The 2018 awards coincided with the 30th anniversary of Belfast being designated as a World Health Organization healthy city and applications were open in four categories: Promoting Health Equity; Healthy Places; Healthy Living and Engaging for Change.
The Deputy Lord Mayor, Cllr Emmet McDonough-Brown, presented the awards to all the winners and highly commended projects and programmes.
Promoting Health Equity
This award highlights programmes and activities that aim to tackle inequalities in the city including addressing issues such as: socio-economic deprivation; fuel poverty; food poverty; the needs of vulnerable and marginalised groups; health promotion initiatives and tackling age or lifestyle related inequalities.
Winners:
Chinese Welfare Association – Bilingual Advocacy Project
Footprints Women’s Centre - The FEED Project (Food, Education, Empowerment, Debt Support)
Highly Commended:
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust – Northern Ireland New Entrants Service
Engaging for Change
This award focused on projects or initiatives that work directly with people to empower them to take control of improving their own health and wellbeing. Initiatives demonstrate the application of active engagement processes to involve and retain participants. They show how they make use of the assets that exist to improve health within the community and are likely to have involved collaboration or partnership approaches.
Winner:
The Odyssey Trust Company; Belfast Giants; Department for Communities; Include Youth – Odyssey Ice Academy
Highly Commended:
Lighthouse; Yeha; Belfast City Council; Belfast Health & Social Care Trust; West Belfast Suicide Awareness and Support; Extern; Urban Villages; Marrowbone Association – North Belfast CareZone
Public Health Agency; Belfast City Council; Belfast Health & Social Care Trust; Bryson Energy – Belfast Safer Homes
Healthy Places
This award is presented to a programme or initiative that has significantly contributed to supporting good health through creating supportive and healthy places for people.
Winner:
Groundwork NI – Meanwhile Garden
Highly Commended
Lagan Currachs – Rowing the Lagan
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust - Bwell
Healthy Living
This award recognises achievement in healthy living; leisure and sporting activities including dance; active and healthy travel including cycling and walking initiatives; volunteering; and heritage and environmental programmes.
Winner:
Jump Jiggle and Jive – Light Bulb
Highly Commended:
WISPA – Women in Sport & Physical Activity – Active Women