Healthy Living Wessex, Weymouth
Well-being - Activate your Life Lighter way to live 

Healthy Living Wessex is a not for profit social enterprise working to improve the health and well being of people by supporting lifestyle changes for health and personal reasons, both in the workplace and community.

Our  Key Aim is to:

1. Improve physical health for individuals and within communities by encouraging positive lifestyle changes.
2. Improve mental wellbeing of individuals and communities by enabling them to reach their full potential
£. Ensure the corporate health of the company making it fit for purpose

Well-being
In Weymouth, Portland and Bournemouth Healthy Living Wessex is a delivery and will be delivering:

• Family Weight Management Courses
• Lifestyle Mentoring

Our project will help people to take the first steps to lifestyle change in a focused sustainable way. The programme of Family Weight Management and Lifestyle Mentoring targets 2000 people living in the most deprived communities of Dorset and Bournemouth and will work with people who would benefit from a lifestyle change and specifically:

• families for whom and weight management skills would be beneficial
• Individuals with low level mental ill health for whom self esteem support/stress management and confidence building would provide a quick response solution and prevent deterioration into serious mental ill health.
• Individuals approaching older age (45yr +) would benefit from the development of social networks 
• people  who have been newly diagnosed with a health condition and whose quality of life could improve, or be positively maintained 
  those who are inactive or unfit and those who are isolated by way of age, race, gender, environment or through lack of social networks and skills.