In this blog for CHEX, Ally Boyle MBE, Chair of Public Health Scotland, outlines the importance of context, connection, and culture for good governance – and why these principles are crucial if we’re to support community-led approaches to tackling the big issues facing Scotland’s health.
Read MoreNewly published evidence shows the clear impact that community-led health organisations have on the health and wellbeing of their communities.
Read MoreAndrew from CHEX recently attended two creative and inspiring community research events in Inverness and Moray. In this Out and About article, he shares some of the things he found particularly inspiring or thought provoking.
Read MoreWe are excited to announce our conference for 2026 will be on 26th February!
Read MoreIf you have experience of what it takes to undertake cross-sector collaborative work with local communities, we'd love to hear from you!
Read MoreEarlier in the year Sarah from the CHEX team met with youth workers and volunteers Kirsty, Tony, Ciara and Kayley from Castlemilk Youth Complex and learned about the impressive range of youth and community led health and wellbeing work undertaken by the Complex with local partners.
Read MoreSCDC/CHEX responded to Public Health Scotland’s consultation to support the development of their new strategy for 2025-2035.
Read MoreThis blog by Emilie McSwiggan, PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, explores the relevance of understanding ‘places and communities’ for social prescribing, and how this has been reflected in social prescribing research so far.
Read MorePublished jointly by Edinburgh Community Health Forum, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE), SCDC & CHEX, and Voluntary Health Scotland, this joint statement comes as major policies and frameworks have set out prevention as a key approach to how public services should operate.
Read MoreEarlier in the year Sarah met with Terry, Volunteer Co-ordinator at the Tannahill Centre in Ferguslie Park in Paisley. The Tannahill Centre is a community hub, which acts as the area’s community anchor organisation.
Read MoreOver the summer, Sarah caught up with Steph, the Outreach Lead for the Corner in Dundee. One of our workshops leads at the CHEX Conference earlier in the year, the Corner are a health and wellbeing service for young people in Dundee.
Read MoreGrace (Group Recovery Aftercare Community Enterprise) are a local peer-led membership organisation, providing recovery after-care for people who have experienced life traumas such as bereavement, ill health, loneliness, social isolation, mental health issues amongst others.
Read MoreIn this article, Ruth Glassborow, Director of Place and Wellbeing, Public Health Scotland shares her reflections following the CHEX Conference 2025 held in Stirling. Ruth acted as a ‘keynote listener’ during the day, hearing from conference attendees about carrying out their work supporting communities across Scotland.
Read MoreCHEX were invited by Public Health Scotland, Greenspace Scotland and Nature Scot to contribute to a cross sectoral workshop in June to share the knowledge, skills and experience from our Network in the development of Green Health in Scotland.
Read MoreCHEX was pleased to be asked along to present at the March 2025 East Kilbride & Strathaven Community Learning and Development Local Action Planning Group meeting in East Kilbride.
Read MoreFarmstrong Scotland is a new rural wellbeing programme for the farming and crofting sector. Following their participation at the CHEX Ideas Clinic Sarah met their community engagement specialist, Clare, to find out more about their work.
Read MoreA key part of our role at CHEX is influencing national policy and practice on community led health and community development approaches to tackling health inequalities.
Read MoreThis year for our national conference our focus was turning knowledge and learning into action on the most pressing issues facing our communities.
Read MoreSarah was recently invited to provide an input on CHEX and community development approaches to tackling health inequalities at a Conference held in February by the Glasgow University General Practice Society in Ferguslie Park, Paisley.
Read MoreThe report outlines key findings and is being used to inform the policy development on the future fees for Disclosure Scotland services.
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