🟦 Kendal & Western Dales Locality Learning Hub
Relationship Health and I Matter Informed Learning Hub
Discover how an understanding of Relationship Health can support individuals, families, professionals, and organisations to strengthen connection, reduce pressure, and improve collaboration across health, education, and community settings.
🟩 WHAT IS THE HUB?
The Kendal & Western Dales Relationship Health Learning Hub is a locality-based learning and development initiative bringing together:
- GP practices and Primary Care Networks
- Schools and early years settings
- Community and voluntary organisations
- Professionals working with children, families, and adults
- Parents and carers (via supported pathways)
It uses the I Matter Framework as a shared foundation for supporting more relational understanding, prevention, and early intervention.
🟨 WHY THE HUB EXISTS
This initiative supports a shift toward:
- earlier, shared relational understanding across services
- reduced reactive demand on frontline professionals
- improved consistency in how families are supported
- stronger collaboration between health, education, and community systems
- practical, real-world relationship health development
This is being developed through funded microprojects in Kendal and the Western Dales.
More Information about the Kendal Plus Hub
🟩 THREE WAYS TO ENGAGE
🧑⚕️ PROFESSIONAL PATHWAY
For practitioners working across health, education, and community settings.
Build confidence in relational understanding and practical application in everyday work.
What you can access:
- I Matter Introduction Learning
- Structured professional development pathways
- Reflective practice support
- Local peer learning opportunities
👉 Access Professional Learning Pathway - What is I Matter
👉 Join a Conversation or Apply to Join a Funded Pilot
🏫 ORGANISATIONAL PATHWAY (LICENSING & PARTNERSHIP)
For schools, GP practices, PCNs, and community organisations.
This pathway supports organisational embedding of relationship health approaches.
Includes:
- Organisational access to learning pathways
- Staff development routes
- Use of I Matter materials within settings
- Support for implementation and integration
- Participation in locality microprojects
👉 Explore Organisation Licensing & Partnership
🟦 PARENT CARER PERSONAL LEARNING
For parents and carers and individuals interested
- Preparation for parenting
- early intervention
- strengthening relationship health
- receovery of relationship health
- supporting children with additional needs
👉 Parents can access I Matter learning via self-funding, via locality hub microprojects or with independent practitioners
👉 Can you help improve the resource? Join a Conversation or apply to join a Funded Pilot
🟦 LOCALITY MICROPROJECTS (FUNDED PILOT DEVELOPMENT)
Kendal & Western Dales Microprojects are currently supporting:
- testing of supported parent access routes
- organisational engagement models
- development of sustainable locality learning systems
- refinement of delivery pathways across services
These are funded development pilots (Westmorland & Furness supported) shaping the future of the Hub.
Kendal Area Microprojects Western Dales Microprojects
🟨 HUB LEADERSHIP TEAM
Kendal Primary Care Network – I Matter Learning Hub Team
- Dr Ed Clarke – GP Clinical Director
- Dr Amy Lee – GP Lead, Kendal ICC
- Dr Cathy Betoin – Clinical Psychologist
- Jacqui Wilson – Social Prescriber
(Additional partner organisations included via locality development programme)
🟦 WHO WE ARE
Relationship Health Matters CIC
Stramongate House
53 Stramongate
Kendal
LA9 4BH
United Kingdom
Meet the Kendal Primary Care Network I Matter Learning Locality Hub Team
DR ED CLARKE
GP CLINICAL DIRECTOR
DR AMY LEE
GP LEAD KENDAL ICC
DR CATHY BETOIN
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
JACQUI WILSON
SOCIAL PRESCRIBER
53 Stramongate
Kendal
La94BH
United Kingdom
