Health & Wellbeing Community & Social Justice 2025
Wellbeing Exeter (CoLab Exeter)

Annual Report 2024-25

Wellbeing Exeter is a city-wide partnership programme led by CoLab Exeter and delivered with Exeter City Community Trust and Exeter Community Initiatives, commissioned by Exeter City Council and Sport England. Founded in 2013, the programme uses an Asset-Based Community Development model to improve health and wellbeing in Exeter's most deprived neighbourhoods through community connecting, building, and physical activity, generating £1.95 million in social value.

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📋About

Community Connecting (one-to-one tailored wellbeing support via Community Connectors); Community Building (neighbourhood engagement, resident-led ideas and group development); Community Physical Activity Organiser (CPAO) programme integrating physical activity in clinical pathways; Network Coordination linking voluntary and public sector organisations; Enhanced Services from 2025 covering equality and diversity, leisure service partnership, employment support, and walking and cycling access

📊Key Metrics

Core programme cost £582,088 in 2024-25; CoLab Exeter total income £2,071,915 and total expenditure £1,991,068 (year ended 31 March 2025) Key Metric 1
357 referrals received in 2024-25; 1,289 signposts made to 232 organisations; 10,922 connections made by Community Builders Key Metric 2
Social value of £1,948,172 generated in 2023 (SROI); proportion of inactive participants classified as active rose from 30% to 43% across the programme Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 27% increase in positive family community relationships; loneliness scores reduced from 4.74 to 3.05 (Campaign to End Loneliness scale); 44% increase in young people paying attention to their feelings
  • Programme connected to 96% of 1,185 relevant organisations in Exeter; 2,948 new conversations and 577 new resident ideas generated by Community Builders; 391 resident ideas put into action
  • Physical activity outcomes: among participants hoping to become more active, inactive proportion fell from 55% to 39%; 128 walking sessions and 65 CPAO-run activities delivered in 2024-25

📍Geography

South West

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