Newcastle Neighbourhoods Community Wellbeing Project

Newcastle Neighbourhoods is about working within and alongside people in their own neighbourhoods. Focusing on the assets and strengths within a community, and making connections between these in order to strengthen communities. This approach is called Asset Based Community Development (ABCD).

This approach means:

Investing in the assets that are in your community, this can be places like community buildings, or assets like community groups and networks.
Reviewing the ways we deliver our services or commission services at a neighbourhood level
Changing how our adult social care teams work so they are closer to local neighbourhoods.
Balancing our support with support from services in your neighbourhood as well as your own individual support networks.

Neighbourhood Networks

There are 4 Neighbourhoods in Newcastle:

North
East
Inner West
Outer West

The Community Wellbeing Team run regular Networking events to connect people across the health, social care, voluntary, community, housing, sport, leisure, uniformed services and social enterprise sectors.