Healthy Communities

Health for All has a 34 year track record of establishing and facilitating health enhancing community groups, working with partner organisations to deliver city-wide initiatives which improve health through community support and friendship. Healthy Communities is the umbrella for our wide range of healthy lifestyle projects and groups. Our flagship service delivered through Healthy Communities is Better Together which seeks to improve the health of individuals by developing a range of groups supporting communities in south Leeds.

Better Together

Better Together, funded by Leeds City Council Public Health, is a collaborative partnership between Health for All, St Lukes Cares, Holbeck Together and ASHA. The Better Together programme provides an inclusive array of group activities, events and individual support across south Leeds. It supports people from all ethnicities to receive the ‘right support at the right time’. Our four Community Development workers in the Better Together team enable both individuals and groups to achieve better health outcomes.

The team uses community health development approaches, establishing groups in response to need and interests, running health enhancing events, promoting health messages and campaigns in centres within the hearts of communities. Over 5700 adults were supported along with 50 groups serving communities including Bangladeshi, Chinese, Hongkongers, eastern European, young mums, older people, community choirs, peer support and activity groups offering health walks, gardening, parents & tots, mental health support, music and dance, arts and crafts, ESOL, exercise. Weekly groups are supported by staff and volunteers with the necessary language skills and cultural knowledge and are supported to independence so enabling their sustainability through small grants.

For more information contact Balwinder Kaur: balwinder.kaur@healthforall.org.uk

Walk It, Ride It

This is a pilot project in south and east Leeds aiming to encourage and enable individuals and groups to build the confidence and motivation to take part in health enhancing walks to address health conditions.  

For more information contact Gayle Graham: gayle.graham@healthforall.org.uk 

Hongkongers

A recent project engaged and welcomed 65 Hongkongers through friendship and activity sessions, delivered by our staff with the necessary language skills and cultural knowledge. The Hongkongers group is now independent, meeting weekly at Beeston Village Community Centre enabling members to take part in a wide range of health enhancing activities. 

For more information contact huazhu Liu: hua.liu@healthforall.org.uk

Our breadth of work reducing health inequalities with excluded communities helps us channel experiences and aspirations from grassroots to influence policy.