The Our Community Can project finishes on 31.3.25
Our Community Can aims to support people across Herefordshire and Worcestershire, particularly those living in rural communities, to be active and creative. We want to help communities provide more opportunities that bring people together to help reduce social isolation and loneliness.
We will look to develop and empower local communities to introduce sustainable activities. This will allow communities to develop their own, more flexible approach to engaging people in physical activity, which is more likely to result in long term behaviour change and an increased sense of wellbeing.
Identifying volunteers and those willing to take a lead on the project within their communities will assist in making the programme sustainable for the future, therefore seeing a continuation of further activity.
Each community will have their own individual needs so there won't be a one size fits all model but we want to offer opportunities to:
- Understand community needs and motivations
- Network with other people and organisations
- Deliver taster events and/or sessions
- Train volunteers and leaders
- Access funding opportunities
- Develop new and sustainable local active and creative opportunities
Our Community Can: A Process and Impact Evaluation (PDF, 2 Mb)
Read our most recent project report filled with learnings and success from the first three years of the Our Community Can project.
Jazmin Chester
Strategic Lead for Healthy and Active Communities
- Provide strategic oversight to deconditioning and reconditioning areas of work, including but not limited to falls, frailty, resistance training and active ageing.
- Oversee areas of work that focus on loneliness and social isolation issues, with special consideration for rurality context, which may include walking and activity in village halls.
- Leads on Train the Trainer resistance band exercise programme.
- Mobile
- 07917 213953
- j.chester@worc.ac.uk
