Maldon Livewell Partnership Development
Creating a healthier and happier Maldon
Strengthening system leadership and collaborative action to improve health and wellbeing in Maldon.
The Maldon Livewell Partnership Board continues to play a pivotal role in leading the district’s wider health and wellbeing agenda, with a shared focus on three core Livewell priorities: obesity and physical activity, mental health, and social isolation.
In 2025, Active Essex supported the Maldon Livewell Partnership Board through its role as Vice Chair, providing additional leadership capacity and strategic input. This support strengthened the board’s ability to connect partners, shape delivery, and maintain alignment with Maldon’s district priorities, ensuring a coordinated and responsive approach to improving outcomes for residents.
Active Essex played a key leadership role by acting as Vice Chair of the Maldon Livewell Partnership Board, supporting agenda setting, facilitating collaboration and ensuring physical activity and prevention remained central to district-wide discussions.
A key development supported by Active Essex was the evolution of the partnership’s subgroup into a task-focused working group. This smaller, more agile group of committed partners now meets regularly to progress a shared action plan, respond to emerging challenges, and maintain momentum between board meetings. This structure has enabled clearer accountability, more focused delivery, and more meaningful updates when the full partnership meets.
Active Essex also strengthened system alignment across Mid Essex, ensuring local work in Maldon connects into wider strategic priorities and learning.
The partnership involves several key organisations working together, including Active Essex, Maldon District Council, Social Prescribers, the Essex Child and Wellbeing Service and Maldon CVS. Through this collaboration, partners are increasingly using action learning approaches to share challenges, exchange insights and co-develop practical solutions. This shared learning has strengthened relationships and created a more connected network of organisations supporting the local community.
The work has also contributed to key Active Essex priorities through greater collective reach and ownership. Awareness of local funding, support offers and opportunities has increased through Maldon District Council and the Find Your Active Maldon network. Partners also feel more confident and empowered to share messages within their own communities, helping to amplify impact. As a result, there is stronger co‑ownership of the Livewell priorities and joint action planning across the district.
Key Learnings
It's important to take time to reflect and understand the learnings from work undertaken, to focus on ways to improve in the future.
Focused Delivery
Smaller, committed groups drive clearer, faster, accountable action.
Reflective Culture
Active Essex fostered openness, learning and confident shared problem‑solving.
Stronger Collaboration
Cultural shift enabled deeper relationships and better coordinated support.
Impact Activation
Next phase moves strategy into measurable community‑level delivery.
