Healthy communities

What we do

Our joint strategic needs assessment 2025, which brings together local health data to inform policy, commissioning and services, suggests five key priorities for healthy communities in Tower Hamlets:

1. Develop the skills and confidence of residents in local neighbourhoods.
2. Work with residents, voluntary, community, faith and health partners to increase social connections and build relationships, by getting involved with activities.
3. Support volunteering and participation in local neighbourhoods working with groups including charities, mosques, churches and other faith settings.
4. Increase residents’ involvement in decision-making to empower them to improve community health.
5. Develop ways of measuring whether we are improving community health.

How the Healthy Communities team can support you and your neighbours

• Communities Keeping Well – is a programme working in eight neighbourhoods to prevent diabetes, heart and lung diseases and mental illness.
• Community navigators | Tower Hamlets Connect – are local workers who support residents to access health related services
• Events – health fairs and other opportunities in communities
• Volunteering in Tower Hamlets - Volunteer Centre Tower Hamlets – community health and wellbeing champions and other volunteer residents trained to support their neighbours with healthy life-style changes
• Providing information and links to support on quitting smoking, managing weight, reducing alcohol, managing blood pressure and supporting better mental health
• Supporting work to reduce health inequalities experienced by different groups like faith communities
• Staying connected | Tower Hamlets Connect - reducing loneliness and isolation

Contact us

Communities Keeping Well: CKW@towerhamlets.gov.uk

For our navigation service: navigators@towerhamlets.gov.uk

To join our health champions’ volunteering programme: mima@vcth.org.uk