More than a Sports Centre!

Positively changing individuals, families and the community.

Energy and Fun/Inspiring the community

History

• Ideas – Vision ... LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN• Original bid • The lease• How the pool subsidy was calculated• Integration of tennis and squash club• Requirement for Regional centre• Fundraising – a community mobilised• The build – huge investment (great value)

Sports Centre completed .....What now???

Encouraging all to play sport

Why do we do it?

Youth provision• Youth work apprentice scheme• Oban Youth cafe ....Hope2oban (H2O)• The Lock-in• Friday freestyle• Saturday night live

Elite Squad

Organisation life cycle

Extending Healthcare

intothe Community

A HEALTHIER FUTUREfor OBAN and LORN

HEALTHY OPTIONSWHY DO IT?

• 40% of our population have a chronic medical condition/s. That is 4,000 patients of the Lorn Medical Centre

• These conditions can be improved or control managed by adopting an active healthy lifestyle

This is our challenge:- “to improve the wellbeing of our ‘40%’ and for

Oban and Lorn to become a more active,fitter, healthier community”

‘If there is a problem in the community the solution is in the community’

HEALTHY OPTIONSWHY DO IT?

We start from a place of abundance, knowing that what we need we already have –

• We live in a healthy environment• We have well developed community resources and valuable

community assets• Strong social networks and inbuilt community resilience to ‘just do it’

• We have the active engagement of the Lorn Medical Centre• We have the full support of Atlantis Leisure• We have a modern regional hospital with the attendant health

professionals and departments

WE NO LONGER SEE A CHALLENGE, WE SEE A RESPONSIBILITY

HEALTHY OPTIONSWHY DO IT?

Who are our clients?

• 61% had more than one chronic condition, of those 9% having four or more chronic conditions.

• 20 conditions were identified, the top 6 being obesity, orthopaedic, mental health, high blood pressure, inactivity, respiratory problems.

• 39% were on one or more welfare benefits and received their Healthy Options programmes completely free of charge.

A special DYNAMICrelationship

Healthy Options

Health Professionals

Atlantis Leisure

OUR

40%

Social entrepreneursHealth professionalsHighly qualified staff

Skilled, experienced, motivated

Lorn Medical Centre + GP

Surgeries

Lorn & Oban Hospital

25 Health

professionals involved with HO

‘programme & patients’ team

Passionate about patients

Community owned, community built, community run

Nationally recognised exemplar for community sport

‘Be the best you can be in sport, health & wellbeing’ Our clients are an equal partner

What we do

Funding partners

DeliveryPartners

Our clients

Our volunteers

An innovative approach:

• Our relationship with clients

• Our partnership with health professionals

• Our relationship with Atlantis and delivery partners

• Our wider role, education and awareness

Our innovative relationship with clients

Funding partners

DeliveryPartners

Our clients

Our volunteers

Our ‘40%’ (clients) are our concern, our focus and also our biggest asset• First contact at Lorn Medical Centre, co-design social prescriptions• Stage 1 high level support, stage 2 moving towards self-care • A full year of support• Social Prescriptions – centre based, community based, home based

- available throughout the week to suit ALL clients• Opportunities for fellowship and to socialise ‘built in’• Programme development is mostly client led• Clients willing to become volunteers – peer support, walk leaders,

advocates

Our innovative partnership with health professionals

Funding partners

DeliveryPartners

Our clients

Our volunteers

25 health professionals have participated in our ‘programme & patients’ team resulting in:• Changes to the cardiac and pulmonary community programmes• Establishing progressive programme from treatment to self-care• HO staff and volunteers participate in NHS training programmes• Establishing a (world class) exercise programme for individuals with

MS• Developing ‘Move Well’ classes• Developing ‘Perfect Posture’ classes• Falls prevention rural community pilot• Counterweight rural community pilot

Medical treatment to managing self-care

Our wider role – Education and Awareness

Funding partners

DeliveryPartners

Our clients

Our volunteers

• Delivering activity sessions at Active Ageing event; U3A event; Housing Association tenants event, Breathe Easy group, • Advocacy programme, speaking to community groups• Oban Health Fair – 9 activities to take part in; Market Street

with 16 stalls of health related groups• Volunteer programme – A Healthier YOU a Healthier COMMUNITY• ‘Community Step Challenge’ ‘Pink Aerobics’• Delivering bespoke programmes for company employees• Created Healthy Options zone - information on active healthy

lifestyle; ties in with national campaigns; diet/weight management;Recipes and healthy eating – being developed as a mobile resource for 2015

Our innovative relationship with Atlantis Leisure

Funding partners

DeliveryPartners

Our clients

Our volunteers

• Introducing a new client group to Atlantis

• Developing the gym, making it user friendly to Healthy Options clients

• Developing Atlantis staff, up-skilling and new qualifications

• Atlantis staff co-delivering Healthy Options programmes

• Atlantis staff volunteering with Healthy Options and now qualified walk leaders

• From an ‘over 50’s’ class once a week to an ‘Active Life’ programme 9 activities Mondays, 8 activities Wednesdays

• Specialised gym equipment being sourced for Healthy Options clients

Making a Difference

HealthyOptions

Funding partners

DeliveryPartners

Our clients

Our volunteers

Key Learning:• Complexity of medical conditions• Health benefits to clients• Engagement and support of health professionals• Clients willingness to volunteer• Atlantis responding to client group and community

need• Less than 2 FTE employees can support 130+

clients per year• Qualified, motivated, dedicated staff are key

Making a Difference

HealthyOptions

Funding partners

DeliveryPartners

Our clients

Our volunteers

For our clients“I can now do moreactivities. I had spenta whole day on thebeach with mygrandchildren one dayover the summer.Prior to HealthyOptions I would nothave been able.”

“I was out of hospital, it was thenext step forward. I could go to a gym! I could put a tracksuit on rather than pyjamas! It waspsychologically a huge barrier tobreak – to return to the real world. I didn’t realise it at the time, but looking back at it that was ahuge thing.”

Making a Difference

HealthyOptions

Funding partners

DeliveryPartners

Our clients

Our volunteers

From a health professionals perspective

“More and more of my colleagues are realising the value – people who have engaged with Healthy Options don’t come back into our services because they don’t need to”.

“Healthy Options has also been of great benefit in measurable ways for some patients who have had problems with conditions such as chronic fatigue and low mood. I think it has helped some of them function better, get back to work, and improved their mood significantly”.

Lorn & Oban Healthy Options Ltd.Registered in Scotland No. SC383167 Registered Charity No. SC041998

www.lornhealthyoptions.co.uk

Extending health into the communitya 2-year pilot project funded by: