Livewell Foundation

The Livewell Foundation, established as the charitable arm of a pioneering social enterprise in health and social care, drives transformational impact on physical and mental health, wellbeing, and quality of life by preventing ill health and combating social isolation among disadvantaged communities. Rooted in values of openness, accountability, integrity, and community engagement, it champions a mission-led philosophy that channels resources into local needs, prioritizing measurable, enduring change through early intervention, prevention, and community empowerment. Funding decisions emphasize collaborative learning, evidence-based outcomes, and partnerships with grassroots groups and charities demonstrating deep community insight and sustained positive impact via holistic, person-centred approaches.

It prioritizes children's mental health through youth programmes offering counselling, therapeutic activities, peer support groups, and early intervention for anxiety, depression, and emotional regulation; women's health initiatives including wellbeing projects, advocacy, and holistic support addressing reproductive health, menopause, and chronic conditions; and aid for people with long-term conditions via equipment, outreach, day services, and amenities enhancing independence beyond statutory provision. Funded activities tackle mental ill health, physical disabilities, complex health needs, bereavement services, isolated elderly befriending and loneliness reduction through community-led groups, disability access improvements, health promotion programmes, creative arts therapy, outdoor activities, and preventative measures against disadvantage, serving children, young people, women, families caring for those with chronic issues, marginalised adults, and rural isolated individuals via trauma-informed, inclusive interventions fostering resilience and social connection.

Exclusions encompass statutory NHS replacements, non-local national projects, and initiatives lacking safeguarding, impact measurement, or community benefit evidence. Distinctive for its hyper-local South West focus on health inequalities in coastal and rural at-risk communities, it uniquely blends preventative and remedial strategies, supports grassroots innovation with lived experience leadership, and demands person-centred, evidence-based practice prioritizing children with mental health needs, women facing health barriers, long-term condition sufferers, and socially isolated elderly over generic services.