Cornwall Post-Covid-19: What’s the Prescription for Sustainable Communities? Webinar 1 held on Friday 23 October 2020
Cornwall Post-Covid-19: What’s the Prescription for Sustainable Communities? Webinar 1 held on Friday 23 October 2020 With this introductory session, to initiate a debate on the future shape of Cornwall’s Communities and their ability to adapt to new circumstance that may prevail after the pandemic, we invite you to share your own thoughts and suggestions. […]
Cornwall post-Covid-19: What’s the prescription for sustainable communities
Cornwall post-Covid-19: What’s the prescription for sustainable communities Use our ‘hit’ word- EDEN! We invited guests to take part in a research webinar and to give us their comments and views as they learnt, with us, what the experts believe is the way to best deliver this area of healthcare. Following the session we asked […]
A way forward for Cornwall
Duchy Health Charity and Social Prescribing One man’s opinion on the way forward for Cornwall Introduction Perhaps it’s just as well that Duchy Health Charity’s (DHC) intended film launch and conference on social prescribing had to be abandoned (twice). Nobody could have expected the catastrophic and mind-bending changes that have taken place, and are in fact […]
‘Life will never be the same again’
THE STORY OF OUR OWN BBC ‘SPOTLIGHT’ COVID-19 EMERGENCY FUND APPEARANCE ON 26 MARCH 2020 Tim Guy, Trustee responsible for Communications and Public Affairs They say that life will never be the same post Covid-19 and charities have been particularly hard hit which means that they will continue to struggle, post virus, with depleted funds […]
Exhausted!
Our Covid-19 Disaster Fund is, as you can imagine, has been very much in demand and is exhausted. For now the Charity will continue to monitor applications and you will receive an acknowledgement from Carol or one of our Trustees. The Board will decide whether to allocate more funds so please watch this space. ‘Nerth’ […]
BBC Spotlight appearance hits the spot
BBC SPOTLIGHT APPEARANCE HITS THE ‘SPOT’. Our Trustee, Carol O’Brien, put out an appeal for Cornwall’s charities, suffering because of Covid -19, to approach us for support to help them through the present crisis. Within 2 days our Grants Committee had 18 requests and committed over £55k. To adhere to our criteria for provide funding […]
COVID-19 Calling those charities in severe need in Cornwall
At this very difficult time when your own charity is finding it hard to keep services running and funding from public support has all but disappeared we are able to give you an immediate financial help if you qualify for access to our funds and we have arranged how to speed up the grant application process […]
A Message from HRH The Prince of Wales to The Duchy Health Charity
Chair’s Report for the Duchy Health Charity AGM – 13 November 2023 Introduction The Trustees… READ MORE CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2021 ‘It has been a year like no other’ is the way I… READ MORE Competition Announcement for our Cornwall Young Persons’ Project Our Mission: to reach more Young People,… READ MORE
Latest news on the Conference entitled Social Prescribing: Profit for Patients & Practices
LATEST NEWS ON THE CONFERENCE ENTITLED SOCIAL PRESCRIBING: PROFIT FOR PATIENTS & PRACTICES CONFERENCE CANCELLATION: PROFIT FOR PATIENTS AND PRACTICES 27 MARCH 2020 All signed-up delegates will receive an email in the next few days to say that a pack will be sent to them to enable everyone to read the papers from our Speakers, […]
How we struck gold! World premier: ‘Changing the Script’
HOW WE STRUCK GOLD! WORLD PREMIER: ‘CHANGING THE SCRIPT’ A preview of our film commissioned to highlight Cornwall’s new Social Prescribing initiative was shown to the ‘actors’ and post production teams across county at the Plaza Truro on 1 February 2020. Doctors, paients and Surgery team members saw themselves for the first time ‘up big’ […]