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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. Every month, on the first or second Friday, we share relevant information, activities and resources to support your families 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.
The Young Tower Hamlets website is officially live!
The Young Tower Hamlets website brings together all of YTH’s services for young people in one place. Young Tower Hamlets (YTH) aims to empower young people aged 11 to 19 (year 6 to year 13) or up to 25 with SEND, to find their passion and place by offering:
- Incredible spaces and exceptional youth work
- Targeted support for vulnerable young people
- Over 100 free activities across youth centres
- Detached youth workers who offer support in the community
- Schemes for young people to share their voice
- A wide range of sports and outdoor education opportunities
Did you know that they also facilitate Outdoor and Adventurous activities?
Visit the Urban Adventure Base for a range of FREE outdoor education and adventurous activities for young people. Based in Mile End Park it has direct access to the Mile End BMX track, Skate Park and the Regent's Canal for canoeing and kayaking. There is a fully accessible gym on site too, Urban Gym, designed for young people with additional needs and disabilities. They also have rock-climbing walls and bouldering! All of the sessions include refreshments.
 Tower Hamlets launches its ‘I can be’ campaign
‘I can be’ is a campaign to inspire a new generation of community leaders by following in the footsteps of established community champions.
The emphasis is on Black, Asian and Multi-Ethnic (BAME) residents being the change they want to see. Influencing decision-making by becoming a community leader by:
- participating in voluntary roles such as applying to be a magistrate
- school governor
- being a health scrutiny lead
- police community support officer
- representing on boards that can influence decisions (as these roles are under-represented within the BAME community).
The 'I can be' campaign is part of the council’s approach to tackling race inequality in the borough. It has been designed to encourage and promote community leadership amongst our Black Asian and Multi Ethnic residents. The campaign focuses on working with local leaders as 'I can be campaign champions' to inspire our BAME residents to take up a community leadership role.
Have you heard of Leaders in Community?
Leaders in Community is a youth-led charity run by a group of active local young people from Tower Hamlets. Set up in 2009 by a group of young adults who wanted to improve their local services.
Help Tower Hamlets improve communication with young people
As you may be aware Tower Hamlets Council are trying to improve how our services communicate with young people.
We want young people to tell us what kind of platforms, messaging, formats and media work best for them and within different contexts. The borough ran a consultation workshop over the summer and has also produced a short survey.
Please could you encourage all young people you know to take part in the survey. (which also enters them into a voucher prize draw)
The image above is an e-flyer with a QR link embedded (you may need to zoom in), so that young people can scan and complete the survey. The findings will be shared with all services in Tower Hamlets so that we can all collectively improve our comms to young people.
Please share widely!
Save the Children – Youth Advisory Board Member volunteering opportunities
Save the Children are looking for youth advisors to join their Youth Advisory Board. Young people will be able to express their ideas and work together to help shape projects across Save the Children’s work in the UK. They will have the choice to take part in a range of unique experiences too. In the past, youth advisors have attended meetings with politicians, delivered speeches at events, engaged with media and featured in Save the Children campaign videos.
To maintain the diversity of their board and to make sure they are representing young people fairly, the board will be made up of a range of people from different backgrounds and experiences.
You can apply if you:
- Are aged 12-16
- Live in the UK. They particularly encourage you to apply if you live in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Midlands, and North of England
- They are particularly keen to receive applications from young people from working class and/or low-income backgrounds, as well as young people who are LGBTQ+, disabled, young people of colour, young carers, and refugees.
Please note: Unfortunately, you’re not able to apply if:
- You are already a member of a youth board for a large national charity
- You are related to a current member of the Youth Advisory Board
- One of your parents or close family members works for Save the Children or sits on the Board of Trustees
Mile End Parkrun - (family run)
What is Mile End parkrun?
A free, fun, friendly, weekly 5k community event. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate – it's up to you!
When is it?
Every Saturday at 9:00am.
Where is it?
The event takes place at Mile End Park. A link to the course and map is provided below.
What does it cost to join in?
Nothing - it's free! Please register before you first come along. Only ever register with Parkrun once and please don't forget to bring a scannable copy of your barcode. If you forget it, you won't get a time. Request a reminder of your barcode below.
Junior Parkrun
Are your children inspired and looking for more? A Junior Parkrun takes place every Sunday at 9.30 am outside Mile End Stadium. Click the links below for more information:
Free Cycling Club for girls and young women
Come and learn to cycle at your own pace from qualified instructors. Open to girls and young women aged 6 to 24 years. The club is for beginners only.
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When: Every Saturday, 10am-12pm
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Location: Tower Hamlets Cycling Club, Mile End Stadium, Rhodeswell Road, London, E14 7TW
For more information and to register please contact info@newark.org.uk or call 07958085480.
Bikeworks All-Ability Cycling Club
Bikeworks believes that cycling should be accessible and possible for everyone to enjoy. Their All-Ability Clubs are designed for people with physical, sensory or learning disabilities, people with health conditions and carers, to enjoy cycling by accessing an exciting range of adapted cycles. Including tricycles, side-by-side cycles, wheelchair-platform cycles and recumbents. The regular club sessions offer a social and friendly place to meet other people and their friendly and experienced team can provide advice on the right fit of cycles and any adaptations.
Who can come to the club?
The clubs are free to access for young people and adults. Carers, family members and friends are encouraged to ride and enjoy the experience too! One to one support is not available at the All Ability Club. People with complex needs must be accompanied by a friend, carer or support worker. If you are a group of more than four people please email: all.ability@bikeworks.org.uk.
Cost: Free to attend.
Location: Victoria Park. They set up at the Lock House Gate entrance to the Park, where Parnell Road meets Jodrell Road, E3 2LA. There is a café with toilets nearby. Nearest Car Park: St Marks Gate Car Park
Time: Every Wednesday from 9:30am – 1:30pm and alternate Saturdays from 10.00am – 12.00pm.
The Healthy Steps Programme - NHS
Healthy Steps is a FREE 8-week email programme from the NHS aimed at families with children aged 5-11. It encourages families to eat better, move more and provides practical ideas, whilst still being budget conscious. You can sign up at any time by completing a short quiz about your current eating and physical activity habits, once complete you will receive tailored emails on reducing sugar, eating 5-a-day and meal planning. Families can also set goals or tasks for themselves to support their progress.
Healthy Start – free healthy food and vitamins
If you have children between the ages of 0-4, you may be eligible to access money for healthy food and milk. Healthy Start has switched from paper vouchers to card that can be used in the same way as a bank card. If you used to receive Healthy Start vouchers, you’ll need to reapply.
If you’re pregnant or have a child under the age of four in Tower Hamlets, you can also collect free vitamins from a Children’s and Family Centre.
"You will not always be strong, but you can always be brave"
Simone Biles – with 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals she is considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time.
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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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