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The Oakwood Hill Community Centre hosted its first annual stakeholder event to explore the community priorities for the area and how they can be addressed.
The event on Friday 15 November was organised by Epping Forest District Council (EFDC) Community & Wellbeing team and Oakwood Hill Community Engagement Officer in collaboration with Restore Community.
The event aimed at improving the health and enhancing the wellbeing of residents the event served as a vital platform for service providers to connect and develop support systems with residents in alignment with the Epping Forest District Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
Residents had the opportunity to engage with numerous service providers and partner organisations working together to embed their services in the community, ensuring residents can easily access crucial support.
Key organisations
Representatives from key organisations included:
- Active Essex
- Affordable Counselling
- Alderton School
- Citizens Advice
- Debden Park High School
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- Epping Forest Foodbank
- EPUT NHS Mental Health Nurse
- ESCA Workforce Development
- Essex Libraries
- Essex Police
- Flourishing After School Clubs
- HCR Care Group
- Home Start
- Loughton Town Clerk & Councillors
- MIND
- National Careers Service (NCC)
- NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
- Peabody
- Phoenix Futures
- Public Health Officer
- Qualis
- Residents of Oakwood Hill
- Restore Community
- Safer Places
- Social Prescriber Epping South
- The International Education Group
- University of Essex
- Vita Health Group
Address local health challenges
Councillor Kaz Rizvi, Portfolio Holder for Community Health & Wellbeing Portfolio Holder said:
This free-to-attend event marks the beginning of a collaboration amongst partner organisations from across the system. By connecting stakeholders, EFDC aims to create a support network that embeds their services into the community to help identify solutions to address local health challenges and support residents.
Well done to the staff and providers involved who made this event a success.
Help improve the wellbeing of Oakwood Hill residents
Councillor Stephen Murray, Loughton Roding Ward councillor said:
Congratulations to those involved in organising the first of these annual stakeholder events.
The range of agencies present was very useful and impressive. It was great to see involvement from a number of residents and some purposeful inter-agency networking to help improve the wellbeing of Oakwood Hill residents.
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