Farmstrong 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.  

A 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.   

This year for our national conference our focus was turning knowledge and learning into action on the most pressing issues facing our communities.

Sarah 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. 

The report outlines key findings and is being used to inform the policy development on the future fees for Disclosure Scotland services.

It was great to see so many people at our first ideas clinic online event! We had some great discussion and useful information- sharing, as well as making a space for people to access peer support from others in our sector.

Keeping up to date with what community led health organisations and practitioners are doing to improve people’s health and wellbeing is an important part of the job for the CHEX team. 

One way that we are doing this is linking in with local and regional health and wellbeing networks across the country.

Fair and efficient funding and resourcing is an ongoing issue facing the community-led health sector and this policy response is part of the ongoing work of the CHEX team influencing policy in this area.

We’re excited to announce that we’ll holding the first CHEX ideas clinic online event from 10am - 12pm on 5th December.

The CHEX team out and about: Sarah was in Edinburgh, meeting with Michelle from LGBT Health and Wellbeing at their offices in Leith.

The first issue of Snippets was published around 2003 which means we've been bringing you the latest community-led health happenings for more than 20 years!

We've been working hard over the last few months to collate and create some new community-led health resources, which we hope will provide useful and relevant information to help support the CHEX network and other people working in and around community-led health.

Join us for the launch event of our newly revamped and updated Health Issues In the Community course for young people.

Have your say: contribute to the SCDC and CHEX response to the Scottish Government’s call for views on third sector funding.

The CHEX team out and about: Sarah was in Dundee, meeting with Wendy and her team from Wellbeing Works.