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Positive wellbeing

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How we can support you

Our highly trained community wardens can support you to live well at home and become part of your community. They challenge the disconnection, loneliness and isolation many people face and support you to reconnect, be active and have purpose – your own way. We can meet you in your home or arrange an appointment by phone or video.

If you are feeling isolated or lonely, then maybe a community warden can help you find positive wellbeing.

Would you like our support?

Our community wardens work in various communities across Kent. Before you make a referral, use your postcode to check if you have a community warden in your area. If a warden is available locally, you can submit a referral for yourself or someone else.

Make a referral

If you can’t find what you’re looking for or need assistance navigating the page, contact us for assistance on 03000 422 065 (10am to 3pm, Monday to Friday).

Alternatively, email positive.wellbeing@kent.gov.uk or visit our community directory to find wellbeing services local to you.

Championing positive wellbeing

Watch our video which features people in Kent who are championing our positive wellbeing message. Find out how the work that our community connectors carry out helps to re-engage and reconnect people with their local communities.

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Championing positive wellbeing in Kent - video transcript

What's involved

Positive wellbeing provides free, confidential, one-to-one support for up to 12 weeks and can help you:

  • improve your wellbeing
  • tackle loneliness
  • learn a new skill or participate in a new activity
  • increase self-confidence and self esteem
  • get involved in your community
  • take control of a range of situations with support.

The community warden will spend time talking through the issues that matter to you and help come up with solutions, often by linking you to services and people within your local community.

“I was always sitting at home, until my connector told me about the carers café she set up, now I go out more and meet new friends.”

Mrs N
3 elderly women sitting round a dining table laughing.

Carers' cafe, set up by community connectors - reconnecting people with their local communities.

Other support you can access

If you're feeling isolated or lonely and need further support, the following services and organisations can help:

  • Adult social care and health

    Our health and social care teams can help if you or someone you care for needs support due to illness, disability, old age or low income.

  • Age UK

    Provides a wide range of services to help people in later life.

  • Citizens Advice Bureau

    An independent organisation specialising in confidential information and advice to assist people with legal, debt, consumer, housing and other problems.

  • Community wardens

    Community wardens help to improve community resilience, support the elderly and vulnerable, foster community cohesion and wellbeing, and assist, with navigating community services.

  • Fusion Healthy Living Centre

    Offers information, advice and support to residents of Parkwood and the wider Maidstone community. They focus on health prevention and improvement by offering services that promote physical and emotional wellbeing.

  • Involve

    A charity working to improve health, empower people and communities to live well and tackle the root causes of ill health including isolation, loneliness, disadvantage and frailty.

  • IMAGO

    Provides a range of services and projects that support independence, reduce social isolation and create opportunities for adults and adult carers in Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley and Swale.

  • Red Zebra

    Provides a range of services in East Kent that enable people to be involved and active in their communities and to remain independent in their own homes.

  • Social Enterprise Kent

    Delivers a positive social impact, strengthen communities, empower people and improve lives.