Live Well in Tameside

What is next for Live Well in Tameside? 

Building on the momentum and learning of the Accelerator programme, we are now part of the Live Well Implementation Programme. 

Each local authority area in Greater Manchester has received investment to implement the Live Well programme to include: 

• The establishment of Live Well centres, spaces and offers

• The integration of support through an optimum neighbourhood model

• The development of a resilient VCFSE sector and an accelerated shift to a ‘culture of prevention’ across our system. 

The following slides talk through the opportunities we have to grow Live Well in Tameside, and ensure it remains community-led and system enabled.

Live Well Tameside Implementation by Action Together

Do you have a story to tell about the way your group or organisation has improved the life of a local person or your community? 

Stories have the power to connect and create change, and we want to capture and showcase many more of the Live Well stories. We will be using a range of different storytelling techniques and methodologies to have the biggest impact. Through these stories we will continue to gather outcomes which showcase the role the VCFSE sector plays as a key partner in prevention.

Watch our videos which bring each principle to life and shows what community-led prevention looks like in Tameside:

• One life at a time
• We are trusted
• We are open spaces
• We are peers and facilitators
• We are the trusted voice
• We offer positivity and hope
• We are our communities

Each story is an example of Tameside’s community-led principles in action and have been co-produced by the Voluntary Sector. 

Special thanks to Bloom at LEAP, Dipak Dristi, Johnny Barlow Theatre Company, The Shed Tameside, The Anthony Seddon Fund, St Gabriel’s Place of Welcome, Hearts & Minds, the VCFSE groups in Tameside and Made by Mortals who produced these videos.

In 2023, with generous support from Greater Manchester Combined Authority, NHS GM, The National Lottery Community Fund, and the Innovation Unit, the Live Well programme was launched, enabling five accelerator sites to lead work to tackle persistent barriers to Live Well. Tameside is one of the Accelerator Sites, and we have been part of a growing movement for community-led health and wellbeing, connecting and amplifying existing, brilliant support in GM’s communities.

In Tameside, we have focussed on: "How might we use new and shared outcomes to demonstrate the role of Live Well activity in prevention?" We used storytelling to showcase the difference that community level interventions have on people's’ lives and working with the system to sustain, grow and support this.

Watch Live Well Stories here

Live Well Tameside Accelerator Programme by Action Together