Ways to Wellness: improving health and wellbeing in Westcliff

Ways to Wellness is a project based around improving health and wellbeing in the Westcliff community. We have been awarded five years' funding from The National Lottery Community Fund.

The project emerged from our previous Big Lottery funded project, Listen Include and Build, which focused on getting people into employment and family learning activities. Consultation with the community identified that people on the Westcliff estate experience significantly higher rates of ill-health, leading to life-limiting mental and/or physical conditions. Ways to Wellness seeks to address these inequalities by building on the strengths of local people.

We hope that by the end of the project we will have helped people access what goes on in Westcliff and beyond, along with new activities organised on the estate. Get in touch if you'd like to know more about the project, becoming a Buddy, or volunteering.