About us
The forerunner to the Wellbeing Project
The Wellbeing Project was set up in St Helens in 2006 as a constituted voluntary group that supported the recovery of people who were experiencing mild to moderate mental health distress.
The group’s original aim was to provide volunteering opportunities for clients in the field of mental health promotion. The group harnessed the creative energies and natural talents of clients, using these as a starting block for individual recovery, personal development and skills acquisition.
The group was borne out of a pilot project funded by what was St Helens PCT at that time. This original project followed similar principles of harnessing individual talents and strengths to support recovery and the return to meaningful employment.
The social enterprise
In the latter half of 2006 the Wellbeing Project steering committee made the decision to register as a social enterprise. It was one of the first organisations to adopt the new format of Community Interest Company (CIC).
The decision to register as a ‘CIC’ was borne out of a desire to make the organisation’s efforts sustainable, so that it could help more and more people.
Early successes
The pilot scheme and its predecessor the Wellbeing Project CIC were the proud recipients of the Northwest Public Health Commissioning Award back in 2006, and in 2007 the Wellbeing Project CIC was awarded a Comic Relief grant of almost £100,000, bringing total funding raised to almost £150,000 in just 18 months.
Establishing core business
The organisation has endured considerable change, and has recently restructured its Board of Directors and reviewed its core business activities.
The organisation is now focusing attention on the provision of social prescribing opportunities for people in Halton and St Helens experiencing mild to moderate mental health distress.
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The vision
As a social enterprise, the Wellbeing Project CIC is playing a central role in the provision of innovative and effective social prescribing opportunities; by offering community based interventions that bring people together, and that focus individual attention outwardly on getting emotional needs met.
Supporting IAPT
The organisation is supporting the Increasing Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) agenda through its range of social prescribing opportunities linked with a stepped care model for Primary Care Mental Health.
The organisation is focusing exclusively on interventions targeted at Step 0 and Step 1 of the Primary Care Mental Health Pathway.
It is the ambition of the Wellbeing Project CIC to become a national leader in the social prescribing arena.
Company registration
Company registration no: 05888474
Private Limited Company