West Lancs CVS, together with other members of the West Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Partnership, headed by West Lancashire Borough Council, has formally signed a declaration to promote healthy weight across the Borough.

Our Chair, Vic Citarella, was at the partnership meeting on 17^th March as a signatory to the new Healthy Weight Declaration.   The partnership is committed to work together to consider how residents can be supported to eat healthily, move more and live well.

The declaration includes looking at how policies associated with planning and the built environment as well as marketing and advertising, can reduce residents’ exposure to unhealthy food and drink whilst reviewing how workplaces and other settings promote health and wellbeing.

Other organisations signing up to the declaration include West Lancashire College, Edge Hill University, Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, Northern Parishes Primary Care Network, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, West Lancashire Community & Voluntary Services, Age UK Lancashire, Active Lancashire and Lancashire County Council.

Find out more about this new approach to tackling health inequalities in West Lancashire here