Introduction
In my Annual Report, I usually like to describe some of the amazing progress made towards the ambitions of Thrive Plymouth, our programme to tackle health inequality in Plymouth. However, for the last 18 months, many of the activities that our partners and Plymouth City Council deliver under the Thrive Plymouth banner have had to be halted or radically changed, because of COVID-19.
This was particularly the case in Year 6 of Thrive Plymouth, since we were focussing on the participation in arts, heritage, culture and hospitality and its connection to good wellbeing in the year of Mayflower 400; obviously, many of the planned events did not go ahead.
This Annual Report will reflect on some of the key information and experiences that the city has been through over the last 18 months since we had our first COVID-19 case in mid-March 2020.
This is not about reliving these difficult times, rather it is about recognising the strengths that have been shown across the city; being Good Neighbours, volunteering to support the vaccination efforts, and doing all we can to keep each other safe.
Thrive Plymouth is about partnerships, and this report also serves to recognise some of those partners; as always with the Annual Report, we can only showcase the few, but use them to highlight the work of the many.