Background

The Social Health Learning Project is the core project to emerge from the Loneliness and Social Isolation Partnership Group which seeks to investigate the underlying conditions that affect the social health of a community.

The project is driven by the voluntary sector and is ambituous, comprising a team of key individuals from RDUH, Exeter University and Devon Community Foundation to engage over 200 sector representatives in 17 communities across 14 sectors within Eastern Devon to understand how we can better support communities to build and sustain the relationships that keep people well.

Social Health Learning Project

Summary of Learning

The Workshop

The workshop invites Community Hosts and Stakeholders who took part in the project to come together to discuss the learning gathered as part of the project and contribute their own reflections

Using funding from University of Exeter’s Engaged & Participatory Research Fund, the conversation participants were invited to rigorously test and refine the model via practical group workshops and generate ideas using scenario role-play which led to discussions on how the model could be used to bolster social capital and infrastructure in our own places. The workshops acted as a ‘feedback loop’ to inform the overall learning presented in this learning report.