Health and Wellbeing

The Health and Wellbeing Network

The Wellbeing Network brings together third-sector organisations (local, regional and national) operating in Flintshire and Wrexham who have an interest in health, social care, and well-being.

The Network is also open to statutory partners and welcomes new members.

This collaborative network in North East Wales is jointly managed by AVOW and FLVC. It offers professionals in both the Third and Statutory sectors across the counties an opportunity to meet face-to-face. The main goal is to share updates on projects and news from different organisations and foster connections among peers. We hold quarterly meetings.

The aims of the network are to:

1. Bring together third sector organisations to present a collective voice.
2. Motivate, inspire, include, and build trust among third sector organisations.
3. Share information and good practice ideas with other third sector organisations.
4. Influence the development of health, social care, and wellbeing activities and services in North East Wales.
5. Ensure the third sector is an equal partner in the delivery of integrated health, social care, and wellbeing activities and services in North East Wales.

If you would like to present your service or project at a network event, please contact: info@avow.org.

The Wellbeing team in FLVC and AVOW supports the third sector and statutory partners in a number of ways:

Strategy

• Promoting third sector organisations, services and activities to statutory partners
• Representing the third sector at strategic planning and partnership groups
• Engaging the third sector in consultations and engagement about health and social services
• Promoting partnership working within the third sector and across sectors

Development

• We can help support organisations by signposting or providing business support, governance and funding advice
• We provide training to organisations to improve their capacity and effectiveness
• We can explain the complexities of commissioning and procurement
• We can help keep you up to date with the latest evidence base, and guide you through the changes in NHS and local authority structures
• We can help you start up a new service or group
• We can support the third sector in Flintshire and Wrexham to access FLVC and AVOW’s services

Provision of Information, Advice and Assistance

• We work alongside statutory partners to provide information and advice to the public, about third sector organisations, services and activities
• We raise awareness among professionals of third sector provision in health, social care and wellbeing
• We work with statutory partners to develop information and advice services including the Single Point of Access (SPoA) and Dewis