Our Impact

Creating lasting impact by empowering communities and workplaces to prioritise wellbeing.

The WHO Healthy Cities members in a group photo with the Mayor of Derry

Community-centered results

We are delighted to introduce the Developing Healthy Communities Impact Report for 2024/25. It is a snapshot of who we are, what we do and where we are going.

On this page you can see the headline figures that demonstrate our impact but the numbers just scratch the surface of what our team has achieved this year. Download the full report for case studies, words from our Chair and Chief Executive, and a summary of our future goals.

Our impact

Helping our community

£1.5m

In PHA short-term funding delivered to community and voluntary organisations in 2024/25

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People cooking seasonal healthy meals in 12 community venues at the inaugural Acorn Farm Stew Fest

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Community and voluntary workers trained in mental health and suicide prevention

Project impacts

Clear Project

  • Administered £1.5m supporting 475 projects
  • Administered £25,936 of funding to Sports Clubs in the Western HSCT area
  • Trained 192 community and voluntary workers in mental health and suicide prevenion

Work Well, Live Well

  • Recruited 41 new workplaces to the PHA workplace health support programme
  • Trained 32 new workplace health champions
  • Celebrated successful completion of our conract to deliver Work Well, Live Well with 300 workplace health champions trained since 2016

Acorn Farm (I Can Cook)

  • Introduced the seed-to-plate journey to 87 schoolchildren, and gave parents and teachers evidenced based advice for introducing new foods
  • Discussed tradition, health and seasonality with 100 participants at the inaugural Acorn Farm Stew Fest
  • 95.5% of participants gained new skills or knowledge

Ideas Fund

  • Continued our participation in the Community Research Collective, embedding principles of community and academic collaboration for the long term

Families Voices Forum

  • Contributed to veteran suicidality research with Queen's University
  • Continued to shape and develop Protect Life 2
  • Amplified the power of youth voices in suicide prevention and postvention

WHO Healthy Cities

  • Drove forward new collaborative groups and areas of work including the Whole System Approach to Healthier Weight and the Western Diabetes Group
  • Began preparation for designation to phase VIII of the WHO European network of healthy cities
  • Hosted arts and health workers at the Guildhall, Derry-Londonderry, for a major conference on creative health