Grace (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 new briefing, explore the contribution of community-led health organisations and approaches to growing positive mental health and wellbeing at a time when mental health services are struggling to meet demand.
Read MoreThis article from Julie Fox explores her significant contribution to community-led health and the development of Annexe Communities in Partick as she begins her retirement. Everyone here at CHEX would like to say a hearty congratulations on all of her work, and best wishes for the future.
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 MoreIn this blog, Roisin Hurst Scottish Community Link Worker Network Project Manager explores the vital role community link workers play as essential connectors between primary care, patients, and communities.
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 MoreOn 12th March, more than 80 people from across the CHEX network came together in Stirling to learn and reflect about their work supporting their communities and tackling Scotland's health inequalities.
Read MoreOur resource hub is a one-stop shop for useful materials, including explainers on key topics, helpful infographics, and signposts to relevant policy, research and online tools.
Read MoreIn this blog, David Walsh and Gerry McCartney discuss the disastrous effects that austerity policies have had on life expectancy - exacerbating health inequalities and causing many people in our most vulnerable communities to lead shorter, less healthy lives.
Read MoreThe report outlines key findings and is being used to inform the policy development on the future fees for Disclosure Scotland services.
Read MoreIt 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.
Read MoreKeeping 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.
Read MoreIn this blog, Sarah Boath, Head of Programme for CHEX reflects on the challenging funding landscape, discussing the need to think of health and wellbeing services not as short-term projects to fund with money in a budget, but as a long-term investment of resources, time, skill and commitment.
Read MoreFair 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.
Read MoreWe’re excited to announce that we’ll holding the first CHEX ideas clinic online event from 10am - 12pm on 5th December.
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