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The Wellbeing Team

The Forest of Dean Community Wellbeing Team is part of a County wide service, jointly commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council and Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group.  

This new service brings together social prescribing and the village and community agent service, with our former Village Agents now being known as ‘Community Wellbeing Agents’.  The Community Wellbeing Agents will continue to work very much at community level whilst our Social Prescribing Facilitators remain working out of all our Forest GP surgeries.  The service is available for everyone living in the district of the Forest of Dean or who are registered with a Forest GP surgery.

The new service not only supports individuals to self-care and self-manage to create independency and wellbeing but also supports our communities and our voluntary and community sector to build social and community networks by linking people and community services together as well as encouraging and supporting new community initiatives.

The Community Wellbeing team is part of the Forest of Dean District Council’s Community Engagement Team and so benefits from a wealth of knowledge and understanding of community based provision throughout the area and is well placed to connect people to access a range of issues such as healthy living, social activity and making friends in the community, help caring for someone, supporting getting back into work, housing-related issues,  mental health and wellbeing, bereavement support and much more…..  

If you know of someone who would benefit from this service or indeed need support yourself then please do contact us in confidence on 01594 812447/812399/810000 or email us at community.wellbeing@fdean.gov.uk  – we are here to help you.