The Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport committee have published a survey for people to give their experiences of alternative pathways to primary care, which could include,among other things, many community-led health activities and anything termed social prescribing.
Read MoreNear Me is NHS Scotland’s free online video consulting service for health and care. Community organisations can use it in their work and may also want to help raise awareness of it among their community.
Read MoreSENScot, SCHW and CHEX are inviting expressions of interest in this programme which will enable 20 community organisations across Scotland to purchase a wide range of mental health & wellbeing focused activities and services supplied by social enterprises and third sector organisations.
Read MoreCHEX recently submitted our response to the Scottish Government’s National Care Service consultation. We’ve summarised our response to what was a very detailed consultation document, which should hopefully get across the key points without making you have to read through the whole thing.
Read MoreA new report shows how giving community organisations small pots of funding to buy in mental health focused activities and services from social enterprises can make a real difference to the health of people, workers and local organisations.
Read MoreCHEX is preparing to develop a submission to the Scottish Government’s National Care Service consultation and we’d like to invite our network to help shape our response.
Read MoreA free See Me online workshop for community-led health organisations in the CHEX network. The workshop will take place on Thursday 3rd June 2021, 10:30am-12:00pm, and is based on See Me’s suite of practical mental health inclusion resources for tackling stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings.
Read MoreA research report from Nesta, Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s ihub and Outside the Box has explored the role of commnity organisations in supporting people’s health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic. It also asks what insights and learning can help understand how to sustain, strengthen and grow community organisations’ role in supporting people’s health and wellbeing in the longer term.
Read MoreJoin us for our online conference to explore the impact of Health Issues in the Community across Scotland.
Read MoreOn Thursday 14th January 2021, CHEX is running a participative online workshop on the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act for community-led health organisations and the wider community sector across Scotland.
Read MoreCHEX is inviting any network members with a social enterprise element to their work to apply to have their services added to a programme of activities around mental health which will be on offer as part of the Pockets and Prospects pilot starting in November 2020.
Read MoreJoin us on Thursday 3rd December to give your views about a new human rights law in Scotland.
Read MoreAs part of the Scottish Community Alliance’s community sector network, SENScot, SCHW and CHEX are collaborating on a pilot project to enable 15 community organisations to tap into a wide range of mental health & wellbeing focused activities and services supplied by social enterprises and third sector organisations.
Read MoreThis exchange event on the 6th October will preview the write-up of Healthy n Happy’s ‘Our Gathering’ project so far and give an opportunity for all participants to discuss learning and ways in which they might use the learning in their own journeys.
Read MoreThe Scottish Government’s Community & Third Sector Recovery Programme funding stream is now open, offering both organisational support and funding to deliver services.
Read MorePublic Health Scotland would like to understand more about how communities have responded to the impact of Covid-19 on the way we live our lives.
Read MoreOn Wednesday 9th September 2020, CHEX is running a participative online workshop on the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act for community-led health organisations and the wider community sector across Scotland.
Read MoreWhat if we applied the same principles behind our response to coronavirus to tackling health inequalities and climate change?
Read MoreIn this article we hear from Castlemilk Together about the work they’re doing to support their community during the Covid-19 outbreak.
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