About the Alliance
The Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Alliance (HW Alliance) has been established to:
- Facilitate integrated working between the voluntary and statutory sectors
- Support a two way flow of information between communities, the VCSE sector and policy leads
- Amplify the voice of the VCSE sector and people with lived experience to inform national policy
- Facilitate co-produced solutions to promote equality and reduce health inequalities
The HW Alliance is jointly managed by the Department of Health (DH), Public Health England (PHE) and NHS England and is made up of 21 VCSE Members that represent communities who share protected characteristics or that experience health inequalities. Through their networks HW Alliance Members can link with communities and VCSE organisations across England. Individuals and VCSE organisations who would like to share their experiences and ideas with NHS England, DH and PHE can do so via HW Alliance Members.
The members of the Alliance are:
- Age UK
- Complex Needs Consortium (The National Autistic Society, Sense, VoiceAbility)
- Carers Partnership (Carers UK and Carers Trust)
- Citizen’s Advice
- Clinks and Nacro (criminal justice)
- End of Life Care Consortium (Hospice UK, Marie Curie, Together for Short Lives)
- Faith Action
- Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT)
- Homeless Link
- Maternity Action
- Men’s Health Forum
- Mental Health Consortia (the Association of Mental Health Providers, formerly MHPF, leads the Mental Health Consortia of Mental Health Foundation, Centre for Mental Health, Rethink Mental Illness, Mind and NSUN)
- National LGB&T Partnership (combines the expertise of eleven key LGB&T organisations across England)
- National Voices (coalition of charities that want person-centred health and care)
- NAVCA (the national membership charity for local infrastructure)
- NCVO (represents over 12,500 member organisations, a third of the voluntary sector workforce in England)
- Race Equality Foundation
- UK Health Forum (a charitable alliance of professional and public interest organisations working to reduce the risk of avoidable non-communicable diseases)
- Young People’s Health Partnership (a partnership of six organisations representing the interests of those aged 10-25)
- The Valuing People Alliance (a coaltion of BILD, NDTi and LDE working closely with Children’s Burns Foundation, Respond, Paradigm-UK and other VCSE organisations committed to improving the health and well-being of people with learning disabilities)
- Win-Win Alliance (user-led organisations of disabled people and 'service users' including Disability Rights UK, Shaping Our Lives, CHANGE and the National Survivor and User Network)
Our role in the Alliance
The Alliance members represent different interest groups, particularly as regards health inequalities. We support men's health in England, Wales and Scotland working in partnership with other organisations that share or support our aims, particularly that of reducing health inequalities as they affect men.
Whether you are a man from an organisation that supports or represents men, or just interested in how you or your organisation can do more to support men, we want to hear from you. Please complete the form below.