Relationship Health: Locality Hubs: Kendal Hub

Relationship health matters — for those supporting others, and for those living family life day to day.

Welcome to the Kendal community hub for Relationship Health. This is the local entry point for professionals, families, and individuals who want to explore how Relationship Health supports adults, children, and whole communities.   

Across Kendal, parents, carers, and professionals are working hard to help children and young people thrive, often while managing uncertainty, pressure, and complex needs. Many people sense that relationships are central — but don’t always have shared language, confidence, or practical frameworks to draw on.

The Relationship Health: Kendal Hub offers a local pathway for adults to help strengthen understanding and skills for relationship health — in families, schools, health, and community settings. Working with Kendal Primary Care Network and local partners including Western Dales PCN, this approach supports learning that is reflective, practical, and grounded in everyday experience.

Whether you are supporting others in a professional role, caring for children and family members, or simply curious to understand more, this page is your starting point for engaging with relationship-health-informed learning in Kendal.

You are encouraged to express an interest here as this helps us understand your motivation.  However please be aware that funded places are limited and so all funded places are offered based on an invitation from a certified practitioner.  We have funding to support 50% bursaries for supported Fundamentals training for pastoral leads in Kendal schools and for families meeting criteria for early intervention (Band 2)

I Matter Training for Residents with a Kendal GP

Over the last 6 years work has been progressing in the Kendal area in partnership with the Kendal GP's and local schools.  We are proud to be developing thinking about relationship health practice in the community.  We run the first Relationship Health and I Matter Informed Service in the NHS and we are working with local organisations to progress access to early intervention psychoeducational pathway for parents and we are progressing the first local I Matter Community Wheel programme.    Our aim is to help adults and young people to understand more about how to help themselves and others overcome challenges with a relationship health approach.  We work in partnership with schools and other services