This page presents a summary of how we developed Phase 1 of the Well London bid.

• Download the Bid Strategy [109kb, MS Word] for more detail on the needs assessment and bid outcomes.
• LHC Newsflash - It could be London!
  

• poor diet,
• lack of physical activity and
• poor mental well-being,

Action will focus on five themes:

• Food Poverty,
• Green Spaces,
• Mental Well-being,
• Children and Young People,
• Culture and Tradition.

Well London will target and work with communities 'in need' to create healthier lifestyles and improve their well-being. It will influence policy makers and practitioners, at local and regional level, into thinking and working with disadvantaged and excluded people and communities in different, more effective ways.

Our portfolio will be delivered by the Well London alliance, a coalition of the Greater London Authority (GLA), London Health Commission (LHC), Groundwork London, London Sustainability Exchange [LSx] and Central YMCA.

Our portfolio will deliver:·

• community-led projects, coordinated at the local level, which make real and sustainable gains in the health and well-being of our most disadvantaged communities and build their capacity to secure further gains;
• robust, evidence-based models and benchmarks that will influence policy and practice to secure real enhancements to well-being and reductions in health inequalities across all communities in our capital city and beyond.

Delivery structure:

The Well London portfolio will make big positive changes in communities most in need London. We will coordinate and target all of our portfolio activities, through our 5 themes, in 25 geographical communities and communities of interest at the very local level. In the second stage of the BLF bidding process (from November 2006) we will identify the specific target communities based on routine data describing deprivation and health indicators at the local community level and the extent and nature of existing activities.

We will also undertake intensive local community level consultation, current activity mapping and planning for the delivery of Well London at the local level. Within these communities, we will target our work at the most disadvantaged and excluded, including children, young people and their families, black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and older people.

We will also build the capacity of local organisations, including small, voluntary sector community organisations within our target areas to enable them to continue to work with the communities in different, more effective ways.

Rigorous evaluation and assimilation of learning from Well London will be used to influence policy makers and practitioners in London, and beyond, into thinking and working with disadvantaged and excluded communities in different, more effective ways and will thus benefit many more people and communities in need across London.

Bid Development

3 July
We have been consulting with London groups and organisations to get the bid right. Around 50 people came to City Hall on 3 July.

Gail Findlay, LHC Co-ordinator gave a presentation [115 kb, PDF] of the bid.

Adrian Renton, University of East London gave a presentation on how the boroughs were selected. [1,069 kb, PDF]

Delegate list.

We received a great deal of useful feedback [95 kb, PDF] on the bid. All of this has been fed in to the developing bid.

11 July LHC Community Development Summer Reception. Over 150 community groups, local and regional organisations met to discuss the bid in an informal setting. The Mayor of London opened the event.

• 13 July - Steering group meeting
• 13- 21 July Redrafting
• Sign-off process
• 28 July - submit to Big Lottery Fund

Contact us for further information.