Wellnet

What is Wellnet?

Wellnet is a learning network aimed at connecting, inspiring and motivating all those working in health and well-being promotion across London. Wellnet shares fresh ideas for boosting well-being through community-led activities.

Interventions to promote well-being across London will be more effective because new insights, tools and ways of working developed through Well London and other programmes in London will be shared between our 20 target communities, and with the Borough and PCTs where they are located, and with strategic agencies working pan London.

For more information please contact Jane Mulholland on 020 7234 9403 or j.mulholland@lsx.org.uk

Key objectives

• Increase in confidence, ability and effectiveness of London’s professionals and communities to design and deliver interventions
• New approaches developed by Well London are disseminated to representatives from every London Borough
• Increased opportunities for services, interventions and projects aimed at increasing well-being to better coordinated at a local level

Case studies

• Combined dance company
• Cooking from Scratch
• Joy of Sound
• Greenwich Community Food Initiative
• Kids Cafe Network
• Knees up
• Mental Health Promotion Sedgehill School
• Rushey Green Time Bank
• Safety of Food for Ethnic Minorities

Events

• Youth, health and happiness: Engaging and working with young people to boost health and well-being (02 February 2010)
• Creative ways to Wellbeing event (16 November 2009)
• Making mental well-being matter - celebrating our Mental Well-being Impact Assessment volunteers (8 October 2009)
• Well London - The big picture (25 September 2009)
• Behaviour Change for a more sustainable London (10 September 2009)
• Power to the people - celebrating our Well London Delivery Teams (1 July 2009)
• London Community Feast: Promoting well-being through community-led projects (19 May 2009)
• Wellnet Pan-London Well-Being Event: Measuring happiness: how to put well-being at the heart of the community (27 March 2009)
• Wellnet Sub-Regional Food Event: Better food for all: promoting well-being through community-led food projects (17 March 2009)
• Communities in Control: effective community engagement for health and well-being (19 September 2008)

WellNet bulletin

Online editions of the periodic WellNet bulletin sent by the London Sustainability Exchange is available at www.lsx.org.uk/whatwedo/bulletin_page3226.aspx.