Wellbeing Enterprises CIC Shortlisted for Two Prestigious Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards 2025
Wellbeing Enterprises CIC is delighted to announce its nomination as a finalist in two categories for the prestigious Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards 2025. Recognised for its impactful and innovative work in health and wellbeing, the organisation is a finalist in both the Health and Wellbeing Award and the Innovation Award.
The Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards celebrate the transformative power of culture and creativity across the region’s six boroughs. Now in their sixth year, the awards honour individuals, organisations, and projects that make a positive impact on the community.
Health and Wellbeing Award – WE Connect Social Prescribing Provision
The We Connect initiative in partnership with NHS Cheshire and Merseyside (Halton Place) has been recognised for its transformative approach to improving population health and wellbeing. This holistic social prescribing service, integrated with all GP practices in Halton, is supporting thousands of patients every year by addressing the root causes of poor health and helping people overcome practical, social and emotional challenges in creative ways. The We Connect service helps people to help themselves overcome challenges, build capabilities and live a good life.
Innovation Award – Complete Care Community Project
The Complete Care Community project is improving outcomes for children and young people at risk of, or living with conduct (behavioural) problems; one of the most common mental health problems in children and young people. Using a range of creative community engagement methods, Wellbeing Enterprises collaborated with a diverse array of stakeholders to envision a desired future state to address this challenge, learning from lived experiences, identifying opportunities for positive change and co-designing and implementing an action plan for positive change. This project has raised awareness of this pressing public health challenge regionally and nationally, mapped, expanded, and improved access to evidence based interventions locally and built a robust case for prevention and early intervention with new health and social innovations being co-created.
Mark Swift Founder CEO of Wellbeing Enterprises CIC said "’I’m over the moon Wellbeing Enterprises has been shortlisted in two categories at the LCR Culture and Creativity Awards 2025. This is a huge boost for our dedicated and hard-working team.
For 20 years Wellbeing Enterprises has been delivering demonstrable improvements in health and wellbeing by helping people to help themselves overcome challenges, build their capabilities and live valued, dignified lives”
Anthony Leo, Place Director (Halton) at NHS Cheshire and Merseyside commented, “We are delighted to be shortlisted for Health and Wellbeing award alongside Wellbeing Enterprises CIC at the LCR Culture and Creativity Awards 2025.
We’re pleased that the We Connect initiative is being recognised for the real difference it is making to the health and wellbeing of so many residents in our borough."
Lynne MacGugan, PCN Manager at R Health said “We’re delighted to be shortlisted for this prestigious award with our partners Wellbeing Enterprises CIC. The Complete Care Community programme focusing on Child Conduct (Behavioural) problems has been an extraordinary learning journey which has developed and sustained new partnerships to enable successful pathways of care for children. The partnerships which have been built continue to grow and develop and the work programme is improving the quality of lives for the children and families impacted.”
Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in March 2025, celebrating the inspiring contributions of the cultural and creative sectors to the vibrancy and wellbeing of the Liverpool City Region.
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About Wellbeing Enterprises CIC
Wellbeing Enterprises is a health and wellbeing social enterprise based in the Northwest of England. As one of the first Community Interest Companies (CICs) in the UK, its mission is to help everyone live happier, healthier, longer lives. It does this by educating and supporting people, mobilising assets and resources in communities and working together with partners to tackle the underlying causes of poor health. www.wellbeingenterprises.org.uk
