The seed of the Lived Experience Collective Great Yarmouth germinated in 2018 through the culmination of working together to deliver our One Cup Programme – bringing communities together to better understand one another and to work towards reducing loneliness. This work was funded by the Norfolk Community Foundation.
In 2023, we developed our co-production strategy, and the Critical Moments Programme and the Brew Crew were launched. Our ambitions from our beginnings were to:-
Promote Recovery
Influence Change
Grow our Comunity
Learn and Share
Our Purpose
Let our voices be heard. Our Community holds the key to change. The Lived Experience Collective in Great Yarmouth developed through work supported by Herring House Trust.
Our Aims
We aim to inspire individuals, organisations, and systems to embrace co-production and ensure that people are at the centre of everything they do.
Our Training Credentials
We working alongside researchers, service providers (particularly those from housing, homelessness and drug and alcohol services), charities and healthcare providers – working together to improve lives
Our work in the community
In the year 2021, the Great Yarmouth Homeless Alliance initiated a project aimed at enhancing housing services through the active engagement of individuals with lived experiences of homelessness.
