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We’re working with Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board to improve the lives of local people, and this funding is part of a larger programme of support to deliver our joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
These projects and interventions will make a huge difference and help improve adults and children’s health over the long-term, supporting some of the most vulnerable people and communities in North Somerset.
Funding is being announced in stages, with projects encompassing general themes.
The first batch included services and programmes that encourage healthy eating and to improve people’s knowledge of and access to nutritious, affordable food.
This includes £63,000 to help adults access 12-week weight management courses, and £60,000 for community food programmes.
The second lot of funding included projects that have a positive impact on communities, particularly during this cost-of-living crisis.
Successful programmes include £96,325 for the Warmer Homes, Advice and Money service to help the most vulnerable residents, and £77,750 to tackle health inequalities in the South Ward area of Weston-super-Mare.
Projects to support mental health have also received much needed funding, to help local people experience a better quality of life and reduce feelings of isolation, loneliness, anxiety and depression.
This includes £59,800 to Reclaim Counselling to provide additional counselling support to those who have experienced domestic abuse, including children and young people, and £35,100 to Osprey Outdoors to offer a series of activity days and short courses to vulnerable adults.
The latest funding to be announced is to support programmes which encourage people to get active, whether that’s individually, in groups or as a family.
We want to create good health and wellbeing throughout life by preventing problems or offering help as early as possible. This means not only helping people to live longer, but also having more years enjoying good health and wellbeing.
The projects being funded include £18,000 to expand the current Health Walks programme and £32,000 for Age UK Somerset to increase the variety of exercise and movement classes and events for older people.