Health and wellbeing UK

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of UK community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism to enhance the Health and wellbeing of their communities. Learn how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations.

• Network of Wellbeing
• Walking for Health describes itself as "England's largest network of health walks with over 360 active walking schemes, helping people across the country lead a more active lifestyle... improving the mental and physical well-being of thousands of people." / Walking for Health

Organisations working with communities

• People's Health Trust, charity addressing health inequalities in England, Scotland and Wales. Website includes "A community manifesto for health justice". Video: People's Health Trust on youtube.com. added 14:33, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
• Compassionate Communities UK

Find your Feel Good in the Forest, Supporting the nation’s health

Authors: Forestry England, Mar 9, 2023

A Community-Powered NHS

Authors: New Local, 1.12 mins.

Date: 2022-10-04

Happiness Challenge - Part 1: Can we learn to be happier?

Authors: Action for Happiness, 3.37 mins.

Date: 2011-02-03

• Right to Know, Learn about the systemic and environmental trends that could be impacting your health. right-to-know.org, enter your postcode for local results, added 10:26, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
• Centre for Thriving Places, added 16:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
• Community Wellbeing Index. Enter your post code to get an index for your community, communitywellbeing.coop.co.uk

• Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, "Since 2008 the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare has engaged healthcare professionals, patients and the wider community to understand the connections between health and environment and reduce healthcare’s resource footprint." added 16:50, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
• Centre for Ageing Better, independent charitable foundation
• Resources from the UK Healthy Cities Network
• Sustainable development: The key to tackling health inequalities, Sustainable Development Commission, 2010
• Covid 19: Find your local group, covidmutualaid.org added 14:17, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
• NHS Sustainable Development Unit
• planetary health emergency, sustainablehealthcare.org.uk

Research

• Centric Lab, added 10:12, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Apps for sustainability

• Splashpath, find your local swimming pools

Maggie's Manchester, Foster and Partners

Authors: Maggie's, Mar 14, 2023

Feel Good in the Forest, forestryengland.uk, supportive programme of activities for people with mild-to-moderate health conditions, or who are looking to improve their health and wellbeing through activities like walking, yoga and cycling in the forest, to meet new people and enjoy being outdoors. People can self-refer or be referred. added 17:33, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

The Conservation Volunteers' Green Gym programme aims to provide people with a way to enhance their fitness and health while taking action to improve the outdoor environment. It can be seen as enabling people to get fit who would not normally attend a conventional gym or sports centre. ^W

• The Planetary Emergency: What is it and how to take action, from the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

• "Would better buildings help fix the NHS? The story of Britain’s hospitals, from grand designs to counting the costs", theconversation.com, June 27, 2023

Don't Tell Me to Just Breathe (full video)

Authors: Don't Tell Me To Just Breathe, 6.33 mins.

Date: 2022-10-10

Relationships: the missing piece of the wellbeing puzzle

Authors: ukmentalhealth, 2.00 mins.

Date: 2016-09-05

From Wikipedia:Ella's law

Ella's Law is the informal name given to a British environmental campaign seeking reform of air pollution legislation in the United Kingdom. The campaign advocates the introduction of the proposed Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill, which is intended to establish a legal right to breathe clean air in England. The proposed legislation is named after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, a nine-year-old girl whose death from asthma in 2013 was found by a coroner to have been contributed to by exposure to excessive air pollution. She became the first person in the United Kingdom to have air pollution recorded as a medical cause of death.

Versions of the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill have been introduced in the House of Lords and House of Commons by Green parliamentarians including Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, Caroline Lucas and Siân Berry. The most advanced version completed its stages in the House of Lords in December 2022 but did not complete its passage through the Commons. A further version was introduced by Berry in July 2025, but made no further progress following the end of the 2024–2026 parliamentary session.

The proposals have received cross-party parliamentary support as well as backing from the London Assembly, the Mayor of London, health organisations and environmental campaign groups. The UK Government has supported the objective of reducing air pollution but has previously argued that separate clean-air human-rights legislation is unnecessary.

• Ella's law, ellaroberta.org