Bolton's Community Champions

Who is a Community Champion?

Anybody can be a Community Champion! You don't need any fancy qualifications or even any experience at all. You just need to care about your local community and want to make a difference.

We want to help raise the health and wellbeing of Bolton residents by creating a network of Community Champions that may wish to share their newfound knowledge with their local community. This can be with individuals, family, friends, neighbours, work colleagues, etc. With no minimum commitment, this knowledge can be shared however you wish, as you go about your normal everyday life!

If you are passionate about helping people, have a positive can-do attitude and want to make a real difference in your community then you'd be perfect!

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What is a Community Champion?

Community Champions is a scheme set up in April 2021 to break down barriers and get important information into communities. All Champions will automatically be enrolled as a Civils Champion, but did you know we offer a variety of Community Champions roles, giving you the opportunity to choose topics that are of interest to you?

If you are interested in one or more of these roles, we can offer you free training and courses to support you in the community, but you are under no obligation to complete them.

Types of Champion

Civils Champion

A Civils Champion is someone who can get into the heart of their community and share important information to help people stay safe in preparing for and responding to local emergencies.

Examples of this were seen during the Covid-19 pandemic and local flooding emergencies.

Addiction Awareness
Champion

Understanding the impact that various forms of addiction can have - and championing local support to help people live healthier, happier lives (1.5 day mandatory training needs to be completed).

Ageing Well
Champion

Encourage and support older people in our community to live well independently, ensuring older people's voices are heard.

Mental Health
Champion

Mental health champions aren't expected to be experts in mental health, or to diagnose mental health problems. Instead, your role is to promote positive mental health and to signpost relevant support and help where appropriate.

Physical Health &
Physical Activity
Champion

Encourage communities to live a healthy and more active lifestyle.

Digital
Champion

Help others to develop their digital skills and understand the benefits of getting online.

Campaign
Champion

Receive regular online information to promote and distribute positive Health Campaigns, i.e. Cancer Awareness, Mental Health promotion, Stop Smoking month and Dry January.

I just listen to you, ask you few questions and signpost you to many amazing resources in the community"
Craig

My main aim as a community champion is to spread Education and help my people in need around the Bolton community
Naz

I am passionate about community and connecting people
Christina

I became a Community Champion to provide a positive role model for Single parents
Simon

Community Champion Pathway

Sign Up

To begin, you will need to sign up to the Community Champions programme.
Once you submit, you will receive a verification email that you will need to open and confirm your registration. Check your junk folder too as it can go in there.
You will then receive an email letting you know about the next available induction.

Induction

You will be invited to an in-person induction training course, in Bolton.
It will take approximately 3.5 hours and will cover some basic topics, The induction covers basic Health and Safety, Code of Conduct, and assistance on how to use your Champions Dashboard, including creating a profile.

Ongoing Learning

To help you obtain new skills that can be utilised within the community or lead to employment, we can offer you our package of free training and courses, including Accredited, one day courses through Bolton College.
In addition to this, you will have the opportunity to access over 140 short, online training courses with your free MeLearning license

Find your Community Champion

Simply click the area where you live on the map and find out who your Community Champions are.

Thank you for taking the time to sign up to be a Community Champion.

Your privacy is important to us - we will only use the data in this form to communicate with you.

By completing this form, you are informing us that you are interested in becoming a Community Champion and that your details will be added to our mailing list which will only be used for communications around the role of a Community Champion.

You will receive an email to verify your interest in joining. Please check your spam folder and add communitychampions@bolton.gov.uk to your contacts list to stop our emails being junked.

You can withdraw your consent at any time.

Please see our full Community Champions privacy notice. This can also be found at https://www.bolton.gov.uk/privacynotices.