About Healthy Living Wessex

Healthy Living Wessex (HLW) is a not for profit social enterprise working to improve the health and well-being of people both in the community and the workplace, by supporting lifestyle changes either for health or personal reasons.

A social enterprise is a business with primarily social objectives. HLW reinvests all surpluses, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. HLW delivers services within the most deprived and at risk communities supporting the reduction of health inequalities.

Key Aims

• To improve physical health for individuals and within communities by encouraging positive lifestyle changes.
• To improve mental well-being of individuals and communities by enabling them to reach their full potential.
• To ensure the corporate health of the company making it fit for purpose.

Core values

• Fun and friendship and a sense of humor are essential to a healthy life.
• Positive life changes will only be made by someone when they want to and when life circumstances are not in conflict.
• People are experts on themselves.
• Healthy Living Wessex will not dictate changes, but offer opportunities and choices around individual needs, helping people to achieve solutions that fit in with their lives.