Discover Local Support with the PCN’s Joy Market Place
Joy Market Place is a new online directory of local services designed to help you improve your overall health and well-being. It’s easy to use and allows you to browse a wide range of services, including social groups, friendship gatherings, care services, creative pastimes and groups and services for all age groups
Your guide to Health and Wellbeing service in Coventry
Joy Market Place is a service employed by the PCN to make it easier for community members to access support.
Joy can help you find support for issues such as anxiety, loneliness, housing, and finance. It connects you with fantastic free non-clinical services that can improve your overall health and well-being. These forms of services are all part of Social Prescribing!
We encourage you to explore Joy Market Place and discover the many services available to you. You can use the directory to self-refer to services or where appropriate get a referral from a health professional.
Why not check out all the services around your area through Joy. Click on the Joy Logo below to view the Joy Marketplace!
Some example services available are as follows (click the images to be redirected to their joy page):
Age UK
“We’re a local charity working in the community to support older people, their families and carers.
We want everyone to be able to love later life.”
Rise
Rise is Coventry and Warwickshire’s CAHMS service. It is a family of NHS-led services providing emotional wellbeing and mental health services for children and young people in Coventry and Warwickshire.
Panahghar
Panahghar provides free dedicated BAME multi lingual support, advice and advocacy and access to safe refuge for victims and their families of domestic abuse, sexual abuse or gendered abuse in Coventry and Leicester.
Coventry Haven Women’s Aid
To ensure the safety and empowerment of women and children who are subjected to Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) in any form” WE BELIEVE YOU. We do not judge.
If you or someone you know, whose family or partner is threatening them, controlling their behaviour or being violent, this is domestic abuse and we can help.
Rambling Club
We aim to provide a variety of walks: some long and more challenging, others short and easy: something for everyone, which leaves plenty of time for a chat and to make new friends. All walks are pre-planned and led by a leader who carries a first aid kit.
And much much more!
How do I get sign myself up for a service?
After choosing the service you would like to join or get help from, there should be two buttons on the right hand side, like the ones shown below:
Click Make a Referral if you would like to fill in their simple referral form, which all submissions get sent directly to the provider
Click Signpost to this service if you would like to receive or send a email with information regarding the service.
Remember, no account or registration is required!
I am a service provider, how do I get my service posted on Joy Marketplace?
If you are a service provider and would like your service to be listed in Joy Market Place, please contact the PCN.
Alternatively, Service Providers can follow the guide linked here.