Community involvement

Initially the project started off as two separate consultation groups, one based in Brookhouse and the other based in Little Harwood. Both groups were given the opportunity by the HLC to take part in the Consultation Project where they would be given the opportunity to have their voices and the voices of other young people living within the two wards heard.

A new initiative designed to enable young people access funding.

Blackburn North Healthy Living Centre in partnership with Youth Service and Revidge Community Association are organising a 16 week consultation project for young people from the Revidge area.

The project will work with a group of excluded young people who live and spend their time in the Brookhouse area of north Blackburn. The area is one of multiple deprivations and has been the subject of many interventionist measures over the last 20 years. Most notably urban programme and city challenge which made huge investments in housing and began to address the areas record as having one of the poorest health records in the EEC.

The Healthy Living Centre has put up a women’s gym user group to ensure that women have their say and ownership towards the new gym.

The Healthy Living Centre has put up a men’s gym user group to ensure that men have their say and ownership towards the new gym.

The kick start safe driving project is for young men aged from 15-19 years with a Asian heritage background. The aim of the project is to introduce young people to safe driving and to train and support them to deliver a peer education programme.

Community Action for Health promotes healthier lifestyles. It aims to prevent sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy eating by developing projects alongside and in partnership with community groups.