Championing Positive Wellbeing in Kent video transcript
Transcript for the video on the Positive wellbeing page.
Video starts with scenes of bad weather to the sounds of thunder crashing and light piano music.
A Positive Wellbeing service user appears sat in front of the camera. As she speaks, short clips of Community Connectors are shown walking into the scene and smiling to the camera. Voices narrate over the clips.
Service user: It’s horrible being lonely and living on your own. Talking to people, it makes a lot of difference, to have somebody to talk to.
Community Connector (Neil): There’s a lot of people out there that are lonely, that are isolated. I feel like they’re from my communities, they’re my people.
Clips continue to play showing the Community Connectors. The video then shows a VCSE volunteer sat in front of the camera.
VCSE volunteer: We’re actually designed to be together; we’re designed to be in a community with each other, have those conversations, have those interactions and it does us good to have that time with people.
Another Positive Wellbeing service user appears in front of the camera, as he speaks, clips of Positive Wellbeing service users at various groups and events appear on screen. The service users are happy and appear engaged in what they are doing.
Service user: This kind of project is ideal to try and get people to meet other people and talk about all sort of things.
Beccy Law, manager of the Positive Wellbeing service, appears on screen to speak. As Beccy speaks, scenes of service users interacting with the Positive Wellbeing service continue to play, intermittently panning back to Beccy.
[Caption] More and more people are becoming disconnected from their friends, families, and support networks.
Beccy Law: More and more people are becoming disconnected from their friends, families, and support networks. Our Community Connectors have been trained and supported, and provided with the tools they need to identify people in the community and give them the support that they need to reconnect.
Matt Marciniak, Social Prescribing Development Officer for the Positive Wellbeing service, appears on screen to speak.
Matt Marciniak: We work with residents who struggle with isolation, loneliness as well. We come up with an action plan that we can easily implement into their everyday lives, changes they can make, perhaps some goals together that we can come up with, and we introduce them to communities.
Scenes of services users interacting with Positive Wellbeing continue to play.
Service user: Covid put us all in fear of catching something, and not mixing with other people. For a long time it was sort of, quite a bit of isolation. Being clinically extremely vulnerable, I was one of the last people who wanted to go near anyone. With this Kent County Council Community Connectors coming along and introducing me to this, it’s nice to sort of actually get back out again.
Further scenes of service users enjoying the Positive Wellbeing service are shown; many are smiling and laughing with each other or with a Community Connector.
Beccy Law: The feedback from our service users has been overwhelming. All of them have said what a different, a positive difference it has made to their lives, and they would highly recommend it to others. They liked how easy it was to get in touch with us, they like the fact the Connectors came to their home, they valued the relationships the Connectors had with them, and the interest they took in them. But also, more importantly, the power they felt it gave back to them.
A clip of men from Minster Men’s Shed is shown, the men are lined up in front of the shed, waving and cheering at the camera with Community Connectors Alison and Karl.
The service user from the beginning of the video reappears on screen. As she speaks, clips from the Positive Wellbeing cooking class are shown. Service users are seen laughing together as they engage with the class.
Service user: Oh yes, it makes a difference if you can get out. It does, you really think you’re at home on your own, nobody to talk to. You go out, and it’s nice! The community. You can talk to people.
Clips of Community Connector’s walking in front of the camera play.
Community Connector (Dave): When you’re working with clients, as a Community Connector, you see the difference it makes. They’re smiling and they’re happy.
Community Connector (Karl): We get to help people, we see the full extent of that help. You see the journey they go on, and the change you make for them.
Community Connector (Alison): It gives me a real job satisfaction. It gives me a purpose, I go home at the end of the day and I feel, yeah, I’ve enjoyed today, it’s been worthwhile.
Service user: Kent County Councils’ Community Connectors have opened by eyes, there’s a lot more things in the community that I can go to.
VCSE Volunteer: I think the KCC Community Connectors are really crucial to be able to link up those in the community that are isolated.
Service user: I feel more confident in actually going to events in the community. It’s helped me a lot.
Community Connector (Dave): I’ve made a difference to someone’s life. And that, to me, is really important.
The scene returns to Beccy stood in front of the camera.
Beccy Law: Social isolation is something that can affect us all at any point in our lives. It’s something that we need to address, that needs to be tackled, that needs to be identified. Positive Wellbeing is one service that aims to do this. It aims to support people to live better and live well, and re-engage and re-connect with their communities.
Title card: Call: 03000 41 34 55. Email: community.wardens@kent.gov.uk Website: Kent.gov.uk/communitywardens
The video ends.