Community Led Neighbourhood Health
Tags: Guidance
2nd August 2025
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Four useful documents with four years of learning from Willenhall, bringing the work to life with practical insights and case studies.
Quote: "Across the country, neighbourhoods are being recognised as vital building blocks of a healthier, fairer society . At the same time, there’s growing recognition that, if we want to improve health and reduce inequalities, we need to fundamentally change how our health system works with communities."
1. Neighbourhood Health from the Ground Up - A community-led approach to reducing health inequalities (Report and Case Studies)
Will Bibby, Anthill Collective June 2025
Content includes
- Why community-led neighbourhood health matters
- Work at a Hyper-Local Scale
- Building Agency and Community Power
- Combining Community Power with Public Services
- Creating the Conditions for Community-led Neighbourhood Health
2. Partnerships for Health - Lessons for cross-sector collaboration from healthy communities together (Report and Top Tips)
Will Bibby, Anthill Collective June 2025
Content includes
- Start with relationships
- Anchor everything in shared purpose
- Plan for change and revisit relationships
- Invest in dedicated partnership capacity
- Partnership checklist
3. A Community-Led Neighbourhood Health Model - Three building blocks for change (One page document with tips)
- Work at Hyper-Local Scale
- Grow Individual and Collective Agency
- Combine Community Power with Public Services
4. Six Conditions for Community led Neighbourhood Health (One page document with tips)
- Invest in Local Capacity and Infrastructure
- Empower Frontline Professionals
- Share Power and Participation
- Unlock Flexible, Accessible Funding
- Build Embedded Neighbourhood Teams
- Make Space for Cross-sector Dialogue