Our Partners
2010 Year of Health & Wellbeing
2010 is the Year of Health and Wellbeing in the Liverpool City Region and is a great opportunity for everyone to join together and make positive changes to their health and the way they feel about themselves.
Building small actions into your daily life can make you feel good, and feeling good is an important part of being healthy.
Blackburne House Group is a training led organisation, which delivers high quality training, education and consultancy services. Today, the organisation employs 70 staff and offers 50 different courses with 1,000 full and part time learning opportunities for women.
Blackburne House is a beautiful Grade II listed building, situated in Liverpool's famous Hope Street quarter, close to the city centre. Attracting thousands of visitors each year, its facilities include a thriving café bar, a women’s health suite, excellent conference facilities and a 30 place nursery.
The Blackburne House Group is a dynamic social enterprise, winner of a Social Enterprise of the Year Award in 2002.
We are an organisation seriously committed to bringing about a just world free from poverty. We do this by raising funds and awareness and giving all the money raised directly from the public to charitable projects across the UK and some of the poorest countries in the world especially in Africa. Our biggest events are Red Nose Day and Sport Relief, which have raised millions of pounds for poor and disadvantaged people.
NHS Halton and St Helens looks after the health of around 295,000 people and is responsible for ensuring that the services provided by independent contractors - GPs, pharmacists, ophthalmologists and their staff - District Nurses, Health Visitors, School Nurses and others are of the highest standard.
It also commissions services from St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals (NHS) Trust, Five Boroughs Partnership Trust, Cardiothoracic Centre - Liverpool NHS Trust, the Royal Liverpool Womens Hospital and the Royal Liverpool Childrens Hospital, as well as the specialist care needed by local people from other hospitals and organisations throughout the UK.
Primhe believes that all Primary Care Professionals (PCPs) need essential core skills to deal with people in distress, with, or without, a diagnosis of a mental illness. People with "mental health problems" account for nearly 30% of primary care workload and 90% of such people are "dealt with" in primary care settings. It is also hard to imagine many consultations with a conscious patient where the brain-mind is not present, so Primhe believes that PCPs must be adequately trained and supported to address this issue.
Primhe was actively involved in submitting evidence to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) Review and will continue to do so, as it works to lever the whole person (and not merely their constituent parts) and their condition(s) back into general practice consultations. People present with issues and needs and in various predicaments before they acquire a diagnosis (which can itself be an inappropriate response).
Primhe therefore believes that excellent primary care is not merely treating to targets; it is about whole-person predicamental health care. Primhe works to help people "Dump Descartes" and his time-expired and non evidence-based brain/mind-body and physical-mental dualistic paradigms.
School for Social Entrepreneurs
The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) exists to provide training and opportunities to enable people to use their creative and entrepreneurial abilities more fully for social benefit. SSE supports individuals to set up new charities, social enterprises and social businesses across the UK.
The SSE runs practical learning programmes aimed at helping develop the individual entrepreneur and their organisation simultaneously: our approach, and belief, is that social change is people-powered, and that the most valuable assets and resources we have are human ones.
St Helens Chamber is an important feature of the local business environment and is continually improving to meet the changing needs of its strong Membership and improve the economic success of St Helens businesses and people. We represent all industry sectors, and Member companies ranging from sole traders to large corporations and multinationals.
St Helens Coalition of Disabled People
Established in 1994, St Helens Coalition of Disabled People (CDP) is an independent, user led charitable organisation run by and for disabled people. As an organisation we are committed to valuing everyone's life skills, experience and individuality to enable positive change.
UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. We do this by providing a complete package of funding and support, to help these individuals make their ideas a reality. UnLtd is a charitable organisation set up by seven leading organisations that promote social entrepreneurship. UnLtd - the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs - wants to support and develop the role of social entrepreneurs as a force for positive change in the United Kingdom. In the short to medium term UnLtd will achieve this by providing:
- Awards to social entrepreneurs
- A UK wide Fellowship of people who have received awards
- Research into the impact of social entrepreneurs on society
- UnLtd Ventures
In 2002 the Millennium Commission granted an endowment of £100 million to the Millennium Awards Trust, the income from which will be used to fund UnLtd Awards and the Fellowship. UnLtd is the Trustee of the Millennium Awards Trust.