Healthy living
Stay fit and well with the help of our healthy living partnerships, designed to help you take care of yourself.
Feeling well is important but it is not always easy to make the time to look after yourself. Our services are here to help you focus on healthy living.
Healthy lifestyle clinic
We’ve joined with Healthy You to offer a free healthy lifestyle clinic which will enable you to get the support of a Health Trainer to help you to make lifestyle changes.
What can it help with?: You will get professional advice on healthy alcohol units, the calories in alcohol, tips on reducing consumption and healthy eating.
Where: Westwood Community Hub.
When: The Health Trainer is available every Monday between 1pm and 4pm.
Who can sign up?: Anyone looking to reduce their alcohol consumption and make healthy lifestyle changes.
Join the healthy lifestyle clinic
Stop smoking clinic
We’ve joined with Healthy You to offer a free stop smoking clinic. Come along to find out about the options available to help you to stop smoking for good, and learn about the 'Swap to Stop' scheme.
What can it help with?: You will get professional support to quit smoking for good.
Where: Westwood Community Hub.
When: Every Monday between 9.30amd and 12.30pm, starting 16 September 2024.
Who can sign up?: Anyone looking to give up smoking.
Lose weight
We’ve joined with Healthy You to offer a free Adult Weight Management Programme for people living with mental health challenges. We know that losing weight is not always easy - especially if you are living with poor mental health - but Healthy You is here to help.
What can it help with?: Face to face coaching, either online or in person, will help you to make healthy food choices and increase your activity levels.The most important reason to lose weight is to make you feel better. Being overweight or obese also puts you at higher risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes, cancer, or having a stroke or heart attack.
Where: Online or in person
When: 12 weeks, starting whenever you are ready.
Who can sign up?: To join the programme, you’ll need to have a BMI of over 25 (we can help you to work that out, if you don’t know) and be living with mental health challenges.
Join the weight management programme
Falls Clinic
We’ve joined with Healthy You to offer a free falls clinic for people over the age of 65.
What can it help with?: Find out if you are at risk of falling. You’ll receive a personalised plan and exercise programme to improve your strength and balance and reduce your risk of falling.
Where: South Bretton Family and Community Centre.
When: You can sign up at any time.
Who can sign up?: Anyone over the age of 65 who is worried about falling.