Healthy Living Wessex is a not for profit social
enterprise and, like every other organisation in the new civil society, we are
struggling to survive the cuts and infrastructure changes.

I have not blogged
recently as I am tired of being a grumpy old woman. Until now I have always
been an optimist. I have always seen the bigger positive outcomes of any hard
change, but no more. I await the light and have restructured my company to
SURVIVE. This is not to make it more efficient or more effective, as it was this
before.

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Charities have been delivering crucial
public services long before the term big society was coined.

Often created in response to a social need
that was not being met by the state, these charities now provide national
services that form part of the social safety net people have a right to expect
in a civilised society.

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Since my last blog life, as always, has moved on.

The
good part is that the independent evaluation of our work through the South West
Well Being Consortium: Well Being Programme has been described as ‘eye-wateringly exciting’ and has shown real statistically significant improvements
in reported good health, healthy eating, mental health, physical activity
levels and mental well being.

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