Healthy Hub North Herts

Join Positive Movement by the Sadie Centre! Award-winning gentle exercises combining Adaptive Yoga, the Alexander Technique, and Mindfulness. For those 60+ with mobility issues or long-term conditions. Enjoy exercise and social time over tea! There are four locations in North Herts to choose from:

🗓️ Fridays from 6 September
🕥10.30am -12pm
📍St Thomas Church Hall, Letchworth, SG6 4DU

🗓️ Mondays from 9 Sept
🕥2pm to 3.30pm
📍Simpson Drive, Baldock, Herts, SG7 6DH

🗓️ Tuesdays from 10 Sept
🕥2- 3.30pm
📍The Sadie Centre, Letchworth, SG6 3NA

🗓️ Thursdays from 26 Sept
🕥2- 3.30pm
📍St Martin's Parish Centre, Knebworth, SG3 6ER

Book your space call: 01462 410893/678804 or email Clare Chambers at [email protected]

Healthwatch Hertfordshire's online GP services and bookings survey (https://buff.ly/3YoRpvE) is now live.

There has been a significant shift in the healthcare landscape, and many GP services are now accessed predominantly online. Whilst these changes have presented many opportunities, there are also numerous challenges and difficulties. That's why Healthwatch Hertfordshire is partnering with health providers (NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex) to transform primary care.

By filling out the survey on GP's online services and bookings, Hertfordshire residents will be able to help us:
1. Understand whether people use online services to book appointments with their GP services
2. Explore what people tend to use online services for
3. Identify how online services could be improved and made easier to use
4. And explore public experiences of using online services.
Everyone in Hertfordshire can help us make a difference.

Children under 10 travel for FREE on HertsLynx during the summer, when accompanied by a fare paying adult. Offer ends 1st Sept. https://orlo.uk/cMGQI

🌟 Exciting news for parents and carers in Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Peterborough! 🌟

NESSie is thrilled to announce their summer transition support webinars designed for parents and carers.

Here are our upcoming sessions:
✨️ Primary to Secondary School
📅 Online, Tuesday 13th August
⏰ 12:00pm - 2:00pm
👉 Sign up here: https://procfu.com/nespubbooking/eventDetail_home/2845936424

✨️ Primary to Secondary School: Autism/Neurodiversity
📅 Online, Tuesday 20th August
⏰ 12:00pm - 2:00pm
👉 Sign up here: https://procfu.com/nespubbooking/eventDetail_home/2845982404

✨️ Preparing for Adulthood 16+
📅 Online, Wednesday 4th September
⏰ 12:00pm - 2:00pm
👉 Sign up here: https://procfu.com/nespubbooking/eventDetail_home/2846011307

These events are funded by Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Peterborough County Council and are here to support you with the tools and confidence needed to support your children.
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⚠️Attention all LEGO Builders!⚠️Hitchin Library will be running a LEGO Club session on Saturday 3rd August at 10:30am. Bookings are £4 per child. If you would like to book a spot, just pop into Hitchin Library and ask one of our lovely staff. 🧱

The long summer break is the perfect opportunity for children/young people to recharge their batteries, by doing some activities.
Sandbox online advice & guidance service for 10-25s in Herts has fantastic new resources https://buff.ly/4aHLTaP
JustTalk Herts
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

North Herts Leisure Centre are offering selected family activities for only £2.00 per person including Soft Play this summer until 31st August 2024.

🟡 Soft play sessions every Tuesday and Wednesday 11:30-13:15.

🟡 Escape the heat in the air conditioned soft play area, a perfect opportunity to catch up on adult conversation with a light refreshment while the kids burn off some energy.

For further information and how to book, visit the ‘Everyone is family’ section on the Everyone Active app or website.
https://www.everyoneactive.com/promotion/everyone-is-family

Work with or know young people who’d love some FREE activities this summer? Summer Parks kicks off at Borehamwood Youth FC next Monday from 3PM until 6PM!
Register here: https://bit.ly/HSPSS24SummerParks

Have you gone a little too hard on the alcohol this weekend? Knowing ‘how much is too much’ can be confusing.

Most of us feel that we know when we’ve overdone it, but sometimes drinking can ‘creep up’ on us.

You can use this unit calculator on the Alcohol Change UK website to find out how healthy your drinking is: https://ow.ly/x5fk50SLYTG

As the weather gets warmer, it's worth checking to see if your bottle of sunscreen is still effective.

The longer the bottle is open, the less effective it is at protecting you. If you’re using sunscreen from last summer, check that it hasn’t expired.

Come and join a free Health Walk this summer.

In Hitchin, there are two fabulous entry level walks for people who are recovering from injury or illness, as well as more challenging options across the district & the rest of the county. Children are welcome if accompanied by an adult.

Go to www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/heathwalks to find a walk near you

Have you, or has someone close to you, been affected by gambling?

Have your say. Your views will help Hertfordshire County Council reduce the harm caused from gambling and understand how best to support residents. Visit https://orlo.uk/JQEYV

Join thousands of people who are already using the free NHS Healthy Living programme to help them live well with type 2 diabetes.

➡️ www.healthyliving.nhs.uk
Get advice at home or on the move by signing up today.

Are you pregnant or have children under the age of four? You could qualify for the NHS Healthy Start scheme to help you buy food, milk and get free Healthy Start vitamins.

Find out if you're eligible here: https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/how-to-apply/

Are you looking forward to the weekend? Not sure what to do this weekend?

Come and join Active in the Community - Hertfordshire for their multi sport Park Play session at the Jackmans Creamery every Saturday morning from 10am.🏏

Do you know someone who struggles with technology?

Create Community run a short 2 day course that teaches people the basic skills needed to use technology to communicate confidently in this digital world.

This could be sending an email, navigating your way online, how to keep safe online and many other things. They will come away feeling more confident with using a device and feel less disconnected from the world.

To find out more or book a space:
✉️[email protected]
📞 01462 558802
📍Pop in- The hub, 19 Station road, Letchworth, SG6 3BB

If your child or teen get benefits-related free school meals, you can book them into HAPpy Camps FREE this summer. A wide range of activities to enjoy. SEND options available. Hot lunch included too! Book using the code from school at https://orlo.uk/pD1QL

There are still a couple of spaces left for the family fun day event in Letchworth.

This event is on the 22nd of August from 10am- 1.30pm and is for children aged ⭐4 - 12 years old.⭐

Book your free space here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/north-herts-district-council?eventref=familyfunday

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Schizophrenia is a mental health condition often described as a type of psychosis. This means you might be unable to tell the difference between your thoughts and reality.
Symptoms may include: a loss of touch with reality; seeing or hear things that are not there; holding irrational, paranoid or unusual beliefs not based on reality; appearing to act strangely because you’re responding to these delusions and hallucinations.
A common misconception is that schizophrenia means having a ‘split personality’. This is not true. It is not related to your personality.
Schizophrenia is usually treated with a combination of therapy and medication unique to the person.

In addition to this, there is self-care and self-help that can help you live well with the condition. For example, planning for difficult times, and understanding the warning signs of an episode.

Find out more about Schizophrenia and finding support: https://bit.ly/3Pxe6Xh

Mental Health Foundation

Schizophrenia What are the symptoms and causes of schizophrenia, misconceptions about schizophrenia, getting support and ways you can look after yourself.

Hertfordshire Mind Network's Flourish service is here to provide advice and information to refugees and asylum seekers who are experiencing mental ill health, or need support with their mental wellbeing or daily challenges ❤️

This service is available to refugees and asylum seekers aged 16 and above, offering up to 10 sessions.

For full details, please visit https://buff.ly/3yzB7Tx

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Great Scott!⚡️- the next Letchworth Garden Shed community event is here..... taking place on SATURDAY 3 AUGUST.
Got an old laptop💻lying around, gathering dust? We can help you donate it to a local student, providing them with much needed access to IT to help them with their studies.
Here's how it works...
1. Book a short slot to drop your old laptop(s) to us at the Letchworth Garden Shed.
2. Our experts will wipe it completely clean of any data 💾 - like you'd never even used it...
3. We, alongside System Restore UK, will refurbish the laptop, before donating it Free-of-charge to a local student 👩‍🎓, who otherwise wouldn't have access to a computer for their studies.
4. If there's any reason we can't refurbish the device or it's not suitable, we'll ethically recycle it.
Want to learn more about the process and sign up?
Visit the website at www.letchworthgardenshed.com/laptop
Alternatively, if you have any questions, feel free to post them below and we'll come right back to you.

If you are a Hertfordshire resident, are over 18 and attend a Hertfordshire GP, you could be eligible for 12 weeks free weight management support.

To find out more: https://oviva.com/uk/en/hertfordshire-weight-management/

Or contact the Healthy Hub:
[email protected]
01462 474111

Childcare Support entitlements are expanding to help with childcare costs.

From September 2024, working parents of children aged between 9 – 23 months could receive 15 hours of Childcare Support per week.

Applications are open – apply now ahead of the September 2024 start date.

www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/childcaresupport

Hertfordshire County Council are there for residents’ big life moments, and the small ones too. To keep being there for you, tell them what you think by 15 September. https://orlo.uk/jk5Xo

Samaritans are always on hand to chat and they understand how difficult it is to reach out.

The first FREE Menopause Support Group launches on Friday 2nd August 1.00pm- 3.00pm at Hitchin Fitness and Swimming Centre

Future dates: September 20th, October 25th, November 29th and December 13th.

If you're fed up with feeling constantly tired, cry for no reason, not sleeping, putting weight on, having problems remembering your own name and a million other symptoms of the perimenopause/ menopause, come along for a cuppa with others going through similar experiences.

We will discuss why you are feeling like you are, how exercise, nutrition and improved health behaviours can help you to cope better and the benefits of taking HRT if needed.

Call 01462 441646 or email [email protected] for more details or to book your FREE place

There are still a couple of spaces left for the family fun day event in Letchworth.

This event is on the 22nd of August from 10am- 1.30pm and is for children aged 4-12years old.

Book your free space here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/north-herts-district-council?eventref=familyfunday

Summer Netball Now will be starting in July at Bancroft Recreation Ground.

Get it in your diaries for your summer netball fix!

For further info please email [email protected]
07954334545

Want to lose weight and have better control of your Diabetes? If you've been diagnosed with Type 2 within the last 6 years you may be eligible to take part in our free programme. Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3TNuRk9 and talk to your GP about being referred.