Well-Being Department

West Cornwall Healthy Living Centre
West Cornwall Healthy Living Centre is a merger of Penwith Healthy Living Network and Kerrier Healthy Living Centre. Penwith Community Development Trust is the lead organisation and ‘accountable body’ for the WCHLC, working in partnership with other 3 key and formal partners (Kerrier District Council, Cornwall Centre for Volunteers and Penwith Volunteer Bureau), employing a project team of 6 part-time staff working in three different locations across West Cornwall to deliver the following activities/schemes to improve the health and well-being for local people:

• GP Recommendation Scheme
  
• WCHLC Database/Website
  
• Volunteer Recruitment Scheme
  
• Well-being Activities
  

For the past two and half years, WCHLC has proved to be very successful at linking GPs, health professionals, voluntary and community groups/organisations and individuals together to improve health and well-being and reduce health inequality across West Cornwall. Currently, WCHLC is working in partnership with other Healthy Living Centres within the South West Healthy Living Alliance to deliver the £3.96 millions regional well-being project funded by the Big Lottery Fund. It is planned that this regional project will start in January 2008.
Senior Volunteers Scheme for Older People
This project aims to tackle isolation and increase social interaction by promoting volunteering activities and opportunities for older people and connecting volunteers and the elderly people together through a wide range of supporting services in Penwith.

Visit the WCHLC website at www.wchlc.org.uk

Our staff team:
West Cornwall Healthy Living Centre: Dilys Down, Clive Harrold, Patti Evans, Ray Ashmore, Marilyn Tenbeth and Judy Thomas
Senior Volunteer for Older People: Alison Richardson