Join us to hear from Grimsby based young social entrepreneur Bailey Greetham-Clarke, CEO Be Great Fitness who started his own business at just 17 years old.

More information about Be Great Fitness can be found here – https://www.begreatfitness.org/

The company – At Be Great Fitness, we are driven to make fitness accessible to all! We use the term accessibility in the broadest term possible by breaking the word down into specific categories: ability, cost, time and location. By working with a variety of people who may not be able to access guided fitness, we want to provide safe spaces for them to improve their wellbeing through exercise.

We work with specific groups ranging from people with additional needs to the elderly, and behavioural management as well as providing safe spaces for people to improve their wellbeing through exercise.

All of our sessions run out of a variety of multiple facilities, schools and community centres around the whole of Lincolnshire with our main aim to ensure all of our sessions cost little to nothing to join in.

Bailey – (Snippet from an interview with Grimbarians) At age 13, Bailey dropped out of school when he suffered from severe anxiety, calling

this quite a dark time in his life. Ultimately, he found the confidence to say ‘No, I’ve got to do something about this’ – and he went for a run. Bailey was in his jeans and a pair of old trainers, and managed short bursts of running and walking, but he did it and kept on going. He joined a gym and after sticking to a fitness routine that worked for him, he noticed a positive change in both his physical and mental health. He felt confident enough to return to school and take up a new sport, boxing. Bailey fought his way to become a northern champion and placed second in the England Boxing National Development Championships.

In 2019, Bailey was named the ‘Under 16 Student of the Year’ at the Grimsby Telegraph’s Golden Apple Awards, chosen by the judges for overcoming barriers and adversity. This helped Bailey to realise that “I can do good things, even if it’s not in the way society tells me.

“When I was leaving school, I was told to ‘get a trade’ but it didn’t feel right to me. I studied construction and had an apprenticeship with Anglian Water, but as Covid hit and we had to study at home, I knew it wasn’t right for me, so I quit.

“I saw how lockdown was affecting people and understood how quickly you can get into a bad state when you’re at home all the time, often alone. I wanted to develop something that could help. People need access to free fitness, and I had some business and marketing experience from working at Jazz Clothing in Abbeygate, so that’s when I started BeGreatFitness, in lockdown in 2020 when I was 17.”

BeGreatFitness provides people of all ages and abilities with access to a variety of exercise classes, all completely free of charge. In 2020, Bailey began working with local charity Flourish to provide online BoxFit classes for young adults with learning disabilities. Since then, Bailey, along with his team of coaches, is delivering Women’s BoxFit, Stroke Mobility

sessions, after school boxing, sports classes designed to engage children with behavioural challenges, and specialist projects with the students of Grimsby’s Cambridge Park. These sessions are taking place across Northern Lincolnshire and are being scaled up to help potentially thousands of people nationally. “There is no limit. I didn’t start this to help just a few people, I want to help a hell of a lot of people. So yes, this is a business, but it’s good for people, we’re a community.”

In 2022, Bailey and BeGreatFitness was a winner of the inaugural Mayor’s Civic Awards, which celebrates people doing positive work in and around Grimsby, taking home a trophy for the Healthy Living category. He has scored his first national award shortlisting as a Young Entrepreneur in the Start Up Awards, and will this week find out if he is a winner at the Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards 2022, where he is a finalist in the New Business and Young Business Person categories.

“It’s massively important for people to have some sort of hobby, to take the pressure off everyday life. And there are so many jobs now that have been made up in the last 10 to 20 years that no longer fit with a strict academic style. Kids need to go to a tech club to become the next great innovator, or to experiment with fashion to become a fashion designer, the next Dior, whatever it may be. It’s important for young people to have access to different hobbies and to have different aspirations.”

If you are interested in attending this event please see the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fit-for-social-change-using-fitness-to-build-strong-communities-tickets-600187977397

If you find yourself talking about money with your clients or service users, we’d like to hear from you.

You might be a frontline worker helping customers/service users with money related issues, or a leader in an organisation that delivers money guidance in some way, for example in health and social care, housing, voluntary or community organisations, or local government. We’d like to hear from:

• anyone who provides any type of information about money, whether or not this is officially part of your role
• anyone based in the UK across all four nations
• those working with young adults through to older and retired people.

The Money and Pensions Service is sponsored by Government and is committed to ensuring that people throughout the UK have guidance and access to the information needed to make effective financial decisions. As such they are keen to make sure they are doing all they can to support you and others in similar roles – to do this they need to learn more about YOU! We’d appreciate if you would take about 5 minutes of your time to complete a series of questions about you and your role, where you work, your customers/service users, your attitudes and perceptions relating to talking about money and your training preferences.

To access the survey please click here: https://harlowconsulting.welcomesyourfeedback.net/MaPSPractitionerSurvey2023

The information you provide will be analysed by independent researchers Harlow Consulting and reported to the Money and Pensions Service anonymously. If you have any queries about this research, please contact Joanne McGillan at Harlow Consulting – jmcgillan@harlowconsulting.co.uk or money.guiders@maps.org.uk

Following the publication of our Report “Improving Dental Services across Lincolnshire” in January 2023 we are delighted to announce that Sarah Fletcher, Chief Executive Officer at Healthwatch Lincolnshire (and LVET Board Member) alongside Chris McCann, Director of Communications, Insight, and Campaigns at Healthwatch England, have been asked to appear before the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee on Tuesday April 24 at 1.30pm.
 
The fact that we have been invited to attend is down to the strength of our report, as a record number of written submissions (34) from local Healthwatch were presented to the Committee following the national #fixnhsdentistry campaign.
 
The proceeding will be televised live and can be viewed at https://parliamentlive.tv/committees or https://committees.parliament.uk/event/18137
 
If you can’t watch the live event, it will also be available to watch on-demand.
 
Follow the link for the full report: https://www.healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk/report/2023-03-14/improving-dental-services-across-lincolnshire

Update

The Joint Health and Wellbeing Board met on Tuesday 28^th March.

Items of note:

1. Director Of Public Health Annual Report has been published ‘The Diverse Communities of Greater Lincolnshire’. The contents may be useful for decisions around funding, understanding local need and informing and influencing work.  

                You can read the report here.  https://lhih.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DPH-Annual-Report-Final_2022.pdf

2. The Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Needs Assessment(JSNA)  has been undergoing a substantial review throughout 2022/23. The Lincolnshire Health and Wellbeing Board have now formally ratified the JSNA

3. The Lincolnshire Health Intelligence Hub https://lhih.org.uk/

This website is now live and hosts the JSNA and the DPH Annual report. The Public Health team are planning to hold a webinar in June to showcase the site, the information it contains and how it can be used. We will share the date once confirmed.

I think VSCE organisations will be interested in the data available here, to inform planning and decisions and to understand need.

4. The recently updated Joint Health and Wellbeing strategy is available on the LCC website Joint health and wellbeing strategy (lincolnshire.gov.uk)

Public Health are happy for the attached information and the link to the intelligence hub to be shared on your own websites if relevant and across your networks. If you have any further questions, see any information that could be updated or any comments on the site, please email JSNA Project Team on: JSNA@lincolnshire.gov.uk

Other agenda items covered at the meeting (see attached pack of papers for full details) included:

• Lincolnshire NHS Strategy – 5 year plan including a communications and engagement report.
• Healthy Weight Priorty update
• Physical Activity Prioirty update
• Lincolnshire Better Care Fund

For further information please see the link below.

DocPackPublic HWB 280323

Substance misuse recommissioning

Executive DLT supported a proposal for the recommissioning of the Substance Misuse Treatment, Recovery and Family Support Services. All current contracts for the Public Health Substance Misuse Services expire on 31 March 2024. A recommissioning exercise is underway and the proposed new model is due to be considered by the Executive on 4 July 2023.

Lincolnshire County Council currently commissions treatment and recovery services through contractual arrangements with We Are With You (With You). The contract delivers drug and alcohol services (including evidence based clinical and psychosocial therapies) to adults and young people, reaching 3,244 service users in 2021/22.

The new proposal will be an integrated treatment and recovery model that includes all age drug and alcohol treatment (psychosocial/clinical services and needle syringe programme), Stay Safe prevention (awareness raising/targeted work including children and young people) and a recovery service. There will be a separate specialist all-age family support service with links to treatment and recovery.

The Integrated Treatment and Recovery Service will provide a stronger focus on recovery throughout the pathway. No transitional arrangements will be required for service users moving from treatment to recovery, creating a simple pathway for services that should make it easier for people to know how to access support and increase the numbers benefitting from services. It should also provide economies of scale through governance and organisational infrastructure such as IT and premises. The provider will be able to flex funding across the model to meet local needs and strategic priorities.

There will be a clear identity for the Family Support Service which will improve awareness of the support available and how to access it. Families are more likely to access a service that is not attached to treatment and recovery. This option will procure a specialist family support service that will provide quality interventions and achieve the outcomes required for this service.

Funding will be protected at the 2021/22 level of nearly £5.5m but the new contract will allow for the budget and scope of the service to be scaled up and down in response to variable grant funding. National supplementary funding opportunities will be key to continuous improvement of the service.

Good Home Alliance

Executive DLT have been updated on the findings of research and co-production regarding a Good Home Alliance in Lincolnshire as the service design phase of the project is ending. Proposals regarding next steps are now being outlined to ensure that the momentum and enthusiasm for this project is maintained.

The aim is for Lincolnshire residents to live as independently as possible in a safe, warm, and suitable home, for as long as possible. Alongside this, Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) has a corporate priority objective to create a One Stop Shop for aids, equipment, and adaptations.

Through our 5-year strategic partnership, Lincolnshire and the Centre for Ageing Better (AB) agreed to explore what a Good Home Agency might look like. In Lincolnshire, this is referred to as the Lincolnshire Good Home Alliance, reflecting the need for existing services to work differently rather than creating an entirely new entity. The design stage is now complete and agencies like the district councils, need to decide which elements can now be implemented. The learning from Lincolnshire will be used as a model which could be rolled out nationally.

Eight themes have been identified which could lead a Good Home Alliance, including:

• Good quality information – available to everyone. Connect to Support could provide good quality, trusted information as the online hub for information and guidance on housing issues.

• Trusted tradespeople – available to everyone. This will link with the development of the Buy with Confidence scheme being launched by Trading Standards.
• Healthy home assessment – available to everyone. Short and long assessment to allow residents, their families or staff working with them to identify any potential hazards and risks in the home and to access help and support in resolving these.
• Support for funding sources – available to everyone. Cost could be a barrier to home repair and maintenance. Details on local and national loans, grants and other financial resources are being collated, and ways of linking residents with funding sources.
• Advice and casework – this will help residents to assess work that needs doing within their home, provide support from start to finish and act as a contact point.

Some themes will develop quickly (e.g., good quality information; healthy home assessment; trusted tradespeople); others are likely to take longer.

Discussions will continue with partners around funds for developments and how a casework pilot can be achieved. Pilots to test some aspects require further work, including scoping financial commitments required to achieve these. The Centre for Ageing Better has retained funds to provide an evaluation.

Day Services update

Executive DLT were given an update on activities and successes from John Waters, who manages Day Services. Key highlights include:

• New base for Market Rasen. Fully refurbished new site, a community project benefitting from lottery funding and an asset for the town.
• Volunteering opportunities – over 70 individual examples including Boston servicereaping regards from volunteering at local stables.
• The Quad Café, County Offices – work experience, skills independence for existing day service users, school and college leavers.
• Blackbird Flies mixed ability theatre – theatre company practice and perform at the Riverhead Theatre.
• Supported volunteering – supporting work in the community: Keith’s Animal Rescue, Salvation Army charity shop, senior citizens club, church and sheltered housing garden, maintaining nature trails.
• Enhanced opportunities – service users from Horncastle and Boston enjoyed weekend of outdoor pursuits in Lake District.
• ICE Conference – organised week-long conference at Butlins, Skegness, supporting service users, families and staff as a fun, learning event.
• Community archaeology – with The University of Evansville, supported people to take active part in an archaeological dig at Harlaxton Manor.

The number of people accessing the service are slowly increasing up to around 300. In addition to supporting its traditional user group, the service has started to offer a range of drop in opportunities and provide a venue for various community groups. Uptake of this offer has been steadily growing across the year. Drop-in figures for March include support to carers, older people with dementia, and veterans. This has been achieved by working in partnership with a range of local organisations including Age UK, Carers First, Deaf Society, Young Carers.

CQC Assurance Programme

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have new powers to assess how local authority adult social care performs (think OFSTED for Adults!). These new powers come into force from April 2023.

Under the new regime, the CQC will be reviewing data and published evidence across all 152 local authorities with responsibility for adult social care, focusing on care provision, integration and continuity as well as assessing needs. Data and evidence won’t be published at individual local authority level but published at an overall national level as a collection of evidence, similar to their annual statutory State of Care report to Parliament. Initial formal assessments of local authorities are expected to start later in the year from September. In the intervening period CQC intend to visit up to 5 local authorities to test their Assurance methodology.

We have decided to apply for Adult Social Care in Lincolnshire to become one of the 5 pilot sites – we’ve been notified we are in the running so fingers crossed. Justin Hackney, Assistant Director, has been asked to lead the programme on behalf of DLT as we begin to prepare for a possible ‘inspection’.

If we are successful in becoming a pilot, it will involve the CQC being provided with evidence both on-site and off-site – face-to-face with leaders, colleagues and partners as well as processes and outcomes for our customers, plus financial information. The CQC will then provide a report and indicative score for all the quality statements and an overall rating (though not a formal rating for the pilot).

Upcoming comms promotion

Forthcoming comms activities:

• Supporting promotion of Lincolnshire Community Equipment Service as the new contract starts.
• Vapes – continue to promote the work of Trading Standards/Public Health as the profile on this topic is so high.
• Supporting social media promotion for World Immunisation Week (24-30 April).
• Supporting promotion of the new Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) website with stakeholders.
• Comms promotion of engagement surveys (Let’s Talk Lincolnshire) for Integrated Lifestyle services and NHS Health Checks – posters, news releases and social media to drive response to the surveys.

PG Cert Safeguarding: Leading Safer Organisations

The safeguarding of children, young people, and adults at risk of harm, protects them from neglect, abuse or harm. The PG Cert Safeguarding: Leading Safer Organisations is aimed at leaders in medium-to-large organisations in the third sector who interact with this demographic as a business.

The course aims to help leaders develop and implement the skills needed to introduce safe practices and cultures that seek to protect those who are at risk, as well as equip businesses with the processes to protect against allegations, should they occur.

The University of Lincoln has developed this course in collaboration with a range of key organisations including the Church of England, the Methodist Church of Great Britain, The Princes Trust, Save the Children, ActionAid International, and Lincolnshire County Council.

If you are interested in finding out more, please see details in the link below.

 Link: https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/course/saflsopc/

Personalisation Programme

Free training opportunity.

The Personalisation Programme are excited to be able to offer the following fully funded training to all Lincolnshire patient facing staff in health, social care and the voluntary sector to assist you in your role when supporting people to improve their physical and/or mental health.

Motivational Interviewing – 1 day virtual course

If you spend your life explaining what your patients should, could, must or need to do then this is the course for you. Motivational interviewing is a style of communication that uses a guiding/reflective style to engage with people, clarify their strengths and aspirations, and utilise their own motivations for change, and promote independence of decision making.

Friday 15^th September, 9-4pm

To find more information please visit Learning & Development :: Lincolnshire STP (itsallaboutpeople.info) or to book your place please email lhnt.itsallaboutpeople@nhs.net

Tuesday 16^th May 2023, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm at The Bentley Hotel, Newark Road, South Hykeham, Lincoln, LN6 9NH

Hosted by Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Research Team on behalf of Lincolnshire ICB Dementia Programme Board

As part of Dementia Action Week, LPFT’s Research Team are facilitating a conference about dementia research and the role we can all play in research studies. 

The keynote presentation and discussion will consider the latest evidence on risk factors associated with dementia and what this means for Lincolnshire. The morning will also include presentations on National Institute for Health & Care Research (NIHR) studies and opportunities for the people of Lincolnshire to be part of research.

Please see a full itinerary below as well as a link to register.

9.00	Arrival, refreshments, stands
9.30	Welcome and housekeeping: Steve Roberts, Associate Director of Operations, Older People & Frailty Division, LPFT and Gina Thompson, Dementia Transformation Programme Lead, LPFT
9.45	Dementia: Who is at risk and what should we do to reduce the risk?    Gill Livingstone, Professor of Psychiatry and Older People, University College London
10.30	Discussion: What does this mean for Lincolnshire?  Led by Public Health and the Lincolnshire ICB Dementia Programme Board
11.00	Break, refreshments, stands
11.30	Join Dementia Research and NIHR Studies in Lincolnshire  Tracy McCranor, Clinical Research Manager, LPFT
11.45	The Maintain Study: Maintaining Independence in People with Dementia Who Have Fallen (University of Exeter)
12.00	Pathfinder: Problem Adaption Therapy for Depression in Dementia (University College London)
12.15	The Cognitive Daisy in Care Homes (COG-D): To Support Person-Centred Care (University of Lincoln)
12.30	PRESIDE 2024: Preliminary Randomised Evaluation of Singing in Dementia (University of Nottingham)
12.45	Closing Remarks  Steve Roberts and Gina Thompson
13.00	Lunch, stands

Please register via the below link if you wish to attend:

Lincolnshire Dementia Research Conference Tickets, Tue 16 May 2023 at 09:00 | Eventbrite

Please note, this is open to professionals as well as people living with dementia and their carers.

We would also like to provide some information and advice at the event about what support is available in Lincolnshire. If your organisation is interested in having a stand to promote what you do and how you can support people living with dementia and their carers, please contact tracy.mccranor@nhs.net (and CC amy.clifton3@nhs.net). Please note, confirmation is needed by Friday 28^th April.

We’re Stronger Together

We are inviting you to our Lincolnshire Voluntary Engagement Team conference ‘We’re Stronger Together’ on Thursday 20^th April 2023, 9.30am – 3.45pm.   The conference will be at Bishop Grosseteste University, Longdales Road, Lincoln, LN1 3DY.  The event is free and lunch is included!

The conference is a great opportunity for representatives from the VCSE Sector to come together to listen and learn alongside colleagues and friends from our statutory, voluntary and community organisations involved in health, care, and wellbeing across Lincolnshire.  

Keynote speakers include: Billy Palmer – Nuffield Trust; John Turner – NHS, Glenn Garrod – LCC; Lincolnshire Community Foundation and the National Lottery.

There will also be networking and workshops.

We would love to see you there.

For further information and to register to attend please see the link below.

Flyer and Registration

Sponsored by Bishop Grosseteste University.