Training: Evaluating the impact of Health & Wellbeing Projects

SALC’s Community Health & Wellbeing programme offers support to Somerset’s City, Town and Parish Councils to actively engage in, and deliver, community health & wellbeing projects. Several parishes, or groups of parishes, have already received grants from the programme and have delivered/are delivering projects. Others are working with SALC’s Community Health & Wellbeing team to develop ideas and applying for funding.

Many councils support health & wellbeing projects: by funding from their own precept money; delivering projects; giving funding to outside organisations; applying for outside funding. Whatever your council does you’ve likely asked some of the following questions: 

• How do we evaluate the benefits (outcomes) of the projects we deliver? 
• How do we know if our project is having the impact we hoped for? 
• How do we know if our project is reaching the people we hoped to reach?
• How does a project develop and what element might have led to the desired outcomes?
• How do we gather this information?
  

This interactive webinar, delivered by the Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health, University of Lincoln, will set out different approaches we can use to understand the health and wellbeing benefits of projects in real world settings. Outcomes might include things like people feeling less lonely because of taking part in a social group, increase in physical activity outside sessions provided, reduced stress levels from joining a community singing group. 

In addition, the session asks us to think about who we can involve, how and when. 

We welcome Councillors and Clerks to come along and find out more.

Host: Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health, University of Lincoln

Time:  10:00 – 12:00

Date:  Wednesday 23^rd October 2024

Place: Remote

(a Teams link will be forwarded to you when you reserve a place)

FREE 

To reserve a place email Kerrin:  HWBAdmin@somerset-alc.org.uk