Big Lottery Fund

We believe well-being to be a holistic term that includes positive mental health, good physical health and eating habits, as well as strong social networks.

Current programmes related to well-being include the Impact of Alcohol programme in Northern Ireland, the Improving Futures programme supporting families with multiple and complex problems across the UK, and Life Changes in Scotland.

Achieving lasting impact in well-being is vital to increase people’s resilience to life challenges and to reduce health inequalities. Read about the Big Lottery Fund’s evidence from our Well-being programme and learning from our recent event for grant-holders

Some project examples:

Food and fitness Well-being evaluation report February 2011 - 6,273KB: increasing access to healthy eating and physical activity for people with learning disabilities.

Healthy Transitions Well-being evaluation report February 2011 - 6,273KB improving the personal and social well-being of young people.

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• Well-being projects have increased individual and community empowerment. Read practical examples explaining how 
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• ‘My confidence has increased massively – I now have a reason to get up in the morning.’
  For funders and policy makers, read our findings about the importance of volunteering for individual well-being 
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• We developed the one of the most comprehensive set of well-being measurement tools for our well-being evaluation; policy makers and practitioners can find out more here 
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• Find out more about well-being related programmes 
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• Find out how we approached our National Evaluation of Well-being and look back on our findings from the first year. The most recent reports are here

IN DEPTH

Depression reduced, life satisfaction up.

Our evaluation: for the first time standardised measures of well-being are building a picture of levels of well-being in England across key areas of well-being.  We’re in the third year of the evaluation but already have exciting findings to learn from and share with grant holders and policy makers. The findings, full report and summary are here

The importance of character

We recently supported DEMOS’s Character Inquiry to build understanding about how character can affect well-being and social mobility. A summary and the full report are here

Please contact us to find out more.