Impact Review 2024-25: SHINE HIT

Addressing health impacts of damp, mould and fuel poverty

Bristol One City have created and piloted a Damp and Mould toolkit, supported by SHINE HIT. It helps health, care and community organisation staff to identify and refer people for damp, mould, or fuel poverty issues that may be harming people’s health.

The project has attracted interest from across the BNSSG system, particularly those who work with deprived communities that often have worse health outcomes.

Creating better environments for health and well-being

SHINE hosted a stakeholder event with UWE’s Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing, in January 2025, focusing on creating better environments for health and well-being. 59 attendees covered topics such as livable neighbourhoods and streets, housing, biodiversity and nature recovery, green social prescribing, community assets, sustainability practice and policy and future workforce development. The event also facilitated group work which fed into the Mental health Development Group application.

Exploring parks access needs

Supported by SHINE, Your Parks was awarded Heritage Lottery Funding to explore the reasons why ethnically diverse communities in the Barton Hill area of Bristol are reluctant to access local parks. The research, by Zina Abdulla at the University of Bath, is now complete, with HIT members having made introductions to key groups and leaders in equality, diversity and inclusion locally.

Welcoming new public contributor

Zoe Banks Gross, who has had a long-standing professional involvement with SHINE, has now joined as a public contributor. Zoe brings expertise in active travel, healthy places and social justice, and the HIT is delighted to welcome her lived experience input.

Funding enabled in 2024-25

SHINE HIT helped secure £247,976 in 2024-25 for projects to generate research evidence, improve outcomes and address health inequalities in the region.