WELLBEING REGENERATION

Making You Smile ...

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Gill Webber MSc Executive Director

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Presentation overview …..

� What led to the

development of

Wellbeing Regeneration?

– Concept and Why?

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– Concept and Why?

– A Description

– Achievements to Date

– Key Milestones

� What services are

currently delivered?

– How are they funded?

� What difference does

being a social enterprise

make?

The Development of Wellbeing Regeneration

� The Concept

– Healthy Living

Centre/Business

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Centre/Business

Experience

– Research:

MSc Community

Regeneration

– Identified Gaps in

Provision … but also …

Evidenced Common

Sense!

The Development of Wellbeing Regeneration

� But Why?

– A ‘magic’ recipe

– Need

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– Need

� affordable ‘low level’ simple interventions to prevent ill-health/improve quality of life

� services that complement existing

� available close to people’s homes

– Passionate to make a

difference!

The Development of Wellbeing Regeneration

� The Directors

– Shared ethos,

complementary

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complementary

backgrounds

– Pooled skills,

experience,

networks

– Experience across

different/all sectors

Wellbeing Regeneration– what we are

� A company limited by guarantee

– A ‘third sector’ (voluntary) ‘not-for-profit’ organisation – a social enterpriseorganisation – a social enterprise

– Established 2008

� 6,000+ service-users in

Carmarthenshire in this last year

– 3,500+ regular service-users

– 28 different community clinics – soon to be 32 … and growing …

– 20,000 projected service-users in this next financial year

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Wellbeing RegenerationAims

� To improve quality of life

– Preventing ill-health

– Improving wellbeing– Improving wellbeing

– Promoting independence/supporting ‘self-care’

– Reducing social isolation

� To work with partners to ‘fill the gaps’ in

provision

� To ‘make people smile’

– professional but informal approach

– caring, friendly, sociable team

– safe, supportive, fun environment7

The Development of Wellbeing Regeneration

� Key components

– Networking/

joint-working

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joint-working

(complementing not

duplicating)

– Excellence

� Continual improvement

� Customer/stakeholder satisfaction

� Respect/trust

– Core funding/cash flow

The Development of Wellbeing Regeneration

� Key components

– Creativity, flexibility,

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– Creativity, flexibility,

passion, belief, energy

– Communication/

approach

– In-kind support/

Volunteers

Key Milestones

� MSc: Community Regeneration

� Social Foot Care

– Tender/Model/A Catalyst

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– Tender/Model/A Catalyst

– Reducing Complaints

– NHS Savings/Effectiveness

– Ill-health (and Falls) Prevention

– Maintaining Independence

– Self-Care

– Rural Expansion

� Town Centre Relocation

Key Milestones (cont.)

� Future Jobs Fund

– Arts /Activities

Therapy

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Therapy

– Phlebotomy

– Administration

– Promotion

� Move to out-of-town

HQ

� Community Health

Council Membership

Key Milestones (cont.)

� Staff Empowerment

– Accredited and non-accredited training

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– Mentoring

– ‘Women Making a Difference’ Programme

� Quality Standards

– Models of Best Practice� Knowledge Based

Management

– ‘Doing Well, Doing Better’

– Investors in People

Delivery Programmes- what we do

High quality, affordable, ‘low level’ interventions:

� Foot Care (incl. shoe sizing & shoes)� Foot Care (incl. shoe sizing & shoes)

� Blood Tests

� Complementary Therapies

� Lifestyle Improvement Support

� Activities – Crafts, Social, Exercise, Learning

� Information, Advice, Signposting

� Welfare Benefit Support

� Training

� Consultancy13

How are we funded?

� Service Level Agreements with LHB and LA

� Grants to ‘pump prime’ new developmentGrants to ‘pump prime’ new development

� Charges for services

� Fundraising initiatives

� Donations

� In-kind Support

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What difference does a social enterprise make?

� Provide ‘added value’

� Work at the heart of communities so better understand their needs and wishes

Access additional funding streams and resources� Access additional funding streams and resources

� More flexible and resourceful ways of working

� Preventing ill-health, saving the NHS considerable monies

� Joint-working creates happier patients

� Used to managing quality services on a very tight budget

� Flexibility enables creative thinking

� Wider networks, experience and skills

� Common sense, simplistic and creative approaches15

How we can potentially help you ...

� Provide services to your patients on our sites or in their homes

� Be your eyes and ears and signpost� Be your eyes and ears and signpost

� Provide more ‘low level’ health interventions; eg weight management, smoking cessation, non-invasive health checks; emotional health services

� Gathering/distributing information

� Referrals (two-way)

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To summarise …

� We are experts and have robust infrastructures and sound business cases – otherwise we would not have SLAs or receive grant funding

� Working in the third sector is a profession and a vocation – we are serious about what we do and are dedicated to helping people; serious about what we do and are dedicated to helping people; therefore we do the best we possibly can with the resources we have

� We are not the cheap option but a different, more proactive option and can and will ‘add considerable value’ to services. We are at the front end of prevention and ‘self-care’, do not work ‘in silos’, thwart unnecessary NHS spending (due to ‘reactive’ health care and time spent dealing with complaints). We are therefore worth working in partnership with and investing in and need ‘full cost recovery’/core funding and realistic financing in order to run and sustain services to the standards you require in order to help you and achieve results that surpass all expectations!17

Suggestions to ponder …

� Invite us to present/hold workshops at your summer schools or other training events

� What ‘low level’ interventions can you identify that � What ‘low level’ interventions can you identify that we could help you with that have not already been described?

� We are not restricted to working in Carmarthenshire or with specific age groups or communities of interest – our proven model can be delivered elsewhere and can be tailored to meet your local needs

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Making you smile! …

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☺☺☺☺Thank you

Any questions ... ?

Contact Details …..

Gill WebberWellbeing Regeneration Limited

Unit 3, Llanelli Gate Business Park, Dafen, Llanelli, SA14 8LQ

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Unit 3, Llanelli Gate Business Park, Dafen, Llanelli, SA14 8LQ

Tel: 01554 744896

Email: gwebber@wellbeingregeneration.org.uk

Website: www.wellbeingregeneration.org.uk

Company Registration Number: 06508443