 Five Ways to Wellbeing is now in its fourth week. Across five weeks, it highlights five simple steps you can take to feel better as we head into the winter months.
The theme for this week (24-30 November) is Take Notice and the Council is running its popular photography competition. When you enter, you’ll be in with a chance of winning Amazon vouchers. The top three entries will win £50 vouchers and four runners up will receive £25.
To enter, just email your photograph of anything in Hounslow, along with your full name and a few words about why you’ve chosen this particular subject, to the Communications team by the end of Sunday, 30 November. Please use the subject “Five ways photo competition”.
Check the Five Ways to Wellbeing webpage for a list of more great local organisations that can help you take notice.
 Following the success of the recent fever workshop, the Hounslow Health Visiting Team is launching free monthly online sessions to help parents confidently manage common childhood illnesses.
They will take place on the first Tuesday of every month, starting from Tuesday, 2 December from 10:30-11:30am.
Each session covers practical ‘dos and don’ts,’ when to care at home and when to seek medical help.
You can also get trusted NHS guidance on young children's illnesses on the Healthier Together website.
 If you rent privately and have issues with damp and mould in your home, the West London Alliance's Healthier Homes Project can help.
It has a directory of support for private landlords and tenants in Hounslow where you can find the support you need to keep your home safe and dry.
This is important for everyone, but especially if you have children with a respiratory condition.
 Our South Asian residents are at higher risk of flu than other ethnic groups and are more likely to experience severe complications from the illness.
Getting vaccinated can prevent you and others from becoming seriously ill and needing hospital treatment if you get Covid or flu.
You will also be helping to slow the spread of these viruses throughout your wider community, which will help to protect elderly and vulnerable people, including family members who live with you and who you may look after.
Head to Healthwatch Hounslow to find out how you can get vaccinated this winter.
 To help with rising energy costs as the cold weather starts to bite, Hounslow Council is putting on free indoor activities and warm spaces.
Council libraries, family hubs and leisure centres, alongside organisations like Cranford College and Holy Trinity Church, will be hosting free activities that people can enjoy while staying out of the cold.
 Are you a frontline worker supporting asylum seekers? If so, you can sign yourself and them up for Signpost, a free wellbeing email service from ThriveLDN.
It offers a flow of helpful, important and supportive information. Subscribe today to receive regular, clear and easy to understand advice.
 To help raise awareness of the free and confidential contraception services available to women across the borough, Sexual Health Hounslow (SHH) and the Council have launched a new campaign called Know Your Options.
The campaign aims to raise awareness of the range of contraception methods for women through five short videos featuring SHH’s clinical staff, who share expert advice on the different options available.
The videos and further information about local contraception services can be found on the NHS website.
 Hounslow’s Health Outreach Team (HOT) will be on the road in the next few weeks offering free flu and Covid vaccinations to all eligible residents.
The last date they'll be offering the roving vaccinations is Thursday, 11 December:
- Saturday, 29 November – Ludlow Road, Feltham, TW13 7JE – 10am to 1pm
- Wednesday, 3 December – Alice Way Gurdwara – 10am to 1pm
- Thursday, 4 December – Shewise Community Centre, Convent Way, Hounslow, Southall UB2 5UG – 10am to 12.30pm
- Friday, 5 December – Brentford Library, 11F Boston Manor Rd, TW8 8DW – 10am to 2pm
- Thursday, 11 December – Ivy Bridgelink Centre, Summerwood Rd, Isleworth TW7 7QR – 11am to 1pm
 To mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Hounslow residents are invited to an event that will be held on Thursday, 4 December at Holy Trinity Church on Hounslow High Street.
The event will outline how the Council is striving to make Hounslow a fairer, more equal borough. It will also include advice on the new benefit changes coming into effect and the potential impact on disabled residents who live in the borough.
 Hounslow residents are invited to celebrate 10 years of women's wellbeing charity SHEWISE on Thursday, 27 November. The event will be held at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith from 2pm to 5pm.
Over the past decade, SHEWISE has empowered Hounslow women to understand what affects their health, strengthened communities, and built partnerships that have made a lasting impact.
There will be inspirational speakers, networking opportunities and a chance to reflect on a decade of inspiring women across West London.
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