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Well London Community Engagement and

Development

• The strategic partnership for health in London
• Aims to reduce health inequalities and improve the health of all Londoners
• Multi-sectoral – all key sectors represented at regional level
• Influencing, supporting, driving change
• Focus on social determinants of health

Well London Alliance

• London Health Commission
• Central YMCA
• Groundwork London
• London Sustainability Exchange
• University of East London
• South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
• Arts Council-London

20 lower super output areas

• Brent
• Croydon
• Greenwich
• Hammersmith & Fulham
• Haringey
• Islington
• Lambeth
• Newham
• Tower Hamlets
  • Barking & Dagenham
  • Camden
  • Ealing
  • Enfield
  • Hackney
  • Hounslow
  • Kensington & Chelsea
  • Lewisham
  • Waltham Forest
  • Westminster
  • Southwark

Outcomes

• 34, 508 direct beneficiaries will have increased opportunity for healthy levels of physical activity, healthy eating and mental well being
• 5,176 direct beneficiaries will have improved mental health and well being and in addition there will be more positive community perspectives on mental health & well being
• 4,602 direct beneficiaries (3,424 adults and 1,178 children) will have increased uptake of healthy eating choices; including enhanced access to affordable healthy foods
• 4,348 direct beneficiaries will have increased levels of

healthy physical activity

Features of Well London

• Partnership approach to delivery
• Work at the very local level
• Work in the most deprived communities
• Innovative approach to community engagement
• Community development approach
• Join up, integrate and add value to local work on healthy eating, physical

activity, mental health and open spaces, and use of cultural and creative practice throughout

• Rigorous evaluation
• Influencing policy and practice across London and beyond

Projects

Heart of the Community:

• CADBE*
• W L Delivery Team
• Youth.comUnity
• Active Living Map
• Training Communities
• Wellnet

• Community Assessment, Design, Brokerage, Enterprise

Themed:

• Activate London
• BuyWell
• EatWell
• Changing Minds
• DIY Happiness
• MWIA
• Healthy Spaces
• Be Creative Be Well

Innovative Approach to Community Engagement

• Dual Task approach
  • Information and problem solving
  • Capacity Building
• Two Community Cafes in Each Area based on World Cafe Concept plus street interviews

and focus groups

• Community Action Workshop in each area based on Appreciative enquiry (joint with

community members and stat/vol sector stakeholders).

• Just under 1,400 engaged (1,100 Cafe & FG participants and 300 street interviews)
• Wide spread in ethnicity and tradition and age / sex
• Approx 5% of the resident population

So findings are expressed needs and perceptions of a significant sample of people living in the

most deprived areas of London

Findings – Key themes

Looking across the areas:

• Concerns of and about Youth

• Lack of Community and Community Cohesion

• Parks, green space and dogs

• Fast food and healthy eating

• Communication

• Coordination and sustainability

Action – young people

• Specific initiatives in specific areas
• Youth.com project involving young people in all aspects of Well

London delivery

• Leveraging local authority provision
• Focus on cross-generational projects
• Adoption of the GLA Youth Peer Outreach

approach

Action - Open spaces

• Work on improving open space aesthetically; and bringing

activities into it.

• Work with local authorities to surface issue and secure better

enforcement of existing laws and regulations.

Action - healthy eating

• Buywell working on supply side
• Eatwell working on demand side