Wellbeing Matters
Funded through The National Lottery Community Fund.
This 3 years project is about reducing isolation and improving physical and mental health, through increasing the availability of local activities and providing co-ordination needed to ensure people can be reached. This is primarily for people of South Asian heritage aged 50+ but will be inclusive to adults and young people of any culture because it may support cohesion and many have needs that the project can meet.
Many older adults across Slough and Maidenhead feel isolated. Those often facing significant barriers to integration are people of BME origin because of religion, language, feeling like a minority, and a need to socialise and exercise in restricted groups.
The project will involve other groups and stakeholders who share common objectives and complement what we’ll do – so that each provider can recommend participants to other activities. The project will enable each provider to continue reaching current beneficiaries but also reach those people that stakeholders have been unable to connect with because of resources, insufficient/fragmented network or distance.
