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Living With and Beyond Cancer Community Event
The Living With and Beyond Cancer team are organising a health and wellbeing event at East Bedlington Community Centre. This is open to anyone who has had a cancer diagnosis (current or previous) and lives in the Northumberland area. You can also book an additional place for a friend, family member or carer. Your guest can attend sessions or enjoy a break in the on-site coffee shop.
The day will include the opportunity to find out what’s on in your local area, including groups, services and activities as well as the chance to try some of our fun, practical sessions for happiness and health.
Practical sessions (lasting 30 minutes to an hour) at the event include:
Men’s Sheds and Outdoor Projects – your chance to learn more about woodland walking, outdoor adventuring, wood carving using a shave horse, allotment projects and the local Men’s Sheds projects.
Talking Matters Northumberland – need a little help on how to get a good night’s sleep? Would you like to learn how to feel calmer or lift your mood? This session is packed full of top tips from the experts. A session guaranteed to get you feeling good.
FACT (Fighting All Cancers Together) – FACT is a North East based charity which has new bases in Bedlington and Whitley Bay. The heart of the work they do is to strengthen the network of support available in the area, and to make it easier to access support at a time when people least feel like looking for help. FACT offer direct support to those diagnosed with cancer, their family, carers and friends. They offer regular help, support and social opportunities for people going through the cancer journey.
Health Trainer Service – Bursting with nutritional goodness, this session is perfect for you if you’d like to learn more about making healthy lifestyle changes in a fun way. This session will talk you through how to make small changes that will improve your health and wellbeing and link you in with local activities. Our very own healthy lifestyle team will be ready to serve you up the very best knowledge on how to make healthy changes using tried and tested methods.
There will also be an opportunity to wander around our stalls and chat to organisations such as The Northumbria Cancer Patient and Carer Group, Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group, Support Planners, Family Gateway, Active Northumberland, Age UK Northumberland and many more. There will also be a number of Cancer Nurses Specialists’ available to chat to on the day.
Free parking is available and refreshments will be available during the day, including a lunchtime buffet.
Places can be booked via the following ways:
- Contact Tracy Bruce and Adam McGill on 01670 623863
- Email LivingWithAndBeyondCancer@nhct.nhs.uk (please highlight that you would like to book places for the event on 28 September in Northumberland)
- By directly booking tickets online at Eventbrite – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/northumbria-healthcare-nhs-foundation-trust-17599402441
Demand is expected to be high and will be allocated on a first-come-first served basis.
For more detailed information, please contact The Northumberland Living With and Beyond Team 01670 623863 or email LivingWithAndBeyondCancer@nhct.nhs.uk
Bellingham Show
We have our wellies ready for the Bellingham Show – we’ll be there with our Healthwatch Northumberland stand and bright green polo tops! This is a great opportunity for people living in rural locations in Northumberland to talk to us about their and their family’s experiences of health and social care. We’ll have lots of activities for children and giveaways – sign up to our newsletter or give us some feedback and you could get a fluffy pen or stress ball!
Entertainment at the show this year will include live bands, horses, sheep, terrier racing, children’s activities, good food, crafts, sheep, traditional games, wrestling, Northumbrian piping, beer tents, children’s rides, vintage vehicles, dog show, fell racing and a motocross stunt display team as the main attraction.
Ashington Family Fun Day
Enjoy a summer family fun day at Ashington Children’s Centre, with games, crafts and low cost activities and fun fair rides. No need to book in advance. Come and say hello to the Healthwatch Northumberland team who will be there with some health related fun activities and giveaways.
For more information contact Ashington Children’s Centre on: 01670 819988.
Bedlington Family Fun Day
Enjoy a summer family fun day at Bedlington Children’s Centre, with games, crafts and low cost activities and fun fair rides. No need to book in advance. Come and say hello to the Healthwatch Northumberland team who will be there with some health related fun activities and giveaways.
For more information contact Bedlington Children’s Centre on: 01670 822714.
NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Annual Public Meeting
Members of the public are invited to attend the NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Annual Public Meeting. The Annual Public Meeting will be held on Wednesday 27 June 2018 at 10.00am in Committee Room 1, County Hall, Morpeth.
This is an opportunity for local people to find out how the CCG has performed in the past year and how it plans to meet the needs of local communities in the future.
At the meeting the CCG will reflect on progress and achievements made in 2017/18 and will present its annual report and accounts. There will also be an opportunity for members of the public to ask the CCG’s Governing Body questions.
For more information on the Annual Public Meeting and to download a copy of the annual report and accounts (from 15 June 2018), please visit www.northumberlandccg.nhs.uk.
If you would like to attend or to submit any questions, please contact Melody Price on 01670 335185 or email melodyprice@nhs.net.
Elderberries Vintage Summer Party
Elderberries runs a range of activities for older people, from keeping active sessions such as pilates and a walking group, to tea dances and footcare. It offers monthly clinic café sessions in partnership with NHS that offer a range of informative talks and ad hoc opportunities for arts and culture sessions including music performances, silk painting sessions and memory sessions.
There is also the Elderberries Drop In, offered three times per week for over 55s to come and relax, chat and enjoy tea and cake and make new friends. This provides a valuable local facility for older people.
This vintage summer party will feature professional singing trio ‘Darling Dollies’ who specialise in 1940s close harmony singing, with a vintage vibe. The Riff Raff Ukelele Band will also perform.
Tickets are £7.50 and available from the garden reception. Please call 01665 511350 for more information.
MS Society Open Evening
Coming Together
The MS Society is holding a consultation session in Berwick for anyone affected by MS.
For more details please contact: sheila.greenwood@mssociety.org.uk.
Community Action Northumberland Spring Health Conference
Each year, Community Action Northumberland (CAN) organises a conference focusing on a critical issue facing rural Northumberland.
Two years ago the conference looked at deprivation in a rural context and last year attempted to dive into the complex issue of transport. This year the conference will focus on health – the key issues viewed from a strategic perspective and local solutions, both existing and potential. Health emerged from a 2017 national survey of rural residents as the issue of highest concern and is the subject of continuing debate at national and more local levels.
CAN president, Lord Curry of Kirkharkle, will chair the conference and there will be a range of speakers from Northumberland Public Health, Northumberland County Council and local initiatives as well short presentations from external speakers to initiate discussion on possible new approaches such as social prescribing – Healthwatch Northumberland’s Derry Nugent will be there presenting the results of our annual survey.
The conference will begin with a buffet lunch and include plenty of time for discussion. The venue is St Mary’s Hall at St Mary’s Park, Stannington – this is a new village hall venue, provided as part of the new housing development on this site.
Places at the conference are free and can be booked here.
Stepping into Spring – Prudhoe
This event is from Ageing Well in Northumberland is a chance to meet local communities and charities for older people. The aim is to help older people in the area find out more about staying active, involved and well, plus activities and volunteering opportunities in the area. Local organisations, including Healthwatch Northumberland, will be there with information stands, brimming with useful advice for local residents. MP Guy Opperman will be there to answer any questions and there will be complimentary tea and cake on offer.
This event is rescheduled from March.
For more information please email: karenquinn.guyopperman@gmail.com.
Stepping into Spring – Morpeth
The Stepping into Spring events from Ageing Well in Northumberland are a chance to have a cuppa and a chat and find out more
about staying active, involved and well in older age. You can also find out about local activities and volunteering opportunities that are happening near you.
For more information please email: alison.byard@morpeth-tc.gov.uk
Healthwatch Northumberland
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