Esther Walton
(she/her)Community Health and Wellbeing Worker
Everyone deserves a chance to not just survive, but to experience a fullness in their lives. Through good health, positive relationships, being part of a community, feeling self-confident, knowing that they matter, having a purpose and feeling joy.
Esther is a community resilience worker. Over the last two and a half years, Esther has worked in the community health and wellbeing world with a charity. She began by working with the most complex and vulnerable adults, supporting them to access health services, and helping them engage with their physical and health needs. Esther played a role in establishing the service in her locality, building strong relationships with the residents and community services. This was of key importance to Esther as she believes that holistic, wraparound support for individuals is the most effective support. Esther now works in low level mental health, supporting adults to set and achieve goals, overcoming barriers that stop them from living their lives to the full.
She would love to see long term systematic change in our society for those who the world so often forgets and ignores, and that is a big job. Often that feels unattainable and bigger than anything she could ever do. Yet, she always reminds herself that making someone a cup of tea the way you know they like it, listening to someone's story, giving people a chance to live a more fulfilling life, is no less important than changing the world. Without truly knowing what really needs to be changed, we can never enact effective and meaningful change. Change comes from the ground up. These people’s stories are the ones that should be around a table, changing the way things work.