Community Wellbeing

We run a range of projects that support community wellbeing:

Action Together Community Teams - Community Focused, Community Based

Our Community Teams are based in venues across Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside every week. Drop in and speak to one of our team about:

  • Local volunteering
  • Funding for your ideas
  • Making connections in the community
  • Support for your community group
  • Community wellbeing

Find out when we're at a venue near you:

  • Oldham Community Team - Alexandra, Chadderton, Coldhurst, Crompton, Failsworth, Hollinwood, Medlock Vale, Royton, Saddleworth, Shaw, St Mary’s, St James, Waterhead and Werneth.
  • Rochdale Community Team - Rochdale, Heywood, Middleton and Pennines, which includes Littleborough.
  • Tameside Community Team - Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Dukinfield, Droylsden, Hyde, Longdendale, Mossley and Stalybridge.

Community Activities Directory

Our Community Activities Directory has details of hundreds of activities and social groups taking place every week in Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside.

Find out what's happening near you.


Healthwatch Oldham and Healthwatch Tameside

Healthwatch Oldham and Healthwatch Tameside are the health and social care consumer champions, supporting people to access the health and care support they need, to understand how health and care services are working for people and support people to make an NHS complaint when things haven't gone well. Click here to find out more about Healthwatch Oldham and Healthwatch Tameside.


Oldham Social Prescribing

Connecting you to community groups, activities and organisations that could support you to improve your health, wellbeing and social connections. Click here to find out more.


Tameside Community Wellbeing Programme

The Community Wellbeing programme aims to support people to improve their wellbeing and reduce pressure on NHS and social care services by:

  • Providing a Social Prescribing Service that links people with long term health conditions to Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise groups when their support need is not medical in nature,
  • Asset Based Community Development, working with local communities accross Tameside to identify people's priorities, and support them to make a difference in the place they live,
  • VCFSE Investment Programme; to support VCFSE groups to deliver activities and projects that cointribute to the elements of the Programme.

Click here to find out about Tameside's Community Wellbeing Programme.


Miles of Smiles

Our Tameside community transport scheme that helps people get to appointments that support their Wellbeing. Click here to find out out more about Miles of Smiles.