Community Wellbeing Exchange is a Pockets & Prospects Project, made possible through funding from the Scottish Government via  Scottish Community Alliance.  

Social Enterprise Scotland, SCHW and CHEX are  collaborating on the Community Wellbeing Exchange. It follows on the success of last year’s Pockets Prospects Project that supported community organisations to address mental health & wellbeing needs within their local community. Read the Summary Report. 

Our approach is based on the model developed through a partnership between GSEN & SENScot for the successful Glasgow Pockets & Prospects Project which aimed to tackle loneliness and to mitigate the negative impacts of welfare reform, whilst also connecting and developing social enterprises. 

Community Wellbeing Exchange builds upon the valuable learning of previous work, with the approach based on the fundamental premise that community organisations have access to a small budget to purchase activities and services from social enterprises that contribute towards improved mental health. This enables community organisations who understand the needs of their local community to tap into services they may previously have been unaware of or been unable to afford, whilst also supporting social enterprise suppliers. 

We have 20 community organisations that each have an allocation of £1000 to access 100's of brilliant and wide-ranging activities and services being offered by social enterprise suppliers.

Even if you’re not participating in the project as a community organisation with the £1000 allocation, we invite you to browse the range of activities and services offered by over 40 social enterprise suppliers this year. 

For more information please contact: 

Kim Wallace : kim.wallace@socialenterprise.scot   (Social Enterprise Scotland) 

Andrew Patterson : andrew.paterson@scdc.org.uk   (CHEX) 

John Cassidy : john.kcassidy@ntlworld.com   (SCHW)