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The Healthy Lives Team Families update contains helpful information and activities for your whole school community
This is the FAMILIES newsletter from The Healthy Lives Team. Each Friday we share relevant information, activities and resources to support your ongoing health and wellbeing.
The HEALTHY LIVES TEAM supports schools, pupils and families with everything to do with health and wellbeing. We want to help you to live fitter, healthier and happier lives.
We now have a Healthy Lives Team webpage where you can find out more about the team and access Healthy Schools resources and all our archived newsletters.
 Acorn Community Football Club – Mile End Park
Acorn FC is a Charter Standard football Club affiliated with the London FA, Essex FA and the Sports Council. The club not only offers high quality football and fitness coaching, but they are a community club, which focuses on mentoring and educating young people, so that they build better lives. Their programmes promote diversity, equality and social inclusion to help bring the community together. Their overall aim is to use football as a platform to improve employment outcomes for participants living in child poverty or children living with out-of-work families.
The club offers:
- FA Level 1 & 2 Qualified coaches, DBS/CRB checked
- Cup competitions entry to 5, 7 & 11-a-side tournaments (at management discretion)
- Training on synthetic pitches (e.g. Astro turf/new generation pitches)
- Scouting Opportunities – Trials
Training sessions in Tower Hamlets:
- Juniors U13′ s & U14’s - Friday evening 5:00pm – 7:00pm
- U10’S, U11’s & U12’s - Saturday morning 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location:
Mile End Park Leisure Centre & Stadium
Burdett Road, Mile End , London, E3 4HL Tel: 0208 709 4420 ext 4455
Club details:
Email: acornfc@aol.co.uk
Tel : 0795 668 0029
Women’s Move and Stretch Classes - at Bow Community Hub every Wednesday
A women’s only Move and Stretch programme is being delivered at Bow Community Hub on Wednesdays. The session is open to women aged 18 and over from diverse ethnic backgrounds living, working and studying in Tower Hamlets. Sessions will improve fitness and activity levels at the weekly in-person group exercise class, led by qualified fitness instructor Laura Williams.
Location:
Bow Community Hub
Jefferson Plaza
London
E3 3QE
Session time: Wednesdays at 12:00 - 2pm
Cost:
The session is Free - online registration and Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) Form is required for enrolment and you will need to email Laura Williams before attending.
Email:
Contact the programme organiser
Laura Williams at, hello@trappedinzoneone.com
 New Healthy Start Video – Featuring Tower Hamlets residents
Healthy start helps families claiming certain benefits to buy healthy food and milk from the 10th week of pregnancy until the child’s 4th birthday. If you are under 18 and pregnant, you are automatically eligible, regardless of your benefit status.
You are sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in supermarkets and other grocery stores to buy healthy food, milk or first infant formula. The card is topped up every 4 weeks. In Tower Hamlets, all children under the age of 4 and all pregnant and breastfeeding women and up to 1 year post-natal are eligible for free Healthy Start vitamins.
Find out more at www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/healthystart or speak to your local Children's Family Centre.
A new video which features Tower Hamlets residents has been created by the council, please watch and share with friends and family:
 Free Men’s Gardening for Wellbeing Group
Mudchute Farm and East London NHS Foundation Trust run a free men's gardening for wellbeing group, which is aimed at Bengali and Somali speaking men only. They have a purpose-built gardening space, which provides lots of opportunities to enjoy nature and to practice your gardening skills, with support from their trained gardening professionals.
When: Wednesdays 11:00am – 1pm
Where: Mudchute Farm, Pier Street, London, E14 3HP
Just turn up, no need to book
If you prefer, you can email or phone the organisers to find out more: Email elft.thrc@nhs.net or phone: 0207 426 2332
 Disability Multi-Sports Club - Mile End Park Leisure Centre
The Community Sports Club in Tower Hamlets is a multi-Sports Club open to disabled children aged 8-16. All disabilities and impairments are welcome. Sessions are designed to help young people get fitter, socialise and have fun! The coach is highly motivated and experienced in a range of sports. Local community groups are welcome to bring as many members as they wish to the session. Siblings are welcome too! Featured sports including basketball and boccia, plus specialist taster sessions such as boxing, dance, golf and much more!
When: Wednesdays from 4:30pm to 6pm (Term time only)
Where: Mile End Park Leisure Centre
 Discover 10 ways to connect with others through nature – Children’s mental health activities, with RHS School Gardening
- Grow pea shoots
- Display some of the plants you are growing [at home or in school]
- Go on a sensory scavenger hunt
- Take part in a nature-inspired discussion about natural materials
- Make nature art in the garden, park or home
- Plant seeds or undertake plant projects with friends and family
- Grow Microgreens
- Draw a sound map to tune into nature sounds of different birds, insects, trees and weather patterns
- Write a garden or gardening diary
- Grow extra seedlings to share as gifts
 Foraging with Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Kenneth Greenway, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Manager, and Come Dine With Me winner, introduces us to the fascinating world of foraging – The video covers edible and or medicinal plants that include Dandelion, Daisy, Nettles, Lemon Balm and Perennial Wall Rocket. He shares his knowledge and even some recipe suggestions!
If the video inspired you, you will be pleased to know that there are various dates throughout the year for organised Wild Food/Foraging Walks with Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. March is now fully booked, so the next available date is Saturday 15th April 2023, with availability between May – December 2023. Follow the link below to book your place:
 Kooth free online mental health and wellbeing service in Tower Hamlets - New Video and resources for Parents and Carers
Kooth is a free online mental health and wellbeing service available to all young people in Tower Hamlets aged 11-25. It is a self-referral service, where young people have access to fully-qualified online counsellors until 10 pm every single day of the year. There is also a range of other support including an online interactive magazine, discussion boards, self-help tools, and wellbeing activities. A new video for parents and carers has been produced, as well as a range of parent and carer resources, please follow the links below.
"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure."
Sir David Attenborough
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The Healthy Lives Team
The Healthy Lives Team want to support you with all aspects of health and wellbeing. We will be sending you regular newsletters that will be relevant whether you are at school, work, or at home.
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We are incredibly proud in Tower Hamlets to have supported schools to gain more Healthy Schools awards than any other borough in London. So please use this newsletter in whatever way suits you best to stay as fit and healthy as possible.
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Take care,
The Healthy Lives team at London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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