This report intends to highlight Healthy Communities Collaborative community activity over the last twelve months.

The Sunderland HCC is targeting three wards across the City (St. Chads ward, St. Peters ward & the Hetton ward) encouraging earlier recognition and presentation of breast, bowel lung cancer in the identified local communities. These sites were chosen due to the combined high prevalence and mortality rates of bowel, breast & lung cancer in the areas. Three HCC teams of volunteers and health professionals are working at grassroots level in order to encourage local people to access their GP sooner with potential signs and symptoms of the three cancers in addition to advocating the importance of breast and bowel screening.