The Active Best Practice Network
Welcome to the Active Best Practice Network - a podcast series sharing expertise and advice about providing health and wellbeing services, brought to you by Active Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Episodes
Welcome to the Active Best Practice Network presented by Active Herefordshire and Worcestershire, hosted by Rich Hurst of GiftedGab Productions.
Within this podcast series, our aim is to connect with listeners on this journey of sharing best practices; aimed at professionals, communities and those who are interested in supporting and sustaining change in the health, voluntary and community sectors. There is a special emphasis on th...
In this episode Rich Hurst speaks with Lucy Bird and Lucy Chick about their experiences in working with communities, highlighting the importance of both listening to, and empowering communities to set up needs-based community projects, based on the assets available to them and ‘going where the energy is’.
Lucy Bird is a Community Builder at Droitwich CVS and has worked within community development for over 12 years. With knowle...
In this episode, Rich Hurst speaks with the Health and Wellbeing Team from Tenbury Surgery (Taurus Healthcare), in Tenbury Wells. In line with the national campaign of ‘Know your Numbers Week’ (2nd to 8th September 2024), the podcast delves into collective experiences working as a Senior Social Prescriber and Health and Wellbeing Coach, addressing community health needs by setting up a hypertension (high blood pressure) group. Thr...
In part one of this episode, we speak to Nigel Gould from Evesham Bowling Club and Don McAll from Ledbury RFC.
Nigel and Don discuss the impact of flooding on their sports clubs, the learnings gained from increases in flood occurrences and successful funding applications to minimise the damage of sport-related assets.
Links related to this episode: We are providing some information relating to some of the external projects a...
In part two of this episode, Denise Ludlam, Strategic Lead for Environmental Sustainability at Sport England and Stephen Brewster, Chief Executive Officer at Active Herefordshire and Worcestershire, discuss Sport England Every Move strategy, and its commitment to supporting clubs and organisations with measures to address climate change issues.
Part two also reflects on some of the valuable insight raised by Nigel Gould and Don ...
In this episode we hear from Toni Martin, Physical Activity Clinical Champion (PACC) for the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) at Sheffield Hallam University and an Associate Lecturer of Midwifery, teaching at BSc and MSC level at the University of Worcester.
Toni shares how PACC training can empower healthcare professionals to understand and communicate the benefits of increasing physical activity to improve health and w...
In this episode, Christine Price, Chief Officer of Healthwatch Herefordshire and Esther Passingham, VCSE Strategic Lead for Worcestershire VCSE Alliance discuss the Voluntary, Community Social Enterprise (VCSE) network collaborating with the Integrated Care System (ICS).
The discussion highlights the aims of partnership work for the ICS to work in conjunction with the VCSE sector; sharing community voice with healthcare commissi...
In this podcast we hear from Beky Williams, Managing Director of Stride Active, Dan Thomas, Head of PE and Business at Kingstone High School and Lucy Finch, Teacher of PE at Kingstone High School.
The group discusses projects which have been involved in, that have proved instrumental in gaining feedback from girls within the Herefordshire region, taking action to create space for open conversations to hear from girls on how to re...
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