The Big Lottery Fund’s ‘Target Wellbeing’ is supporting nine individual projects in Halton under the banner of Halton’s Health Partnership and covers three main priorities of Mental Health, Physical Activity and Diet.  The work has been commissioned as part of the Halton Strategic Partnership’s clearly defined approach to ‘making it happen in Halton’ the Community Strategy. Read more

The Big Lottery Fund’s ‘Target Wellbeing’ is supporting nine individual projects in Halton under the banner of Halton’s Health Partnership and covers three main priorities of Mental Health, Physical Activity and Diet.  The work has been commissioned as part of the Halton Strategic Partnership’s clearly defined approach to ‘making it happen in Halton’ the Community Strategy.

The projects being supported are:

Diamond Life – working with isolated and vulnerable older people to develop and implement personal lifestyle plans.

Bounce Into Action – providing opportunities for physical activity based around table tennis for women, girls and older people.

Kingsway Bike Project – encouraging cycling as a form of physical activity by establishing a maintenance ‘club’ to increase the skills of the local community.

Halton Supported Employment – giving adults with learning disabilities specific landscape gardening employment opportunities, and providing vulnerable tenants with gardening services.

Halton Walksafe – helping older people to increase their physical activity through a programme of ‘close to home’ walks.

Re-Cycle Repair – recycling old bicycles and turning them into safe and useable ones that are distributed to children and adults not in a financial position to take up cycling

Jigsaw – offering a quick response to those who are experiencing mild depression or coping with difficult life issues such as divorce, bereavement and post-traumatic stress.

Tai Chi for Cancel Patients and Carers – Provision of regular tai Chi classes to people who are living with or have been touched by cancer.

Halton Grow Healthy – a gardening and food education programme to engage mixed-age residents, adults with learning difficulties, older people and people suffering from mental illness.

The strategic approach to commissioning means the programme outcomes are those which address clearly identified gaps within Halton, ensuring that the Health Partnership’s contribution to Halton’s future is matched to the area’s need.

For more information on these projects contact Matt Atheron at Halton and St Helens PCT on 01928 593 007