Community Cohesion Project on the Wirral
Raising awareness of the role churches can play in supporting community resilience and wellbeing.
Transforming Lives Together are part of a consortium of faith organisations on the Wirral which submitted a successful funding bid to the Local Authority for ‘Asset Based Community Development – Engaging faith’. The aim of this work is to raise awareness in churches of the role they can play as part of the community, voluntary and faith sector in supporting community resilience and wellbeing. A second aim is to encourage greater, more meaningful and effective engagement and collaboration between churches, communities and the public sector. Transforming Lives Together are the lead body for the work and have specific responsibility for delivery of accredited Mental Health First Aid training, the opening of new Places of Welcome and assistance with organising community conversation events.