A BID for county council cash has gone in to promote health and well being in Studley.
The initiative is being promoted by the local health trust and is being championed by the village’s county councillor Clive Rickhards who together with a team of interested parties, including the head of Studley High School, Lee Gray, is deciding on the format of the bid.
“A pilot study has been running in Alcester and it has really taken off,” Coun Rickhards told Studley parish council.
“In Studley it could initially take the form of a trim track, possibly in the school grounds but open to the community or we could have something in the Millennium Green area.”
He explained health and well being would also encompass ‘social prescribing’ where various health agencies could prescribe ‘social medicine’ ranging from fitnesss programmes to community groups and one-to-ones to boost people’s health.
“We would probably have to employ someone temporarily to co-ordinate the development of the scheme and move it to self-sufficiency,” said Coun Rickhards.
Parish councillors agreed to extend their website to include a health and well being page and to make a commitment to include health and well being in everything it considers. It also agreed to second a councillor to the health and well being board.
A bid for a slice of Warwickshire’s £500,000 transformation budget has now gone in but it’s a sum which is already oversubscribed from competing submissions.
“It’s an ambitious programme and what we have to do is consider is what will happen if we don’t get the money. We certainly won’t walk away from it, we will find the money from somewhere,” said Coun Rickhards.
