Local residents, the Growing Health team, partners from Raven Housing, First Community, Reigate & Banstead Borough council, Surrey County Council and others attended a listening event on Nailsworth Crescent estate in Merstham, which is recognised to be an area of marked health inequity, in the highest priority area for health inequalities across Surrey Heartlands.
The community members who attended identified housing improvements as one of the greatest opportunities for improving their health and wellbeing, together with improving their communal garden and support for young families. Following on from the Nailsworth Listening event, a mother and toddler group is being organised by local residents, with support from partners, and GHT seed funding has been secured to help get the group off the ground, while the other priorities are being addressed in parallel.
