Community Healthworks
Community Health Works is a community health charity that delivers a range of community health activities across Sheffield.
Our Mission is to work with communities, services and organisations to support and enable people to improve their health and well-being.
Ethos - “To us, health and quality of life includes where you live, your economic circumstances, your relationships and your work, leisure and social life. We know there are clear links between low income and high levels of poor health. We believe local people are the experts in knowing what their community needs, and the need to feel good in yourself is as important as having or not having an illness”.
Our approach: The philosophy of the organisation is very much about empowering people as members of their local community to make a positive difference to it
What Community Health Works Does: Through community empowerment we deliver activities and projects that have a major impact on health and well-being in its broadest sense. Currently our primary focus is on using physical activities as tools to help in the process of addressing mental illness, obesity and social issues. Delivering these activities also plays a positive role in helping with the social and psychological development of participants. In many ways these activities also act as an engagement tool for developing more ongoing support structures.
