Healthy Living Network
The new heart for the East End Healthy Living Network is a Big Lottery funded project which brings together a variety of different organisations to provide services and activities, all aimed at widening the range of health services for East End residents and improving the general quality of life for local people. The East End covers Cattedown, Coxside, Prince Rock and Lower St Judes.
Groups currently benefiting from Big Lottery funding are:
- Parent and children activities at Families First in the Plymouth Christian Centre
- Breakfast and after school clubs and street dancing at Prince Rock Primary School
- Breakfast and after school clubs and street dancing at Salisbury Road Junior School
- Complementary therapies at Nomony Children’s Centre
- Healthy cookery and weight management classes
- Various exercise classes at Tresillian Street Centre, Prince Rock Primary School and the Christian Centre, Cattedown Roundabout
Support is also given to the Eldertree Social Visiting Service who run coffee, lunch and supper clubs, computer classes, day trips for the over 60’s and Sutton Play Rangering Service who provide play activities in local parks.
The services are based on what the East End community have said they wanted in various consultations which have taken place over the past few years as part of the planning for the regeneration of the area.
The idea of the network is to make sure that each of the organisations involved are all working together as much as possible to make the best of the activities they can deliver, by sharing facilities, promoting each other’s services and making sure everyone who uses the services can find out about other opportunities in the area.
Specific aims of the network are:
- To improve the health and well-being of the people in the area
- To reduce health inequality and levels of disadvantage in the area
- To maximise the involvement of the people in the three communities
- To raise the profile of the three communities in the city through good practice and by hosting services for people across the city
Individual objectives are:
Developing a network of health improving activities targeted to reduce health inequalities in the area and improve the perception of the area amongst residents and the wider community, including:
- The promotion of child development and parenting skills
- To improve sexual health and lifestyle, reduce levels of teenage pregnancy and promote access to health for young people
- To prevent and improve the management of coronary heart disease and cancer
- To improve the involvement of older people in activities and their ability to live independently
A programme of residential and environmental improvements to tackle the determinants of health and to safeguard the future well-being of the area.