ANNUAL REPORT 2024-25
Wellbeing Exeter is a collaboration of organisations working together to improve the wellbeing of individuals and communities across the city. Our shared goal is to make Exeter a healthier, more connected place to live.
We are all about connecting people and building community, this annual report highlights how we achieved this in the period April 2024 to the end of March 2025.
Cllr Duncan Wood, Portfolio Holder for Leisure Services and Healthy Living stated:
"This year’s report highlights the tangible impact of our collective efforts: from supporting individuals to become more active, to supporting community activity in our neighbourhoods."
One of our service users said:
"With the support of organisations like Wellbeing Exeter, we can help others but also help ourselves at the same time.”
As Wellbeing Exeter:
We are greater than the sum of our parts.
OUR IMPACT
Our impact report summarises the scale and value of the Wellbeing Exeter programme, in particular what has been achieved in the last five years. The report presents a range of independent research and evaluation, both quantitative and qualitative, to illustrate the depth of the programme’s impact.
Wellbeing Exeter has worked on a one-to-one basis with thousands of Exeter and Cranbrook residents to support them to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
We have featured a selection of Community Connectors stories here, illustrating the range of ways in which the programme walks alongside people as they take action to move forward with their lives. It is a testament to the creativity and skill of the practitioners, and to the individuals’ courage and willingness to try new things.
COMMUNITY BUILDING
This report from 2022 explores the Community Builders’ responses to the changing context as a result of Covid-19. It considers the impact of a shift to virtual communication for an area of practice defined by face-to-face interaction, and also looks at the rise of hyper-local links, and the changing nature of volunteering, among other issues. It has been useful to have experienced, knowledgeable people on the ground to help us interpret the changes wrought by the pandemic at neighbourhood level, and their implications.
In the summer of 2023 Devon Community Foundation conducted a survey of Exeter residents, asking about their knowledge of and engagement with their local Community Builder. They received 354 responses from across all wards in the city. In addition, they held a series of interviews and focus groups with residents who have had significant contact with the Community Builders, to understand from their perspective where the value of community building lies. Read the full report here.
IMPACT 2021-22
This report captures and shares some of the key elements of the programme. It draws on work across the partnership, reflecting the vast and diverse contributions of the Community Builders, Community Connectors and Community Physical Activity Organisers alongside the Coordination team who support the delivery partners to collaborate, communicate, develop and share insight.
