Working for the West End
During the summer, WEM provided funding support to Lancaster & Morecambe College (LMC) to launch a new Digital Inclusion project in the West End of Morecambe. Offering advice, support and training for local residents to help them develop essential digital skills at The Link on West Street.
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Earlier this year we asked a group of young people from across the West End to develop a scheme to distribute £20,000 to their local community.
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Janette Edwards is a trained health and wellbeing coach who works to support and help people. WEM has funded her to deliver support work in the West End community. She will be offering Mental Health Support Services in the form of stress management / resilience workshops. These are aimed at helping with proactive approaches to people managing their own mental health needs.
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Enable is a supportive community group for people living with long term health conditions in the West End, and throughout Morecambe, Lancaster and surrounding areas. They offer support to people struggling with their mental health, physical health or both and have a wide variety of members. Their general activities include regular support group meetings, weekly coffee catch ups, craft sessions, monthly meals out, day trips and much more to help combat isolation, and increase the wellbeing of their community, which their members find invaluable.
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Green Rose are working with WEM to make their advice and support directly accessible to communities in the West End. The West End work was set up for one year but has proved so successful that WEM has agreed, with Green Rose home energy advisors, to extend the activity for another six months, covering the upcoming winter.
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Among the projects that West End Morecambe Big Local (WEM) has recently commissioned are a growing number of smaller initiatives.
One exciting development is that LDCVS (Lancaster District Community & Voluntary Solutions) is looking to set up a local Morecambe office and, being of impeccable taste, they are looking at the West End.
We have (forgive the pun) been going round the houses on this one, with lots of people talking about needs for supporting people, and many groups having an interest, but little in the way of progress being made. With that in mind we now plan to cut through the talk, build on the wealth of links already made, and simplify this project into a local housing worker.
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Among the projects that West End Morecambe Big Local (WEM) has recently commissioned are a growing number of smaller initiatives.
One such initiative plans to bring a little ‘Sparkle’ into the West End. As the evenings get darker, we’re planning to help light things up with something celebratory that leaves a solid legacy for illumination activity in the area. Working with Morecambe Sparkle CIC, the organisation behind the much acclaimed Baylight festival, WEM has agreed a £10,000 contribution towards some illuminations in the West End. We are agreeing the details this month and hopefully the West End will be more aglow this winter.
Among the projects that West End Morecambe Big Local (WEM) has recently commissioned are a growing number of smaller initiatives.
We hope to develop a commission that will support individuals who have lagged behind in digital skills. A key issue is how to provide support in a way that is welcoming and reduces the anxiety of the digital world and of learning settings.
Back in March 2023 we launched a mental health project commission, looking for some activity that would support mental health in the West End. The mental health commission was advertised for over five weeks and generated a good deal of interest, with over 170 downloads of the main commission and small ideas form.
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