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Your Health Your Community Your Vote - The Results

 

Thornhill residents flocked to the Your Health Your Community Your Vote event, to decide how to spend £50,000 on health and wellbeing projects. The event, which was one of the first of its kind in the UK, specifically relating to health and wellbeing, enabled residents to hold the purse stings for a day and decide which projects they would most benefit from, and ultimately which ones would make a difference to the health and wellbeing of the community.

 

Each year the Thornhill Community Health Group, made up of local residents and agency representatives from the PCT, Southampton City Council and Thornhill Plus You, allocate a pot of funding to pay for small projects which aim to improve the health and wellbeing of the local community. This year the group invited Thornhill residents to decide how the money should be spent.

 

The group received applications from 18 projects, totaling over £100,000 in funding. With only £50,000 up for grabs, each project had just three minutes to pitch their ideas to secure the votes of the public. Ten of the 18 projects secured funding; they included:

Project

Funding £

Thornhill Crafty Crafters

The money will help the group who work with many disabled residents to cover basic costs and purchase specialist materials and equipment.

2,000

Anti-bullying Programme (YMCA)

The project can now provide a school and community based anti-bullying programme focussing on children aged 9-12. This will involve an awareness raising campaign in the form of a road show in local schools and provide a Key Worker for Thornhill to support up to 60 vulnerable children. This will include one to one support for victims of bullying as well as bullies.

5,000

Our Lives, Our Health, Improving our Life Chances (SCIL)

The group will provide a peer-led service for disabled people in Thornhill that would include activities such as keep fit, swimming, outdoor activities, general health promotion, advocacy, promotional materials, signposting and general support to access services.

5,853

Summer Fun! (Motiv8 Thornhill)

The team now have funding to continue their successful ‘Yellow Leaflet' which contains hundreds of activities and events for young people during the school term breaks.

1,423

Looking out for me (No Limits!)

A project called ‘looking out for me' will now be able to run specifically in Thornhill and will work with up to 10 young people over six weeks at local youth centres, encouraging young people to work towards an accredited qualification. The programme will focus on health issues such as teenage pregnancy, sexual health, substance misuse.

3,600

Water Walkers (Thornhill Young Advisors)

The young people were awarded funding to purchase ‘water walkers'; giant hamster balls that people of all ages can climb into and race across a swimming pool.

1,345

Health Kicks

Funding will go towards setting up a SFC supported male health project in Thornhill, including a ‘Saints Thornhill' football team and linking with local organisations concerned with health promotion.

5,000

Street Sport (Southampton City Council Parks Project)

The Street Sport programme will provide non-structured activities in a range of settings where young people congregate. It will offer 8 sessions per week in Thornhill, including activities such as BMX/skateboarding, street football, cricket, volleyball, table tennis. Activities will run on weekday evenings and will be flexible according to young people's needs.

8,650

Eyes on Thornhill (Action for Blind People)

The project will raise awareness of the risks of being affected by the major causes of blindness and the preventative steps people can take, by creating promotional materials, forming a local advisory group and carrying out outreach work around Thornhill. The project will also provide practical support for people who are visually impaired, by advocating on a range of issues such as making benefits claims.

8,000

The Star Project

The project will run sexual health and relationship workshops in Hightown Primary School , Kanes Hill Primary Schools and Woodlands Community College for years 5, 6, 7 and 8 pupils. Previous work in the Thornhill schools has been received very positively.

                                                   9,129

 

If you would like to know more about the Your Health Your Community Your Vote event, or the Thornhill Community Health Group please contact Paula Windebank on 023 8091 5402 or email pwindebank@thornhillplusyou.co.uk.

 

 

 
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