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Introducing Upstream

UPSTREAM is a healthy living project that encourages stimulating creative and social activities for people’s well-being and lifelong independence.

Winner of the 2008 NICE Award for Shared Learning in Public Health (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), with a presentation on 'Enthusiasm for Life and Behaviour Change'.

Winner of the 2008 national competition for a photograph best representing how social enterprise transforms lives, run by the Social Enterprise Coalition and the Office of the Third Sector. Also Winner of the South West regional competition, run by RISE, the Regional Institute for Social Enterprise.

Welcome to our Website

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• UPSTREAM was started by local doctors who found that many people, at various stages in their lives, need only a helping hand to revive their interests and enjoyment of life.

• Upstream takes up the challenge to reduce inappropriate dependency on health and social care services, relieve depression, prolong active life, encourage people to improve their own health and well-being, build self-confidence and invigorate communities.

• Upstream’s success has been independently evaluated by The Peninsula Medical School and recognised by Government Departments, Local Authorities and the participants and professionals themselves.