Community-based support
Social relationships have value.
Investing in interventions that build and strengthen networks of social relationships increases the social value that is shared by people in the community, leading to improvements in wellbeing.
Social Prescribing Link Workers
SPLWs provide an important bridge between services, the local community and voluntary sector, individuals, and mutual aid groups. They spend time talking to people and finding out what matters to them and how they want to interact with and participate in their local communities.
Connect to Support Lincolnshire 
Connect to Support is an online information and advice library, community directory, and marketplace for adults in Lincolnshire. It has directories of local groups, activities, and services within communities, and listings of community venues, buildings, and facilities.
H.A.Y Lincolnshire is an online directory focussed on supporting and improving mental health and wellbeing. It has over 600 local groups, support services, educational courses, and self-help resources listed to help people take care of their mental health.
Night Light Cafés are safe spaces that offer an out-of-hours, non-clinical support service and are staffed by teams of trained volunteers who are available to listen. They are free services and can provide advice on other organisations that may be able to help with specific needs.
Wellbeing Hubs provide mental health support, and are supported by Community Connectors, who provide confidential, free advice to help you. At these hubs, you can visit to take up a new hobby, help reduce your loneliness, or get some help with mental health.
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Partnership 
LCVP is an organisation that provides support to the community and voluntary sector across Lincolnshire, creating a brighter future for the community and the world. They also help to connect volunteers with opportunities.
Shine is a health and wellbeing charity that helps to strengthen communities and ensure that everyone has the support that they need. They work to connect people and communities by promoting health, wellbeing, independence, and choice.
Lincolnshire Voluntary Engagement Team
LVET is a collection of voluntary, community, faith-based and social enterprise organisations across Lincolnshire. They focus on improving health, care and wellbeing in the community, and their mission is to enable voluntary organisations to deliver a range of health, care and wellbeing services.
Lincolnshire Community Foundation
LCF is a foundation that aims to improve the lives and wellbeing of people throughout Greater Lincolnshire. They promote cohesive communities, hoping to lead to a better quality of life and equality of opportunities for all.
Wellbeing Lincs is a service that helps to improve confidence in adults all across Lincolnshire, in order to help them live independently and deal with changes in life.
Let’s Move Lincolnshire is an online directory that features a range of activity options around Lincolnshire, so that people can find suitable activities near them. It supports everyone to be more active and aims to help everyone find a way to be active that works for them.
Active Lincolnshire is an online service that aims to improve the lives of people living in Lincolnshire through physical activity, wishing to create the conditions for a more active local population, and encouraging everyone to be active.
