The West Cornwall Healthy Living Centre (WCHLC) represents a merger of Kerrier
Healthy Living Centre (KHLC) and Penwith Healthy Living Network (PHLN).
Both the KHLC and the PHLN were Lottery funded organisations working to reduce
health inequalities across West Cornwall and both were highly successful in reaching the most vulnerable
members of society.
The WCHLC enables the experience and expertise built up over the past three
years to be developed and extended into new services. The four schemes within the WCHLC compliment each
other well and combine to form a comprehensive support package and promotional forum for community health
and well-being projects.
The WCHLC is a pilot project, funded by:
Aims of WCHLC
WCHLC aims to provide a vehicle for health professionals, voluntary and community sector
organisations and individuals to work together to improve health and well-being and reduce health inequality across West Cornwall.
Objectives of WCHLC
To provide a proactice and holistic approach to tackling underlying health problems by linking health
professional, health based organisations and individuals through the following schemes:
- GP Recommendation Scheme
- Central Information and Support Scheme
- Volunteer Recruitment Scheme
- Well-being Activities
Roles of the WCHLC Strategic Management Group Members
- To provide strategic guidance to the WCHLC
- To provide support and advice to the WCHLC project staff
- To share their expertise in order to support the development of WCHLC
- To support and develop networks in order to promote and sustain the WCHLC
The WCHLC Steering Group meets every 8 weeks.
Strategic Management Group Members
Ray Ashmore - Kerrier District Council
Andy Brelsford - Cornwall Centre for Volunteers
Guy Botterill - Penwith District Council
Dilys Down - Penwith Community Development Trust
Sue Guard - Penwith Community Development Trust
Clive Harrold - Penwith Community Development Trust
Nicky Houghton - CIOS Primary Care Trust
Louise Knox - Pentreath Ltd
Jackie Lawrence - Cornwall Works
Dr Rupert Manley - Stennack Surgery, St Ives
Julie Moseley - CIOS Primary Care Trust
Alex Ollivier- Health Promotion Cornwall
Gemma Stephenson - Cornwall County Council
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Searching for Health and Well-being Projects in West Cornwall
This site enables you to use various
methods to search for Health and Well-being Projects in West Cornwall.
The first method will enable you to search for the project using the Project Category.
A Health Promotion section is also included and adds
further categories to the search options.
There is also a small section on Complementary Health, and a list of Complementary Health Initiative members.
If you can't find what you are looking for in the main categories, take a look in
the Other options. This will lead you to new search categories.
Finally you can search for the project you want from within the
A to Z file.
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