Six areas in England have been chosen to join the first phase of a major grant-funding and development programme designed to improve the health and wellbeing of communities and tackle health inequalities. The Healthy Communities Together programme, which was established by The King’s Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund, will support partnership-working between the […]
Last month, our CEO Clare Wightman joined a roundtable of national speakers to consider how the NHS and communities can join forces and to also discuss how NHS England’s new statutory guidance on partnership working with people and communities will seek to improve services. For us, the discussion cuts across many of our projects but […]
At Grapevine we’ve been helping people and communities work together to solve their problems for over 25 years. We know what can happen when local citizens have the skills and confidence to act on what they care about, when they connect through their shared humanity and take power into their own hands to transform their […]
Grapevine’s work with residents, the voluntary and community sector, and public sector on improving population health in Willenhall has revealed a shared desire to build on existing community spirit to help even more locals with their health and wellbeing. In common with other Coventry neighbourhoods, Willenhall has many existing small but dedicated community groups, organisations […]
People living in Willenhall are working alongside Grapevine community organisers to build their collective power as they campaign for improved park and play facilities in their Coventry neighbourhood. Through a series of community focus groups at the tail end of 2023, the ‘Willenhall Coalition’ was able to identify which community priority it needed to tackle […]
Today is Time To Talk Day by the charity Mind, where we highlight the importance of having conversations about our mental health. We’re focusing today on our Healthy Communities Together (HCT) programme in Coventry – a partnership in the Willenhall neighbourhood between the voluntary and community sector, the NHS and Coventry City Council to improve […]
This week’s #TeamTalk post welcomes Janet Doran to the team. Janet is our new programme manager for the Healthy Communities Together partnership in Coventry. She joins us at Grapevine following a 26-year career in local goverment followed by experience in the voluntary sector and two years spent working in primary care. Here she answers our […]
This week we’re offering up not one but two interviews with new starters at Grapevine, Edwin Lukong and Lynn Donovan. They began work on two of Grapevine’s three strands of action a few weeks ago now – here are their ideas for their new roles and previous experience in Coventry and other countries around the […]
This week we’re focusing on improving the health and wellbeing of our communities in Coventry through our exploratory work in the Willenhall neighbourhood. Coventry is one of six areas nationally that form the Healthy Communities Together programme – established by The King’s Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund in 2021 to improve the health […]