On Wednesday, Slough CVS hosted the Social Prescribing World Café Day at Slough Community Forum with around 100 attendees from the voluntary and statutory sectors (SBC and NHS) braving the wintery day to discuss three key topics:

• Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Digital Inclusion
• Multi-Generational Households

Among the speakers were Dr Priya Kumar, Health Inequalities Lead and Slough GP and Marc Gadsby, Executive Director, SBC.

      

This event was funded by Berkshire Health Frimley Trust to help make a positive impact on health inequalities faced by our communities and organised by Asma Aziz and the SCVS team. She said, “Social prescriptions play a big role in this, and we could see this in the difference the Art Class Group made to Sandy’s life experience, giving her a purpose to want to continue.  This is the positive impact the voluntary sector is really making to the lives of vulnerable Slough residents.”

We had some fantastic feedback following the session, including: “Another fantastic event”, “loved the case studies”, “I have not done anything like this before”, “brilliant for networking”, “everyone was so engaged!”, “great table discussions and mix of partners”, “how do you get so many people to attend…it’s amazing”, “thank you so much for organising the Social Prescribing Day. The quality of content and the diversity of people was immense.”

A Report will be available shortly.