Community Asset Mapping

CVST, Healthwatch Essex, and Community360 teamed up with the North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance to create a series of reports that explore what helps, and what doesn’t, when people try to access services. These “deep dive” reports look closely at different stages of life, from childhood to older age and concentrated on the health conditions that are most prevalent locally.

Many people and organisations in Tendring shared their time and knowledge to help create these reports and their support is hugely appreciated.

Community Asset Mapping is all about finding out what makes our local areas great – the people, places, groups, and services that help everyone live happier, healthier lives. Since 2019, these reports have helped the health and social care system understand what communities in North East Essex really need and what already works well.

In the Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) model, assets are the things that make a community strong, such as:

By understanding these assets, local leaders can make better decisions about service design and delivery and can work better with voluntary and community groups and organisation, and plan funding around assets that can help people.

The goal is simple: Work with communities, not do things to them. By learning what’s strong and what needs support, we can help everyone “live well locally.” This means making sure services are easier to reach, communities feel connected, and people have what they need to stay healthy. 

The full range of reports are available here: