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The Communities Keeping Well Programme [North East] is working in partnership with two communities to support them to live healthier lives. Residents have established their health and wellbeing priorities and will be running their own projects to support these priorities.
We are working in two locations
- Old Ford
- Devons Road
‘Building a Well Communities Research Consortium’ 2022-2023 in Old Ford
Prior to Communities Keeping Well, Old Ford has been a community worked with for several years with various projects including Communities Driving Change. In 2022-23 Well Communities in collaboration with City University of London, North East London ICS, Tower Hamlets Council, and Tower Hamlets Community Voluntary Sector and is part of the broader Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded ‘Building a Well Communities Research Consortium’ project.
Communities Keeping Well built on the engagement and insights from this year from January 2024 onwards working with key residents and stakeholders identified and continued to bring the local priorities to the forefront of Communities Keeping Well.
Old Ford
From January 2024 we engaged with 45 residents through street conversations, door knocking, and focus groups to identify what would make local people’s community a healthier place to live and what they are doing to improve their health and wellbeing. We visited a range of locations including schools, mosque’s, churches, GP practices, and community organisations and held a health event in March 2024 as residents in 2023 identified a barrier to accessing information and health information. We engaged with 25 residents about their health and wellbeing and the priorities identified in the previous year.
We engaged with 45 residents through street conversations, door knocking, and focus groups.
- Access to Information
- Social connection and loneliness
- Food and healthy eating
- Physical activity
- Community safety and local environment
- Young people and families
- Access to green space/outdoor spaces
To find out more about your community voting day, click on 'Read more' below.
Community Voting Day
We are funding projects to address community priorities in Old Ford. At the Community Voting Day, residents will share their project ideas with local people to get their support. Local people will then vote on the project ideas that they like best.
Old Ford residents will then present their project ideas in a Dragon’s Den style event called a Community Voting Day on December 14th from 11.00am-2.00pm.
We engaged 50 residents through street conversations and door knocking to identify what would make their community a healthier place to live and what they are currently doing for their physical and mental wellbeing.
Our local stakeholders are:
Bromley by Bow Health Centre
East Side Youth Centre
Linc Centre (Poplar Harca)
Trapped in Zone One
Bike Works
Alexandra Rose Charity
Women’s Environmental Network
Bow Hub
Bromley by Bow Masjid
The Marner Primary School
St Pauls Way Health Centre
The Clara Grant Primary School
Family Hubs
Mind
- Access to information / communication
- Food and healthy eating
- Social connection and loneliness
- Physical activity
- Young people and families
- Housing and regeneration
- Community safety
- Access to green space / outdoor space
To find out more about your community voting day, click on 'Read more' below.
Devons Road Community Voting Day
This is a new way of funding projects in the Lansbury area that address community priorities. At the Community Voting Day residents will share their project ideas with local people to get their support. Local people will then vote on the project ideas that they like best.
Devons Road residents will present their project ideas in a Dragon’s Den style event called a Community Voting Day on Saturday 18th January 2025 at Linc Centre.
We also held an online ‘Priorities and Synergies’ event to run through the action plan that came from engagement with residents exploring the local priorities. This meeting was held with local stakeholders across both Old Ford and Devons Road. We had 60 stakeholders attend this from local community groups and charities to the local authority to discuss how to address the items in the action plan together at a local level.
