Twenty community development leaders from across the public and community sectors (10 from CHEX and 10 from CDHN) participated in the learning exchange in Belfast in December 2025. 

The Belfast visit included a Policy Round Table event with senior leaders and decision makers from across the community, voluntary, public and academic sectors in Northern Ireland. 

These events enabled us to explore the programme objectives and identify common themes and share learning, skills and experiences which were used to inform the agenda for the Policy Round Table in Glasgow. 

The busiest event of the programme in Glasgow was the policy round table, where the project team were joined by 30 representatives from CHEX strategic partners across sectors.

• Community sector

• Local and national third sector

• National and territorial NHS Boards
  Local authorities

• Scottish Government

• World Health Organisation and academia. 

Attendees were welcomex by the CHEX team and heard from two speakers as part of the day.

Professor Rachel Baker, Glasgow Caledonian University explored the role community-led organisations play in impacting the health and wellbeing of people in disadvantaged areas, and presented on emerging findings from Common Health Assets Research Project.

Dionne Mackison, Head of Place, Environment and Health Harms, Public Health Scotland set out the current policy context around prevention, the Population Health Framework, and Public Health Scotland’s Together We Can: Public Health Scotland Strategy

Following these inputs, external facilitator, Paddy McKenna, invited the groups to discuss and consider the future and imagine ourselves in 2046: