Years of delivering community-led health improvement services in South Lanarkshire ANNUAL REPORT 2016 - 2017 Contents Page Staff of 2016 - 2017 1 Chairperson’s Report 2 Board of Director’s Who’s Who 3-4 Executive Manager’s Report 5 Organisational Priorities 6 Priority 1 - Promoting Heathier Lifestyles – Community Health Matters 7-9 Community Food Matters 10-14 Grassroots Project 15-17 Go2Play Project 18-19 Lanarkshire Domestic Abuse Response (LDAR) 20-22 Parents Supporting Parents Project 23-25 ReConnect Project 26-28 Smoke Free Project 29-30 Priority 2 - Volunteer Development 31-34 Priority 3 - Organisational Development and Sustainability 35-37 Staff of 2016 - 2017 Lesley McCranor Julia Miller Pauline Nichol Carolanne Robertson Management Team Management Team Finance and Admin Team Finance and Admin Team Clare Cook Christine Baillie Kate Williamson Grassroots Project Grassroots Project Grassroots Project Fiona Gairns Barbara Harding Simone Janse Van Rensburg Robert Stewart ReConnect Project ReConnect Project Community Food Matters PSP Project Wendy Kyle Mary Hasting Margaret Browning Community Health Matters Out & About Project Community Health Matters Carol Hamilton Jenny Dewar Faye Frame Stephanie Girdwood LDAR Project LDAR Project Go2Play Project Stop Smoking Project 1 Chairperson’s Report At the last AGM Sinclair Scott stood down as Chair of the Healthy Valleys board. Everyone at Healthy Valleys wants to give a huge Thank You to Sinclair for all the support, guidance and time he gave to the organisation over many years. Some of the challenges Sinclair described in his last report for us have stayed the same, but others have moved in positive ways. Healthy Valleys’ accommodation problems were eased when we moved in May to the Lockhart Community Hub in Lanark. This lets our team work in a place that is more convenient for the people who we are here to support. It also brings good opportunities to work alongside people in other community groups and staff who work in Community Health services. We hope this will lead to more good ideas and partnership projects that bring more benefits to people living in our part of South Lanarkshire. People living in Clydesdale continue to be affected by health and social inequalities. This Annual Report shows the many ways Healthy Valleys is responding to the needs and choices of the people we work alongside. Over the past few years the strategies and priorities set for Scotland and for South Lanarkshire have increasingly reflected the approaches that we know make a positive difference in people’s lives: preventing problems arising or escalating, promoting good health and wellbeing, and working with people to build resilience for themselves and their families and for their communities. We are proud to be contributing to achieving good outcomes for people living in our communities as well as achieving the policy outcomes. I want to thank the volunteers and staff at Healthy Valleys and the other members of the board for everything they have contributed to making this another good year. Anne Connor Chairperson - Healthy Valleys 2 Board of Directors Sinclair Scott After graduation and junior hospital posts, Sinclair came to Douglas as a General Practitioner. The practice covers a large geographical area of South Lanarkshire, with surgeries in the three largest villages plus the Community Hospital at Douglas. It has a long history of training medical students and GP’s. After retiring from the practice Sinclair took the post of Programme Director for GP Training in Lanarkshire until full retiral. Married with three sons, three daughters-in-law, two grand-sons, one step-grand- daughter, and one step-great grand-daughter! Retired last year after 50 years as Scout Leader and retired from Healthy Valleys board on 24th November 2016. Anne Connor Anne lives one mile outside South Lanarkshire, in Scottish Borders. She currently works as Chief Executive of Outside the Box, which is a small charity that provides community development support to groups across Scotland. Her previous roles included developing national participation projects for people using health and social care services. She started her working life as a civil servant and was a manager in the NHS with responsibility for mental health and addiction services. Anne was appointed Chairperson on 24th November 2016. Bill Watson Bill joined the Healthy Valleys’ Board of Directors in 2008. He was educated at Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh and qualified as an ICAS accountant with Deloittes. He then took up post as accountant in electronic manufacturing before becoming a financial director then managing director. He won the queens award to industry for export achievement. He has also managed distribution businesses in USA, France, Italy, Spain, Australia and Singapore. Before retiring, he was Chief Executive of Scottish Rugby Union for six years, creating and chairing the Celtic League and sitting on the IRB, 6 Nations and ERC boards. He also operated a private ambulance company in Scotland and North England for six years. Sporting wise, he played international rugby for Scotland in the 1970’s and coached at Boroughmuir and Biggar RFC. Fred Farrell Fred is originally from the Glasgow area, he studied Law at the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow. Until recently he was a practising member of the Faculty of Advocates and specialised in criminal trials. He is a member of the Scottish Medico Legal Society. Fred is married, lives locally and has a passion for motor bikes and classic cars. He is also an active member of Coalburn Historical Society. 3 Leo Sherry Leo joined the Board in 2012. Before this he worked in the public sector in the areas of planning, regeneration, economic development, community engagement and, programme and project delivery. Through partnership working he has engaged extensively with the private, public and voluntary sectors in project delivery. In addition, as a volunteer for a number of years, he has gained an understanding of the challenges facing voluntary sector organisations in building their capacity for service delivery and organisational development. In his spare time, he strives to improve his musical ability. John McCafferty John McCafferty has worked in local government for the past 28 years, firstly with Renfrew District Council (where he was involved in the regeneration of Ferguslie Park and other areas in Renfrewshire) and since October of 1996 with South Lanarkshire Council. John purports to be a golfer and a keen 5-a-side footballer and has more holidays per year than Alan Whicker in his prime. Karen McGuigan Karen McGuigan is currently a Health Improvement Co-ordinator and Public Health Advisor for NHS Lanarkshire. She has worked for NHS Lanarkshire for 16 years and was one of the original members of the group that secured funding to develop the Health Valleys initiative. Her first degree is in sport and she also has a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of Glasgow. Karen joined the Board in 2015. She is passionate about empowering communities to improve health and wellbeing and recognises the valuable role that the third sector plays in this. Karen spends her spare time with her husband and two young sons and enjoys running to keep fit and healthy. John Dalrymple John is an experienced social worker who has spent the majority of his career working in services for people with learning difficulties in Scotland. He is currently the Director of Neighbourhood Networks. John was the first chief officer of the Grampian based Partnership Housing (INSPIRE). In 1998 he co-founded Support for Ordinary Living, a supported living organisation in Lanarkshire. John was also instrumental in establishing Values into Action Scotland as an independent Scottish agency in 2007, and now acts in the role of co-chair. As a hedge against retirement he has recently established a new consultancy agency, Radical Visions, with his colleague Frances Brown. John lives in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, with his wife Moira, and is keen on Hearts, jazz and Scottish self- determination. 4 Executive Manager’s Report This year has been full of new developments, organisational growth, moving to bigger and better premises whilst progressing and delivering the Health and Social Care priorities. At Healthy Valleys, we are highly focused on our core strategy: innovative approaches to health improvement, early intervention and prevention, community engagement and empowerment, highly motivated and caring workforce, operational excellence delivering optimum value for money. These are the key factors to our continued growth and success and enable us to deliver effective and efficient community based health models that reduce health inequalities in our operating area. On the move…….from Rigside to Lanark! This interim move has proved extremely successful and brings people together from across the vast rural area; volunteers, beneficiaries and other agencies, working together to strengthen relationships and achieve common goals. Investing in People - People at the Core People are very important to us and that includes staff. We have a very high retention rate, excellent work attendance levels and envious service delivery. Staff growth and development; staff and volunteers access opportunities to increase skills and knowledge through a range of continuing personal developments; conferences, knowledge hubs, seminars, workshops. People are our most precious commodity and we want to continue to develop their skills, experience and knowledge through action learning. Resilient people and communities Early Intervention and Prevention methods are designed to action as soon as possible before issues become more difficult to reverse. Our relentless focus on finding out what people need to help turn their lives around for the better is what we are about. Not giving up when the tough gets tougher, in fact, that makes us more determined to fight for those who feel disempowered and don’t feel their voices are being heard by those who need to hear them and act on what’s being said.