West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership (CHCP) has announced that The Annexe Healthy Living Centre will run the area’s Healthy Living Initiative for the next two years.

The Annexe has been selected to provide a range of services designed to address health improvement and health inequality issues among west Glasgow’s population. The contract requires the Annexe to work in partnership with a variety of local agencies and community groups and, more importantly, local people to design and implement effective health improvement programmes on issues such as improving nutrition, home safety, reducing alcohol consumption and drug misuse, and promoting sexual health.

Negotiations on the details of the service level agreement between West Glasgow CHCP and the Annexe is already underway, ahead of an anticipated start date of September 1.

Jessica Murray, the Vice Chair of West Glasgow CHCP Committee, welcomed the decision. She said: “The Annexe clearly demonstrated their ability to provide a strong and flexible service that matches the aims and priorities of the CHCP. We look forward to settling the specific terms of the work we expect them to undertake over the next two years and to them beginning in earnest in September. The Healthy Living Initiative is a very important way of addressing inequalities in health and well-being in the west of Glasgow.”

The Annexe’s Manager, Julie Fox, said that her organisation was pleased to be awarded the contract and excited at the prospect of delivering health improvement programmes in local communities. ‘We look forward to engaging with people at local level, listening to their views and ideas and involving them in the various aspects of the work we have been commissioned to deliver.’ she said.