Scottish Communities for Health and Wellbeing is dedicated to promoting and delivering health improvements and reducing health inequalities in many of Scotland’s communities in most need.
Read MoreThe Community Wellbeing Exchange gives community organisations access to up to £1000 for mental health activities provided by social enterprises
Read MoreCHEX is inviting any network members with a social enterprise element to their work to apply to have their services added to a programme of activities around mental health which will be on offer as part of this year’s Community Wellbeing Exchange.
Read MoreThe CHEX annual conference is a chance to come together to explore the key issues for community-led health in Scotland.
Read MoreThe Community Wellbeing Exchange gives community organisations access to £1000 for mental health activities provided by social enterprises
Read MoreEarlier this year, CHEX submitted a response to the Scottish Parliament Inquiry into Health Inequalities. We thought we’d summarise the key points we made in our submission.
Read MoreThe Scottish Government and NHS Assure have developed a draft Climate Emergency and Sustainability Strategy 2022 to 2026 for NHS Scotland. A consultation on the draft is open until the 10th March 2022.
Read MoreCHEX is helping People’s Health Trust with a survey to gather views on the state of mental health within the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS). The results will be part of a People’s Health Trust-led campaign to ask the government to recognise and address the mental health of VCS workers.
Read MoreThe Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport committee have published a survey for people to give their experiences of alternative pathways to primary care, which could include,among other things, many community-led health activities and anything termed social prescribing.
Read MoreNear Me is NHS Scotland’s free online video consulting service for health and care. Community organisations can use it in their work and may also want to help raise awareness of it among their community.
Read MoreSENScot, SCHW and CHEX are inviting expressions of interest in this programme which will enable 20 community organisations across Scotland to purchase a wide range of mental health & wellbeing focused activities and services supplied by social enterprises and third sector organisations.
Read MoreCHEX recently submitted our response to the Scottish Government’s National Care Service consultation. We’ve summarised our response to what was a very detailed consultation document, which should hopefully get across the key points without making you have to read through the whole thing.
Read MoreA new report shows how giving community organisations small pots of funding to buy in mental health focused activities and services from social enterprises can make a real difference to the health of people, workers and local organisations.
Read MoreCHEX is preparing to develop a submission to the Scottish Government’s National Care Service consultation and we’d like to invite our network to help shape our response.
Read MoreA free See Me online workshop for community-led health organisations in the CHEX network. The workshop will take place on Thursday 3rd June 2021, 10:30am-12:00pm, and is based on See Me’s suite of practical mental health inclusion resources for tackling stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings.
Read MoreA research report from Nesta, Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s ihub and Outside the Box has explored the role of commnity organisations in supporting people’s health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic. It also asks what insights and learning can help understand how to sustain, strengthen and grow community organisations’ role in supporting people’s health and wellbeing in the longer term.
Read MoreOn Thursday 14th January 2021, CHEX is running a participative online workshop on the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act for community-led health organisations and the wider community sector across Scotland.
Read MoreCHEX is inviting any network members with a social enterprise element to their work to apply to have their services added to a programme of activities around mental health which will be on offer as part of the Pockets and Prospects pilot starting in November 2020.
Read MoreJoin us on Thursday 3rd December to give your views about a new human rights law in Scotland.
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