Social Prescribing and Self-Care Colleagues from the new Community Wellbeing service will be in the Street from 2pm – 3.30pm tomorrow (Tuesday 17 April) to provide information about the recently established Tameside wide Social Prescribing and Self-Care service to all Jigsaw colleagues working with people living in Tameside neighbourhoods. Community Wellbeing is provided by Action Together with Active Tameside and ourselves. It represents a significant change in tackling poor health and wellbeing, shifting the emphasis from a traditional medical model to a community based approach, utilising neighbourhood based resource/services, volunteers and mentors to support Tameside residents in making positive improvements to lifestyle and taking more control over the responsibility for their own health. The session is an informal drop-in so please take the opportunity to meet the team, learn more about how they can help our customers and how we can best support them in achieving sustained health and wellbeing improvements across the borough. Contact Steve Moss for more information.
Fundraising gets physical! Dave, our coach for Bootcamp sessions in Leigh, has offered one block booking from the next cycle to help raise funds for our charity of the year ‘The Christie’. Congratulations to Holly Leese for winning the Prize Draw. Here’s Elliot, Dave’s son, drawing the winner! Dave generously donated the block booking and a free session, which helped raise a grand total of £47 for the Christie. Thank you to everybody who took part! The Boxing Bootcamp was started as part of our Healthy Living Weeks in November 2017. Since then, colleagues have been attending every Tuesday lunchtime. If you’d like a place on the bootcamp, please contact HR at Turner House.
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