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Community Roadshow 2023

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Livewell Southwest’s Wellbeing Team and Food is Fun CIC to coordinate and facilitate a series of community engagement events to support local communities with healthy lifestyle behaviours under the constraints of the cost of living crisis. This will be a roadshow event style and will take place in different communities across the city. The most deprived communities will be targeted based on local knowledge and according to the indices of multiple deprivation (IMD).

Food is Fun CIC will provide slow cookery workshops. The Wellbeing Team will use this opportunity to offer brief behaviour change interventions for those in attendance.

Genie Gym; exercise classes with childcare attached

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Improving access to a healthier lifestyle and improving the wellbeing of individuals by providing childcare during exercise classes to remove barriers for parents. A series of classes will be run, while children are looked after within the same building (for example, by utilising 2 rooms in the same community centre). The aim is to provide access to classes that would otherwise be out of reach for parents who cannot afford them, and who do not have anyone to care for their children. Exercise improves mental health and by improving the wellbeing of the parents, the children will also benefit.

Get Crafty

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Our current popular weekly craft day offers a safe, warm space for people to meet, share stories, develop friendships and connect through art and craft. We want to add a Saturday craft workshop aimed at families. A shared activity creates a lasting memory, brings people together and gives the mind a short break from the pressures of the current cost of living crisis which is affecting us all. We do not want to pass our increased costs on to people already feeling the pinch. Funding would enable us to offer these sessions free of charge to all.

“Not on my own”

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Improving wellbeing and enabling people experiencing homelessness to reach their full potential and thrive.

Homelessness is a devastating, isolating, lonely experience linked to physical and mental ill-health, poverty and occupational deprivation. Building upon grassroots efforts, user feedback and participatory research, this project will be managed by Plymouth Soup Run in partnership with Plymouth Alliance members, Plymouth Access to Housing (Path) and Shekinah, plus the Health Inclusion Pathway Plymouth (HIPP). It will target people who are homeless or in transition, (e.g. from rough sleeping into accommodation, from addiction to recovery, from hospital admission and treatment to discharge), providing personalised support to tackle economic and practical obstacles to leading healthy, meaningful lives, and building sustainable futures.

The Village Hub Club

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Our need is working with people not for them and to ensure support is proportionate.

We have found the following useful:
Having an Emergency Fund where visitors can access provisions at a local shop
Providing Advice and Support
Sharing information at awareness events – a one stop shop
Paid advertising to reach as many people as possible.
Work with existing partnerships e.g. JarSquad learning to turn surplus food into meals
Upskilling the community by providing training on food hygiene so visitors can make nutritious meals for the community using items from our food larder.

What’s next Stoke?

Mindful Art Club Cost Of Living

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My idea is to hold a group once a week and will be alligned to health inequalities, lonliness and isolation. Our vision is to develop the emotional literacy and help-seeking behaviours of the people who come so that everyone has the opportunity to thrive. We want our community to come together and support each other.We will create wellbeing, generate resilience, provide accurate information and social networks. We know there is a need for this project as we are a grass-roots organisation and listen to peoples stories everyday about how much they are struggling with the cost of living

“The Kind Shop” (Plymouth Scrapstore)

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We want to continue to provide an affordable, accessible, welcoming, thriving and creative resource centre and workshop space -a connecting place – for and with our communities, underpinned with kindness and a non-judgemental approach that costs no more to the visitor or beneficiary, as a result of the increased cost of living. We do not want to pass increased costs on to members, residents and visitors.
We benefit residents as individuals living in the area and across the City, through grassroots community groups, as students, in childcare provision, schools – all of which have seen rising costs.

Onward community drop in activities

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We currently run a weekly food aid drop in session that has also gown in to a social gathering opportunity. Apart from supporting people with food items we have become aware of other needs both emotioinal and practical. As part of the drop in we also have Plymouth claiments union who meet every fortnight to support people with benefit advice. We would like to expand with other activities and support to people.

We have had many requests for various other support, both practical and creative and see there is great need. We would like to engauge a community sessional worker.

English4Equity

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Not having enough English language to seek to access entitlements and seek their rights with dignity places asylum seekers & refugees at the lower end of any crisis. Access to Centres and offices with duties to address gaps they face and where barriers must be tackled is restricted and subject to strict control that set precedence for isolation and loneliness. Our idea is to provide a centre accessible 7 days for and run by themselves where they can invite locals’ native speakers to support their practical English. They say, give us the language and let us seek equity.

Giggles Crisis Support

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We’ll offer a space where our community can get help with forms, phone calls & signposting to food/warm banks. Whilst here they can join in with our craft workshops to give their minds a much needed rest from all the fears & worries caused by this cost of living crisis.

They’re already reaching out for financial help, assistance & advice from us.Their mental health is suffering & we already have a safe, warm , trusted space, we’re in a prime position to help. Our community will be supported, listened to & know that they are not alone in this crisis.

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