Helping our Communities to Thrive

We believe everyone should be equally able to live a healthy, happy life. We also know that access to high quality health care alone does not guarantee that for everyone. Healthy, happy people have access to skills and education, good quality employment, access to green space and clean air and social connection.

There are over 120,000 Essex residents living in the 20% most deprived areas of the UK and, as the only statutory organisation operating across Greater Essex (and beyond), EPUT has an important role to play in changing that. One of EPUT’s strategic objectives is to help our communities thrive, and we  have put in place a proactive partnership of colleagues from across the Trust and our communities to ensure that we act upon this objective. We also have a dedicated team, Enable East, who’s focus is to secure grant funding to deliver programmes with local communities to help make positive changes in a myriad of ways.

That is why we are aiming to develop the way we operate to offer good quality employment to local people, make our services as green as possible, make our land and buildings into community assets and work more closely with local charities to help them maximise their impact.

Whilst our approach is to “start small and think big” we are building on Enable East’s track record of delivering grant funded programmes, working with more than 250,000 people in communities across the East of England over the past 15 years, offering employment support, skills development and wellbeing and resilience interventions.