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How it works · 2026/27

Our project plan

Each year the Community Connectors write a plan for the year ahead, built on what partners raise at the gatherings. Here's how that works, and what this year's plan sets out to do.

How project plans work

The Community Connector service is funded by NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). Every area, or lot, writes an annual project plan for it. South Lincoln is part of Lot 4, South Lincoln, so our plan covers South Lincoln Healthcare PCN: the villages south of Lincoln, from Swinderby to Metheringham and from Washingborough to Welbourn, plus a small part of south-east Lincoln.

Each plan sets out a shared picture of where the area wants to get to, at least three local priorities, and how each one helps with the everyday things that shape health, such as having friends and people around you, a secure home, and a job or something meaningful to do.

The priorities come from the gatherings: what partners say is getting in the way, and what they think would help. We report progress every three months, and what happens shows up in You said, we did.

  1. ListenPartners raise needs and gaps at the gatherings
  2. PlanThe most important ones become the year's priorities
  3. ActConnectors and partners work on them together
  4. Report backEvery three months, and in You said, we did

The lenses we use

Job, Home, Friend

A simple way of looking at what keeps people well, and the lens every priority in the plan is looked at through.

Job

Something meaningful to do: paid work where people want it, but also volunteering, learning, training and a routine.

Home

A safe, settled place to live, and the help to keep it: housing problems, repairs, debt and bills.

Friend

People around you: friendships, belonging and regular contact, so fewer people are lonely or cut off.

The six outcomes

The ICB asks every plan to show how its work lines up with six outcomes for mental health, dementia, learning disabilities and autism (MHDLDA). We count what we do; the outcomes themselves come about through the partners and services people are connected to, over a longer time, so we claim a contribution, not the credit.

  1. 1Fewer children and adults with mental ill health
  2. 2Fewer people in mental health crisis
  3. 3People as independent as possible
  4. 4More people with meaningful occupation
  5. 5Better quality of life
  6. 6More people living longer in good health

This year's plan · 2026/27 · written October 2026

Where we want to get to

We want fewer people in South Lincoln to feel isolated, especially older people without much family or friendship network nearby. Everyone should be going along to, or on the way to, at least one local group or event. When people feel connected, they start to share what is going on with their health, and can be put in touch with the people who can help. We hope this spreads from village to village, with communities looking after themselves and us supporting when needed.

Four priorities

  1. Gatherings that keep working between meetings

    Help partners find each other, share information and answer questions between gatherings, without every connection going through the Community Connector.

    In South Lincoln

    • A South Lincoln web page with a partner directory (partners choose whether to appear) and an optional way to message each other
    • Gatherings and email stay the main ways to keep in touch

  2. Connecting more people into local activities

    Help more isolated people, especially older people, into the Waddington Wellbeing Hub and village activities, and through that to services that can help.

    In South Lincoln

    • Friend: rebuild and relaunch the Thursday drop-in at Redwood Drive, Waddington
    • Job: a volunteering drive, starting through the hub and then village groups
    • Home: make sure people know about help with warm, affordable homes
    • Support what already works in the villages, particularly in Withamside, on communities' own terms

  3. Military families and veterans

    Better connect families who live away from the base, and veterans, with local support around Waddington. This is at an early, listening stage.

    In South Lincoln

    • Work with North Kesteven District Council's Armed Forces Covenant Officer on how to reach families around RAF Waddington
    • A plain-language description of the Community Connector role for the family handbook

Help shape next year's plan

The best way is to come along to a gathering and say what you're seeing locally.

See meeting dates