Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Monday, 21 April 2008
Working with the Health Improvement Team at your local Primary Care Trust
My name is Rahela Khan and I am project managing the Healthy Transitions programme for Salford Foyer.
I originally liaised with Salford PCT and Sure Start in 2003 when I used to teach cookery and crafts. Last year, I was recommended by one of the Health Improvement Team Staff who was an ex-student. A six week course was organised by Janet, the Health Improvement Worker for the PCT and delivered in the autumn. A further course funded by the Foyer was completed in March.
We have involved Janet with the Health Action Team and have worked closely to identify activities and information that would be more beneficial to the Young People. Janet will be involved with the Launch event and Tasters doing activities and displays around nutrition, healthy eating and relaxation. We will bring Janet into the Foyer to do Smoothie demonstrations with the other regular groups and sessions we hold.
We have found Janet a great source of information and contacts due to her connections with the PCT.
I also work for Barnardo’s in a Children’s Centre and find we can liaise really well with the PCT in so many different ways such as infant feeding peer support, young mums groups, sexual health, drugs and alcohol awareness and smoking cessation to name a few. One contact is one foot in the door to many opportunities.
And now a bit about our Foyer Health programme ..
Our Healthy Eating programme will be launched on Thursday 1st May at Salford Foyer 12noon-3pm where we will have local agencies attending and 3 different activities, baby massage, reflexology and creative arts. The Young People Leaders, i.e. The Health Action Team, will prepare a free buffet for everyone to savour. Our tasters will each include a number of activities, with free buffet and beverages. Healthy Eating will offer 3 demos around Quick Food and Food Fun activities. Physical activities for the Young People to partake in will be boxing, Caribbean and street dance and Chi Gung. A late buffet will be served at 3pm.
The well-being taster will bring Thai cuisine demonstrations, relaxation and reflexology. Food and Spice goody bags with recipes will be given to the Young People as prize draws. The 40 cookery sessions will consist of short courses around ‘Make it and eat it’, ‘International cookery’, ‘Food Challenge’ and Food Collages.
Future plans include setting up a breakfast club called ‘Mid-morning Mission’ with quizzes, activities and food demonstrations.
I originally liaised with Salford PCT and Sure Start in 2003 when I used to teach cookery and crafts. Last year, I was recommended by one of the Health Improvement Team Staff who was an ex-student. A six week course was organised by Janet, the Health Improvement Worker for the PCT and delivered in the autumn. A further course funded by the Foyer was completed in March.
We have involved Janet with the Health Action Team and have worked closely to identify activities and information that would be more beneficial to the Young People. Janet will be involved with the Launch event and Tasters doing activities and displays around nutrition, healthy eating and relaxation. We will bring Janet into the Foyer to do Smoothie demonstrations with the other regular groups and sessions we hold.
We have found Janet a great source of information and contacts due to her connections with the PCT.
I also work for Barnardo’s in a Children’s Centre and find we can liaise really well with the PCT in so many different ways such as infant feeding peer support, young mums groups, sexual health, drugs and alcohol awareness and smoking cessation to name a few. One contact is one foot in the door to many opportunities.
And now a bit about our Foyer Health programme ..
Our Healthy Eating programme will be launched on Thursday 1st May at Salford Foyer 12noon-3pm where we will have local agencies attending and 3 different activities, baby massage, reflexology and creative arts. The Young People Leaders, i.e. The Health Action Team, will prepare a free buffet for everyone to savour. Our tasters will each include a number of activities, with free buffet and beverages. Healthy Eating will offer 3 demos around Quick Food and Food Fun activities. Physical activities for the Young People to partake in will be boxing, Caribbean and street dance and Chi Gung. A late buffet will be served at 3pm.
The well-being taster will bring Thai cuisine demonstrations, relaxation and reflexology. Food and Spice goody bags with recipes will be given to the Young People as prize draws. The 40 cookery sessions will consist of short courses around ‘Make it and eat it’, ‘International cookery’, ‘Food Challenge’ and Food Collages.
Future plans include setting up a breakfast club called ‘Mid-morning Mission’ with quizzes, activities and food demonstrations.
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Worcester YMCA Foyer launch their Foyer Health Programme
Worcester YMCA Foyer launched their Foyer Health Programme on the 7th April with an evening all about preparing and cooking fish. The Foyer's chef and Foyer Health ambassadors joined forces with the residents to help them cook.
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Torbay Foyer Health Champion - My encounter with the big boys.
Sarah Bugler
Torbay Foyer Health Champion
My encounter with the big boys
Dear Mr Sainsbury’s, Mr Tesco and Mr Morrison’s
My name is Sarah Bugler, we have a Foyer that provides supported accommodation for twenty single young homeless people, we are embarking on a new initiative supported by the lottery and the Foyer Federation… a most exciting event to try and encourage young people to learn how to cook well balanced, healthy meals on a budget, these young people are future customers.
Is there anything you can do to help support this very worthwhile cause, I would be happy to come and visit to give you more details..
We all know how the rest of the story goes.
Response
You are just one of around 100 requests we have each week to help a charity
Put it in writing and send it to head office
No one can make that decision here and now the managers out (do you have a deputy? yes but he is out too!)
All discounts have to be agreed through head office in advance at least three months
Sorry No
We will call you back (never did)
We have our own campaign
So when all else fails, someone one told me to try and cut out the middle men, so my task was to do just that, I will go straight to source, as we were unable to afford to send me off to sunny Spain etc to get the fruit, I found a local supplier and fruit factory within two miles of the Foyer
I was invited to the factory and shown how the produce was sorted, packed etc. The supplier was extremely helpful and happy to support a local good cause. So thank you to Frank Mann for supplying more fruit than I think a supermarket could stock and at cost price.
We used the fruit on our launch and taster day. Each resident received a fruit goodie bag, smoothes and taste tested the exotic fruits.
Due to the abundance we were able to provide a supported housing project with a goodie bag and two more boxes of a variety of fruit were delivered to two homeless charities.
Torbay Foyer Health Champion
My encounter with the big boys
Dear Mr Sainsbury’s, Mr Tesco and Mr Morrison’s
My name is Sarah Bugler, we have a Foyer that provides supported accommodation for twenty single young homeless people, we are embarking on a new initiative supported by the lottery and the Foyer Federation… a most exciting event to try and encourage young people to learn how to cook well balanced, healthy meals on a budget, these young people are future customers.
Is there anything you can do to help support this very worthwhile cause, I would be happy to come and visit to give you more details..
We all know how the rest of the story goes.
Response
You are just one of around 100 requests we have each week to help a charity
Put it in writing and send it to head office
No one can make that decision here and now the managers out (do you have a deputy? yes but he is out too!)
All discounts have to be agreed through head office in advance at least three months
Sorry No
We will call you back (never did)
We have our own campaign
So when all else fails, someone one told me to try and cut out the middle men, so my task was to do just that, I will go straight to source, as we were unable to afford to send me off to sunny Spain etc to get the fruit, I found a local supplier and fruit factory within two miles of the Foyer
I was invited to the factory and shown how the produce was sorted, packed etc. The supplier was extremely helpful and happy to support a local good cause. So thank you to Frank Mann for supplying more fruit than I think a supermarket could stock and at cost price.
We used the fruit on our launch and taster day. Each resident received a fruit goodie bag, smoothes and taste tested the exotic fruits.
Due to the abundance we were able to provide a supported housing project with a goodie bag and two more boxes of a variety of fruit were delivered to two homeless charities.
Monday, 7 April 2008
Guidance for Physical Activity Programmes
This 'Guidance for Physical Activity Programmes' guide provides some advice and guidance, as well as some facts and figures for developing an effective physical activity programme. It also contains suggestions of who to contact to develop local partnerships on physical activity.
For those applying to join Year 2 of Foyer Health six key areas need to be included in planning your programme. They are listed in brief below and more details are provided in the guidance document below:
1. Young peoples' participation should be integral to the planning and implementation of the programme.
2. The programme should be informed by the recommendations on physical activity levels required to maintain health and well-beinhttp://guidance_on_designing_your_specialist_physical_activity_programme.pdf/g and good practice in promoting physical activity.
3. The programme should deliver a range of activity opportunities at a range of levels.
4. The programme should support young people to develop the skills and confidence to integrate physical activity into their daily lives whilst at the Foyer, but also in the medium and long term after moving on to independent living.
5. The physical activity programme should have the potential to become sustainable after 2009.
6. The physical activity programme should identify and plan to develop new partnerships and to integrate into existing local physical activity initiatives: e.g. healthy walks schemes and sport development programmes.
For those applying to join Year 2 of Foyer Health six key areas need to be included in planning your programme. They are listed in brief below and more details are provided in the guidance document below:
1. Young peoples' participation should be integral to the planning and implementation of the programme.
2. The programme should be informed by the recommendations on physical activity levels required to maintain health and well-beinhttp://guidance_on_designing_your_specialist_physical_activity_programme.pdf/g and good practice in promoting physical activity.
3. The programme should deliver a range of activity opportunities at a range of levels.
4. The programme should support young people to develop the skills and confidence to integrate physical activity into their daily lives whilst at the Foyer, but also in the medium and long term after moving on to independent living.
5. The physical activity programme should have the potential to become sustainable after 2009.
6. The physical activity programme should identify and plan to develop new partnerships and to integrate into existing local physical activity initiatives: e.g. healthy walks schemes and sport development programmes.
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