Impact 2025-26
Live Well Havering is a long-term vision of preventative health and wellbeing transformation for the borough.
This programme aims to shift the borough’s focus to prevention rather than cure, with the mission of driving better health outcomes for all, as well as less demand on statutory services, like Social Care.
The strategy prioritises working hand in hand with community services and the voluntary sector to co-produce local solutions with local people.
Impact from September 2025-26
The focus of the last year has been building upon the success of programme to create long-term, sustainable impact.
- £400k+ secured for Havering's voluntary sector
Thanks to the success of Havering's new, co-produced grant programme, we secured an addition £400k+ for this year's grant schemes. We have introduced The Thrive Fund, a grant programme for children and young people's mental health.
2. Creation and development of a new team of outreach workers, called Health Trainers, funded by Public Health.
The Live Well Havering team grew by 7 Health Trainers who deliver information, advice, signposting, blood pressure checks and more across Havering.
Since September 2025, they have:
- Attended 200+ community events
- Done 1700+ blood pressure checks
- Diverted 60+ people with severe hypertension into emergency support
- Given out 1700+ printed directories.
- Done 5000+ signposts into local support services.
3. Building upon the success of the Live Well Havering Network
This year we have offered even more networking opportunities to bring together partners for collaboration, including our monthly network meetings, well attended by 60+ partners each month, as well as in-person opportunities at Thames Chase Forest Centre.
4. Created and maintained community mapping & signposting materials
Our team has maintained and created even more materials raising awareness of the support services across Havering. These resources are essential self-help tools for local people, and essential mapping for community partners and connector roles who rely on them to signpost effectively into community support.
- Our website had 110k+ hits since September 2025.
- 7000+ referrals & signposts were made using the Joy directory.
- 5000+ printed directories were given out across the borough.
Our programme
Live Well Havering 'self-help' tools
Our team develops and maintains essential materials signposting local people into community support. These include:
- Live Well Havering booklet - printed directory given out to 5000+ residents.
- Live Well Havering website - digital frontdoor of all things health and wellbeing accessed by 80k+ people this year.
- Joy directory - a referral mechanism facilitating connections between residents and local support services that facilitated 7000+ referrals & signposts this year.
- Monthly newsletters for residents and workers across the borough - distribution list of 4800+ connections who keep up-to-date with the latest health and wellbeing news in Havering.
- Social media communications where we deliver targeted campaigns to reach local people - has increased engagement with campaigns by 900% for targeted, paid social media campaigns. Find us on Facebook, Instagram & LinkedIn.
Voluntary sector grant funding
Our team raises and gives out over £400k in grant funding to the community and voluntary sector each year through the Community Chest and Thrive Fund.
Targeted Public Health outreach
Our new team of 7 Health Trainers deliver face-to-face outreach on key Public Health priorities across the borough reaching local people who do not typically engage with traditional care settings.
Live Well Havering Network
A core function of the programme includes facilitating partnership activity and connections across the Council, NHS and voluntary sector. The Live Well Havering Network is a dedicated community space to empower collaboration, partnership working and voluntary sector capacity building.
Our goals for 2026/27
- Continue to build upon our foundation of community-led transformation.
- Reach even more residents through our printed, in-person and digital outreach tools.
- Increase investment into the Live Well Havering vision through social value and other funds to fund more community projects than ever before.
- Continue to build and grow our professional and resident networks to facilitate partnerships and eliminate silo working.
Want to be a part of our vision for Havering?
Email us at livewellhavering@havering.gov.uk
