A New Year can be seen as a fresh start and an opportunity to commit to healthier habits. The top three New Year’s resolutions in the UK last year were 1) increasing exercise, 2) improving diet, and 3) losing weight[1]. Improving health and wellbeing is a worthwhile goal, however, at New Year, there is a…

Well Doncaster and Be Well say goodbye to Elisa, Abu, James and Marilyn as they move on to pastures new. The team would like to thank them for all their hard work and wish them good luck in their next adventures. We also welcome new faces to the team as we fill these roles and…

We are excited to share with you our 2021-22 Annual Report Well Doncaster has been the leader in using community centred approaches as the starting point in approaching local challenges and opportunities and know that embedding assets based approaches in the way we work with individuals, families and communities is crucial to the achievement Team…

Read more about what Be Well Doncaster has been doing in 2021-2022 Be Well Doncaster provides person-centred, one to one behaviour change support through nine trained Health and Wellbeing Coaches across the borough. The approach utilises motivational interviewing techniques and evidence based behaviour change tools to provide a person-centred approach to identify and address the…

Team Doncaster continues in its move towards working with local people and communities (localityworking) and embedding community centred approaches in the way it works with communities acrossthe borough to address inequalities and improve the health and wellbeing of its residents. By embedding community centred approaches, Team Doncaster seeks to challenge traditional, ‘old’ ideas of health…

Back in 2020, there were only 5 members of the Well Doncaster team working across the borough. Fast forward to two years and February 2022 now sees 21 members of the Well Doncaster team using community centred approaches to strengthening our communities and helping to reduce health and wealth inequalities in Doncaster. Most recently, we…

What is an Appreciative Inquiry? A four staged evidenced based community centred approach that gathers positive insight and works with the community to co-design and co-deliver action plans. What does it look like in practice? Discovery: Strength based conversations with residents focusing on gathering positive insight about their community which undergoes a thematic analysis to…

As we are coming to the end of 2021 we thought we would take this opportunity to update you on Be Well Doncaster, have a look at what the programme has achieved over the past year and what we have in store for 2022. Be Well Doncaster is a Health and Wellbeing service available to…