The North West Network for Healthy Living Partnerships has been successful in obtaining £7m of funding from the Big Lottery’s Wellbeing fund. Debra Person Co-ordinator for ZEST in North Manchester and Val Little Health Improvement Manager for South Manchester Healthy Living Network have been working with a small planning group lead by Stockport Resource Consultancy for the past year to put the bid together. The money will help to deliver a range of projects across 27 Healthy Living Centre Initiatives across the North West region over the next five years.
The three Manchester healthy living centres including ZEST, South Manchester Healthy Living Network and BLOOM in central area will be funded up to £50K per year for five years to deliver a range of local initiatives including:
Healthy eating programmes, weight management programmes, developing fruit and veg growing opportunities and supporting local families in South, North and central Manchester. They will also work closely with statutory and voluntary sector building on existing projects and supporting the work which has already been going on.
They will work in partnership by sharing good practice both across Manchester and the North West. Work has already started within the PCT, a planning group consisting of PCT and statutory and voluntary agencies will be steering some of the projects for the next five years and beyond.
If you would like any further information or would like to get involved please contact;
Val Little 0161 217 3667 or Debra Pearson 1061 655 7889
