Case studies

A community champions project set up to enhance COVID-19 vaccine uptake has been re-purposed to work on projects to tackle health inequalities. Men’s health is one of the priorities with plans for health workshops in the community and other workstreams for the homeless and on nutrition will also benefit men.

Wakefield is taking part in the Sport England and Football Foundation’s Active Through Football scheme. There are a range of different activities run in deprived areas of district, including a number specifically targeting men. This also includes a 10-week fitness and lifestyle programme aimed at inactive over 30-year-olds and a initiatives aimed at older people.

Funding has been provided to a grassroots charity to run a project aimed at supporting men’s mental health. Hikes and sports sessions are combined with talking therapy-based work. More than 200 men are now involved after scheme launched less than 18 months ago.

Devon County Council (DCC) set a net zero target by 2030 and is implementing a carbon reduction plan to reduce its emissions by 70%. This leaves about 112,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) to offset at 2030/31 and beyond.

Richmond and Wandsworth councils have used the Low Income Family Tracker (LIFT) to identify households who may be eligible for different benefits, but not claiming them.

Family Mentors are a highly trained paid peer workforce that deliver the Small Steps at Home manualised evidence-based programme of child development and preventative health support to parents of 0- to four-year-olds.

Qualitative researchers in Wirral Council’s Public Health team have been using ethnography to see and hear how residents are affected by fuel poverty, including those that may be hidden from the national statistics on fuel poverty.

Furniture poverty is the inability to access, or afford to buy or maintain, any household furniture or appliance item that is essential for a socially acceptable standard of living. At least 26 per cent of social housing tenants live in furniture poverty - yet only 2 per cent of social homes are let as furnished.

The Future Female Leaders Programme supports and empowers women above the age of 18 from ethnically diverse communities in and around London to overcome social, educational and economic barriers to diversify and create more coaches and leaders in the sport, health and physical activity sector.

A free 10-week Active Menopause Programme in North West Leicestershire, to support women who are going through perimenopause or menopause and to help them become more physically active.