Mearns And Coastal Healthy Living Network

About

Supporting the health & wellbeing of the over 50s in Kincardine & Mearns, Mearns and Coastal Healthy Living Network is a community-led charity that engages some 200 people a week via a 100-strong volunteer network, supported by a small staff team. Primarily, we are a peer-to-peer organisation – it’s older people supporting older people. Our main aims are to support older people to live as independently at home as possible for longer, combat the effects of loneliness and isolation, improve mental & physical health & wellbeing and work against exclusions & inequalities. As well as facilitating over 590 social groups, and activities annually, MCHLN provides a heavily subsidised door-to-door transport service to aid attendance at healthcare and other appointments benefitting wellbeing, a much-needed shopping service, and a gardening service. Our activities and services are focused on the things that older people tell us matter to them, and which make a difference to their lives.

Where we work