Well London: communities working together for a healthier city

Objectives

To combat all of the problems affecting the 20 communities the Well London project had the following overall aims:

• To change perspectives on mental health – tackling stigma – and promoting positive mental welfare

• Increasing peoples opportunities to become more active

• Improving understanding of, and access to, healthy food

• Develop healthy spaces

• Ensure that projects were relevant to the communities’ culture and tradition.

A key objective of the Well London project was to develop a locally focussed and community-led approach that improves community health and well-being and is effective and sustainable in even the most deprived neighbourhoods.

Well London sought to engage and empower people to build and strengthen the foundations of good health and wellbeing in their communities through:

• increasing community participation in activities that enhance health and wellbeing.
• building individual and community confidence, cohesion, sense of control and self esteem
• integrating with and adding value to what is already going on locally
• identifying, designing and taking action on health related needs and issues
• building capacity of local organisations to deliver activities and making strategic links locally and regionally so the improvement in health and well-being is sustainable for the longer term

The project also had a mission towards capturing the learning and experience gained to influence policy and practice to secure improvements in well-being and reducing health inequalities within London but also communities across the world. To achieve this, the project would develop robust, evidence based models and benchmarks for health and well-being.

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