions with clients. |
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