From trauma and mental health to broader wellbeing themes, this category centres on the factors that affect how individuals and communities feel, function, and flourish — with a focus on care, compassion, and context.

Methodology not Ideology
Developing a workshop-based program to learn what kind of understanding and ideas evolve when we start from individual experiences. After the enthusiasm of finding that many people were interested in ...

Defining the 'vision' for Belong in Plymouth
In February 2022, the core team of Belong in Plymouth came together to create a Theory of Change for our work. This proved to be challenging due to the emergent nature of the work and the trickiness o...

Hope in The Heart Exhibition Spring 2022
Hope in the Heart brought together artists with lived experience of poor mental health to share their thoughts in a reflective way with professionals. It was one of our first attempts at bringing diff...

Processing conversations together
You might be wondering what happens to conversations once they are collected? Well, I am happy to say that back in November 2023 we reached a significant milestone. With the support of Health Determin...

Expression of Interest - March 2020
Please tell us why you are applying. What does the partnership want to achieve and why, and over what period of time? Why do you think you can be successful? In Plymouth, our aspiration is to ‘shift ...

Stage 2 submission - October 2021
In 4 years time, success looks like: An established, ongoing community conversation continually feeding into strategic decision-making. Quality support for immediate community action, which is furth...

Belong in Plymouth @ Matters of the HeART
On May 18th, Belong in Plymouth hosted an event at Ocean Studios to emphasize the importance of listening. The event aimed to make participants feel heard, regardless of their roles or labels, and to ...

Strengthening Local Networks, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
We’ve always known that social isolation and loneliness are local issues. So we began thinking: what would it take to build neighbourhood networks that actually connect people? Karen Pilkington propo...