Tendring Community Assets Full Final Report

58 Organisation Activity Live Well categories Amount Essex Carers Support Action Learning Research Project adult carers supported on a 1:1 basis will identify, source and resource innovative, creative and personalised carer breaks. A final project report will share this learning with partners and provide a useful tool for persuading change amongst those involved in the facilitation and provision of carer breaks Feel Well, Be Well, Age Well, Stay Well, Die Well £25,000 Extra Support for Families Holistic support aimed at improving the mental health, confidence and resilience of parents/carers in Tendring. The project will consist of three ‘Improving Your Emotional Wellbeing’ 5 week courses, two ‘Building Confidence’ 8 week courses and three ‘Building Resilience’ 2 hour workshops. Start Well, Feel Well £19,456 Home Start Colchester Delivery of a multi component service including, workshops to meet unmet need, one to one peer personal support and assistance. Providing encouragement, practical support and reducing barriers to access. Create and deliver 14 workshops with themes under Healthy Eating, Improve Wellbeing, Build self-help skills and Play workshops running alongside wellbeing groups Start Well, Feel Well, Be Well, Age Well, Stay Well £13,700 SUMMIT Individuals with persistent and serious mental illness will be assisted to develop the emotional, social and intellectual skills needed to live, learn and work in the community with the least amount of professional support. Trained Volunteers, shadowing experience with trained staff will provide the service including GP Appointment Buddies. Feel Well, Be Well, Age Well, Stay Well £14,500 Tendring Community Transport Funding towards the purchase of a 15 passenger, wheelchair accessible minibus to enable growth to the community transport services. The door to door service will support the outlying villages, plus all areas on route between Clacton on Sea and Harwich. Be Well, Age Well £10,000 Total awarded £100,136 15.5.3 Funding was used to enable this research to be undertaken, the results of which will be of use to local community and voluntary organisations in terms of their own development and bids for funding. The next steps will be to find a means of publishing and maintaining the directory, which has been developed from this research. As with any directory, it is only accurate on the day the information is collated, so work will need to be done to make it widely accessible and to keep it current. Any new services will need to be added and those that are no longer operational will need to be deleted. 15.5.4 This work shows the importance of going where people go, making information accessible, using people who have the motivation to make a difference in their community and, above all, making sure that prevention has both a meaning and an impact.