​The Healthy Living Centre Alliance is an award-winning network of 28 community-led health improvement organisations based in areas of high health inequalities throughout the north of Ireland, both rural and urban. Healthy Living Centres are rooted in localities from Castlederg to Kilkeel and from Coleraine to South Armagh. They are a key driver in connecting people to services and linking the health and broader public sectors to working-class communities.

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The HLC Alliance greatly values our community development and assets-based approach to wellbeing and health. Its members thrive upon empowering people to take more control over their health, promoting an ethos of peer-led self-management for people with long-term conditions while offering a wrap-around approach to beneficiaries of its services, on the understanding that they may require or benefit from more than one programme or initiative over an extended period of time. The Alliance values collaboration with other sectors and organisations to help reach those most at risk and seldom heard.

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Advocating for their sector and their communities to politicians, commissioners, and leaders of government departments, the Healthy Living Centre Alliance is a network of grass-roots health improvement projects and advocates, willing and eager to play a greater, bottom-up role in transforming the health status of the people of the North of Ireland. Their principal objective is to help the people of the North of Ireland transform from a society that is over-reliant on health services to a more fully engaged, informed and confident society adept at self-managing many of its health conditions and preoccupations through a community development approach.  ​

Improving Health - Who are the Healthy Living Centre Alliance (hlcalliance.org)