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Social capital: What Works Wellbeing – Evidence review and synthesis
The What Works Centre for Wellbeing (WWCW) has commissioned the Centre for Thriving Places to conduct a Rapid Review of evaluations of social capital interventions aimed at children, young people and adults, and delivered within the UK and across OECD countries. The project is funded […]
Groundswell: COVID-19 info leaflet for people experiencing homelessness
Groundswell have launched a new COVID-19 information leaflet for people experiencing homelessness. It contains up-to-date guidance on the current situation and how we can all continue to stay safe, as well as advice from Groundswell’s peers with lived experience of homelessness. It is in double-sided […]
APPG for Ending Homelessness launches inquiry into progress towards Government rough sleeping target
The APPG for Ending Homelessness (APPGEH) will be holding an inquiry into the Government’s progress towards its welcome manifesto commitment to ‘end the blight of rough sleeping by the end of the next Parliament’ in 2024. As part of their inquiry, the APPGEH is calling […]
Association of Mental Health Providers: Lived Experience Advisory Group
The Association of Mental Health Providers, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are looking for people to join their Lived Experience Advisory Group. They would like people with living/learnt experience of poor mental health and illness, including SMI, or an unpaid carer, who […]
The Lowdown on the COVID-19 vaccine, periods and fertility
The Lowdown and NHS England have produced a guide and held a webinar on the COVID-19 vaccine and fertility. The Lowdown teamed up with NHS colleagues to host an online chat with Reproductive Immunologist Dr Viki Male, and Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Dr Fatima Husain, to discuss the […]
Green Social Prescribing Conference: How to Embed and Scale Green Social Prescribing
The cross government Green Social Prescribing Programme team are hosting the ‘Green Social Prescribing Conference: How to Embed and Scale Green Social Prescribing’. It has been one year since the launch of the green social prescribing programme to prevent and tackle mental ill-health and they […]