About

Groundwork Northwest manages target: wellbeing on behalf of the North West Wellbeing Partnership.

The partnership includes:
The North West Public Health Team
Groundwork NW
NHS North West
North West Regional Development Agency
North West Public Health Networks
North West Physical Activity Taskforce
North West Food & Health Taskforce
National Institute for Mental Health
Health in England
North West Healthy Living Network
Age Concern
Sport England
North West Public Health Observatory
University of Central Lancashire
Voluntary Sector North West

Maggie Moody, Portfolio Manager
e: Maggie.moody@groundwork.org.uk
t: 0161 237 3200

Louise Robinson, Portfolio Officer
e: louise.robinson@groundwork.org.uk
t: 0161 237 3200

Rob Squires, Network Co-ordnator – Third Sector
e: rob.squires@groundwork.org.uk
t: 0161 237 3200

Nancy Brown, Network Co-ordinator – Public Health
e: nancy.brown@groundwork.org.uk
t: 0161 237 3200

Rhiannon Davies, Communications Officer
e: rhiannon.davies@groundwork.org.uk
t: 0161 237 3200

target: wellbeing’s Governance group is made up of representatives from key regional wellbeing stakeholders who oversee the strategic direction of the portfolio, act as advocates and provide support for scrutiny, management and evaluation.

target: wellbeing’s Governance Group includes:
Chair: Sue Henry - Associate Director of Engagement and Participation, Department of Health NW
Ian MacArthur - Regional Director, Groundwork NW
Andrew Darron - Marketing and Development Director, Groundwork Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford
Will Blandamer - Director of the GM Public Health Network, Association of Greater Manchester PCTs
Margaret McLeod - Sector Development Officer, Voluntary Sector North West
Malcolm Kennedy - Equality and Diversity Policy Manager (Health and VCS), North West Development Agency
Jude Stansfield - Senior Public Health Policy Advisor - Mental Health & Wellbeing, DH/ NHS North West

The Regional Support Network acts as a co-ordinating body for local and pan-regional activity, linking related activities within target: wellbeing and building capacity through a series of events, networking and rolling training and development programme.

All the learning and evidence that our projects create is shared across the portfolio, can be accessed in our resource library, as well as being available to organisations that are not funded by target: wellbeing. In this way the Regional Support Network will add to the capacity of the region as a whole in focusing on wellbeing issues.

So, target: wellbeing has a great potential to make a huge difference to wellbeing in some of the most deprived areas of the region and to boost learning and information exchange throughout the Northwest.

target: Wellbeing is funded through the Big Lottery Fund’s national well-being strand.

The Well-being programme aims to support the development of healthier lifestyles and to improve well-being.

Like target: wellbeing the programme focuses on three strands:
- mental health
- healthy eating
- physical activity

Other portfolios funded through the wellbeing strand include:
New Leaf, New Life
Chances For Change
The North West Healthy Living Network
Living Well West Midlands
Well London
The South West Wellbeing Programme
Food For Life
Time To change

Target: wellbeing’s Regional Support Network support our projects and other organisations delivering health outcomes across the North West, by building capacity through a series of events, networking and a training & development programme.

However, target: wellbeing is not an open grants programme and therefore we can not currently offer financial support to any organisations outside the existing portfolio.

The North West Public Health Observatory has been commissioned to undertake the impact evaluation of the target: wellbeing portfolio. This includes evaluating the impact of the activities on beneficiaries and the wider population, through identifying a core set of indicators and appropriate methodology for collecting this data.

Through this evaluation we will:
• Be clear on what we are trying to achieve
• Ensure target: wellbeing objectives are met
• Evaluate how well a network support approach to delivering activities in communities works and why
• Sustain the approach long term
• Influence service development based on evidence
• Demonstrate potential funders and commissioners, that there is real evidence of added value by delivering services through Voluntary and Community Sector Networks

The evaluation will show whether the programmes have engaged with people in local communities as well as whether this involvement is having any impact on changing people’s behaviour.

There is a need then to understand how these types of third sector approaches are effective in engaging with people and supporting them to make lifestyle changes, as well as to understand the ‘journey’ made by different types of beneficiary in accessing services.

Also the evaluation will support projects in providing evidence to achieve longer term funding after the Big Lottery funding ends.

The University of Central Lancashire has also been engaged for the process evaluation of target: wellbeing.