We are introducing an approach to Local Plans and Health and Wellbeing Strategies that are designed by local authorities that centre community wealth building and the development of social capital through a health focused use of spatial assets.

The work explored how broader outcome measurement could accelerate retrofit delivery and support better policy, funding, and delivery decisions, particularly in a fiscally constrained environment.

This light-touch approach is designed to support community leaders work with speed to capture key insights about community health and the impacts that a policy, plan, or project may have.

When Southall residents starting falling ill due to what they suspected was carcinogenic chemicals in the air from a local factory redevelopment, local authorities reassured them any contamination was within safe levels. The Centric Lab team tell the story of their partnership with the community to reimagine the Health Impact Assessments used to define safe levels and ensure it reflected the lived experience of the local community. 

This Learning and Reflection piece looks at how systems thinking in context to the Determinants of Health can expand indicators and metrics on health so that they become more justice and lived experience led.

This Learning and Reflection piece looks at what happens when a bottom-up approach is taken to asking the question of what makes a healthy place?

This Learning and Reflection piece on the CHIA process discusses the role of governance and democracy. It contextualises the WHOs agenda of "democracy" through a lens of governance and distributed power in reference to the people of Southall's experience.

This piece documents the process that was taken in how we created our Community Health Impact Assessment. We've done this to show what journey we took in the aims of transparency and hopefully inspiration to others.

This piece documents the process that was taken in how we created our Community Health Impact Assessment. We've done this to show what journey we took in the aims of transparency and hopefully inspiration to others.

This justice-led toolkit is designed to support grassroots community groups co-producing a community informed Health Impact Assessment (HIA). This toolkit is designed to be used by grassroots organisations without the interference of domineering authorities. This is to give space and time for people to imagine a way something could be done, rather than being shoehorned into what’s permitted

This Community Informed Health Impact Assessment has been designed, reviewed, and consented by C.A.S.H. for use by others like us. It is intended to ensure that all considerations towards people’s health is taken when reviewing potential impacts as a result of construction or a new urban development. It has been designed in good faith to allow for effective, intentional, and important dialogues happen between communities like ours and those looking to make changes in our neighbourhoods.