Kintyre Healthy Living Partnership

Kintyre Healthy Living Partnership - an innovative partnership that aims to make a positive impact on the well being of the people of South Kintyre. Kintyre HLP provides support, information and practical help to improve life circumstances, life styles and choice through a range of locally led projects. Working towards a South Kintyre characterised by individual and community wellbeing and encompassing improved life circumstances, styles, and choices with regards to health issues.

The project targets groups who are particularly disadvantaged, as well as promoting health within the community as a whole, through the delivery of services that will have an impact on:

• Self Esteem
• Healthy Eating
• Physical Fitness
• Vulnerable Individuals
• Skills
• Opportunities
• Choice

In December 2007, at the end of a five year Big Lottery Fund grant which had achieved significant impacts on health provision within the community, the Partnership had an under spend against budget and successfully negotiated with the BLF to utilize these funds with continued support to various projects in the area.

A successful application to the BLF Investing In Ideas fund has yielded £10,000 which is being used to carry out a Health Needs Analysis for South Kintyre to identify any gaps in service provision and develop a plan of how these needs can be met, explore a future structure for the Partnership and identify potential partners/stakeholders.