Have Your Say
Survey About St Helens Wellbeing Service
St Helens Council are carrying out a survey about St Helens Wellbeing Service, who provide a range of healthy living and wellbeing support in St Helens Borough.
Whether you have used the service before or not, they would like to get your views.
To complete the survey, please visit:
Volunteer Survey
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2026 as the International Year for Volunteers for Sustainable Development (IVY 2026). This global initiative aims to spotlight the vital role of volunteering in achieving sustainable development goals.
A Scoping Group, led by the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) and including organizations like UNICEF Generation Unlimited, IFRC, Forum, and the Volunteer Groups Alliance, has been established to guide the initiative in partnership with the UN Volunteers Program (UNV).
St Helens Wellbeing Service Survey
As part of the planning process for the St Helens Wellbeing Service, feedback is being gathered from residents to inform a review of the current service. This input will help shape the future direction of the service, ensuring it continues to meet the needs of people living in the St Helens Borough.
This survey focuses on specific areas of support offered by the St Helens Wellbeing Service, including stop smoking support, mental health and wellbeing, healthy weight, and oral health. Respondents can choose which of these areas they wish to provide feedback on.
Conference Reflection Survey
Remember our fantastic conference in October 2024?
We would like to ask you to cast your mind back to November 2024 when Halton and St.Helens Voluntary and Community Action (VCA) held our conference at the World of Glass.
The ‘What’s your story – tackling health inequalities’ Conference explored the huge impact our sector has on addressing he health inequalities faced by many in our communities.
People Asked For Views On Long COVID Services
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside is asking for people’s views as part of a review of long COVID support.
Hub-based services for those experiencing longer-lasting effects from COVID-19 were put in place during 2020, with access via GPs, but the number of people using them has fallen significantly over the last 12 months. Hub arrangements will now end, as the NHS looks at the best way to provide this care in the future.
Have Your Say On A Name For New Partnership
Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are joining forces and working as one to improve healthcare services for our communities. This is an exciting opportunity to really make things better for patients and staff, while also making services stronger and more resilient.
You can read more about how they are coming together through an integration programme on their website:
How Much Would You Be Willing To Pay For Policing?
Each year the Chesire Police and Crime Commissioner sets the police budget and consults with communities to see how much they’d be willing to pay for their policing service through their council tax.
This is also known as the policing precept.
The consultation is run online and can be accessed by this link:
The NHS 10 Year Plan
The NHS has launched a period of engagement around ‘Change NHS: help build a health service fit for the future’ a national conversation to develop the 10 Year Health Plan. The launch of the 10 Year Health Plan engagement follows the publication of Lord Darzi’s Independent Investigation of the National Health Service in England.
Liverpool City Region Recycling and Waste Survey (Community)
Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority are conducting research across the Liverpool City Region (made up of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St.Helens and Wirral) to better understand how residents feel about recycling and food waste. This research will help to shape future waste management plans, which impact everyone in our community.