Week 2 information

Welcome to week 2 of the ELLY project! We really hope you enjoyed your first week of ELLY last week. Hopefully you made it along to some of our community soup cafes (Tuesdays and Fridays in Denny, Wednesdays and Fridays in Westfield) and got chance to get your ELLY loyalty card stamped at an activity […]

Presenting our work

Julie and Scott were fortunate enough to attend the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) conference in Bremen, Germany last week. They presented the key findings from the systematic review that the team has been conducting.  The goal of this systematic review was to review all the studies we could find that completed community based projects […]

3…2…1… and we’re off!

Hello, and welcome to our first week of the ELLY project! We’re so glad to have you onboard with us, making the most of your community for social soup cafes and trying activities to support health and wellbeing, and perhaps even achieve some goals. The ELLY team will be dropping by the soup cafes (run […]

The countdown begins…

We are excited to announce we are officially recruiting for the project! If you have provided us with your details we will be in touch soon – or if you just can’t wait then feel free to get in touch. You can read more information by clicking on the button below or better yet, we’ll […]

Project update – thank you for all your help so far!

We want to provide an update on the ELLY project and what we’ve been up to. First of all we’d like to thank everyone for offering their help and time to design this programme. We’ve been very keen from the outset that this project be about working with the community for the community. This means […]

Straight back to it!

We hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. We’ve been working hard since we came back to put together everything you’ve told us so far. We’ve been listening and are creating a health and wellbeing intervention that you have asked for! We’ve got an outline but to make sure it’s something you […]

What are the community cafes for?

You may have seen the flyer through your door or perhaps picked one up from your local shop or community centre telling you about our community cafe. You might also be thinking what they are! Well, read on to find out more about what we’re aiming to achieve! Our project is all about working with […]

Two community cafes’ coming right up…

To help the communities of Westfield and Denny have a greater say in the project we’re hosting a community cafe in each area in December. Keep an eye out for a leaflet through your door with the date and activities on it. If you’d like us to stop posting things through your door you can […]

ELLY has been approved!

We are really excited to announce that as of 25th October 2022 we have received our ethical approval to start going door-to-door with our survey. This means we’ll be coming knocking on your door soon, if you’d like to tell us when is best come visit you, you can do it from the contact page […]