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July 2012 Go4It project ends |
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June 2012 Go4It Mystery Visits report |
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The Mystery Visits Report
was produced by the Go4It group. It is about how the services of Bromley Mytime
work for people with different needs. Click
here to see the report. |
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January 2012 Talking with Doctors |
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The
Advocate 4 Health Steering Group wrote a report about their experiences with
their doctors. It is for doctors
and other people who work in health as well as people with a learning
disability. Click here to see it. |
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November 2011 Advocacy for All AGM |
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We
did healthy Deal or no Deal at the
Advocacy for All AGM. Laura
was very good as Noel Edmunds. It
was very funny. |
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November 2011 Bexley Group - Yoga |
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We
learnt about breathing. Breathing
is important to keep you calm and stress
free. We learnt how to do the sun salutation. We
listened to relaxing music while
we did the yoga |
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October 2011 Bromley Group – Healthy Eating |
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We
had a presentation about calories.
We learnt what a calorie is and how it helps with energy but makes you put on weight
if it is not used up. Michele talked about healthy and unhealthy food |
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October 2011 Bexley Group – Role Plays |
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We
did role plays. One of the
situations was a man in the supermarket buying unhealthy food. The person on
the checkout tries to tell them how to
be healthier. |
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September 2011 Bromley Group – Role Plays |
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We
did role plays. One of the
situations was a doctor talking to someone with type 2 diabetes. People in
the audience could step in and take the place of a character and change what happens. |
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September 2011 Bexley Group – Good Mental Health |
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We
talked about how to have good mental
health. Everyone
had lots of good ideas like staying
positive, keeping active and staying in touch with friends. |
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August 2011 Bromley Group – Walk |
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The
group walked through Grove Park Nature
Reserve. It
was a Cathie’s last session
supporting the group. Everyone thanked her and gave her a card. We
will miss her. |
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August 2011 Bexley Group – Games in Danson
Park |
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We
played tennis, football and cricket in Danson Park. It was fun. Everyone got involved. Afterwards
we had a healthy picnic with brown
baguette, houmous and guacamole. |
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July 2011 Bromley Group - Walk |
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We
took the bus from Bromley to Elmstead
Woods. It was a nice summer
evening for a walk. We saw some
interesting tree carvings. Linda said
“it’s better than staying at home watching TV”. |
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July 2011 Erith Yacht Club |
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Stuart McMullen arranged a
fantastic taster day at Erith Yacht
Club. 7 people had a go at sailing and everyone enjoyed it. Don’t
tell anyone but Stuart fell in the
river when he was pushing one of the boats off! |
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July 2011 Bexley Group – Health Trainers |
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Jan Smith from Bexley Health
Trainers came to talk to the group. People can get 1 to 1 support to achieve
their health goals. We had a big debate
about what is healthy and what is not healthy. |
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June 2011 Bowel Cancer Awareness - Bexley |
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At
the end of Learning Disability Week we ran an event about bowel cancer awareness. We learnt about the signs
and symptoms and what to do if you spot them. We
learnt how to tell other people to
be aware. |
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June 2011 Bexley Group – walk in Danson Park |
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We
had a ‘walk and talk.’ We walked about
3 miles just as the sun was setting. It was very beautiful. We made some
session plans. Lots of people said
they want to go swimming. |
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June 2011 Bromley Group – First Aid |
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Netty from the Red Cross came to talk to us about
first aid. We learnt about lots of
things including what to do if someone has a seizure or faints. Netty showed us how to put someone in the recovery position. Some of us practiced on each other. |
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May 2011 Bromley group: Tennis |
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In
May we walked to the tennis courts in Queen’s Gardens. Some of us spent the evening playing
tennis. Others played with the frisbee. Geoff
gave us all some tips on playing tennis. Holly
was the best frisbee player! |
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May 2011 Stand at Oxleas
Health Festival |
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Carrieann and Karen
helped to run a stand at the Oxleas Health Festival
at the Charlton Football Ground. We showed people our website and DVD. We
also had a ‘Tree of Healthy Promises.’
It was good to see people writing things like ‘Be more positive’ and ‘give up
smoking’ |
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May 2011 Bexley Group – Cha-cha-cha |
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Karen Starbuck came and taught us
how to dance the Cha-cha-cha. We
had a brilliant time even though we got very hot and sweaty. Steven was one of the
star dancers because he picked up the steps so quickly! |
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April 2011 Bromley Group – Talk from Health
Improvement Service |
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Tanya Mead from Bromley
Health Improvement Service came to talk to us. They
have taken over the Walking for Health
programme and there are accessible walks every day of the week across Bromley We
also made fruit kebabs again. Back
by popular demand! |
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April 2011 Speaking up Together event |
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The
Fighting Fit in Bexley helped to make some tasty and healthy food for the Speaking up Together event. We
had wraps filled with tuna and pepper crunch, light cream cheese and cucumber
rolls, houmous and dips, cereal bars and lots of other yummy things! |
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April 2011 Healthy Style event, Greenwich |
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We
worked with members from Greenwich Mencap and Bromley Focus Group to run an
event called Healthy Style. People
enjoyed tasting new healthy foods. Another
highlight was the play and song to get the audience thinking about health. |
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April 2011 Bexley Group – walking and sailing |
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We had
2 visitors. Jo from Thames 21 came
to talk to the group about helping to preserve the River Shuttle. Lots of the members have decided to do a walk and
river clean up every month.
Stuart introduced Ed who came from Erith Yacht Club. Lots of members are going to have a free taster day in July. |
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March 2011 Bromley Group – Keep Fit |
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Ann Wilburn came and did a keep fit session. The group really enjoyed it and some people wanted to know if there are any classes they can join. Ann sent some information about accessible exercise in Bromley to get people started. |
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March 2011 Go 4 It Check up, Bromley |
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On the 24th we had a celebration for everyone who has been getting into exercise with the Go 4 It Project. We also had a community nurse called Vee who came to take people’s weight, BMI and blood pressure to see if they have got healthier. (Lots of people have!) |
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March 2011 Big Talk Health Event, Croydon |
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Advocate 4 Health worked with Croydon People First to run a Health Event. It was at the CVS Resource Base. 43 people came and we talked about health as well as tasting new healthy foods and watching the ‘Staying Healthy’ film. |
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March 2011 Bexley Group – Self Defence |
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David Aiton from Defend International came to run a session. It was really good fun. We got active and learnt a lot about keeping safe. We asked if they could visit our group again. |
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February 2011 Bromley Group – anger management |
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We did a session on anger management. It was good we learnt some techniques like breathing and counting to 10. |
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February 2011 Bexley Group – health checks and wii! |
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We talked about health checks. Some people had heard of them and some hadn’t. We talked about how people can get a health check if they want one. We also talked about the message in a bottle scheme. At the end we did wii fit on the Nintendo Wii |
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February 2011 Steering Group – second meeting |
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We had our second meeting. We talked about funding and the future of the group. We talked about what we would like to do if we get all our funding. Geoffrey from Respect in Bexley said: “We are a unit and that’s what we need.” |
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January 2011 Bexley Group - swimming |
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In January the Fighting Fit in Bexley Group went swimming. One member said he hadn’t swum for 10 years! He really enjoyed it but said his arms were really aching afterwards |
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January 2011 Bromley Group – diabetes awareness |
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Margaret Tipson from Bromley Diabetes Service came to talk to the group. Jo said it was an excellent evening. Linda has a friend with diabetes and she said she now feels better as she would know what to do if anything happened. |
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December 2010 Visit to Avenues in Sidcup |
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Adam and Naomi did a workshop all about personal hygiene. About 25 people came which was a really good turn out. The smells game was funny. Everyone said blue cheese was the worst! |
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December 2010 Bexley Group – Healthy Cooking |
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Fighting Fit in Bexley made a healthy stir fry followed by fruit dipped in dark chocolate. Everyone ate the stir fry, even people who said they ‘don’t do healthy’ |
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December 2010 Bromley Group – Christmas Games |
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In December the group let their hair down. Everyone brought in games that they like. |
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November
2010 Bexley
Group – Stress |
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In November the Fighting Fit in Bexley group talked about stress. They talked about things that help them relax. At the end they put on relaxing music and looked at pictures of nature. |
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November 2010 Bromley Group – Alcohol |
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In November George and Glenis came to talk to us about alcohol. We learnt about drinking safely and how alcohol affects different parts of the body.We made non-alcoholic punch. It tasted good! |
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October 2010 Steering Group – First meeting |
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We had our first Steering Group meeting at Waterloo – London. We talked about how to run the group. We talked about how the borough reps will share the information with their groups. |
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October 2010 Bromley Group – More healthy eating! |
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In October we talked about healthy desserts. We had lots of ideas. They included baked apples and raspberry meringues. Lissadell told us how to make blackberry milkshake. |
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September 2010 Bromley Group - Healthy Lunches |
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In September we planned a week of healthy lunches.We had a go at making healthy wraps. We used low fat yogurt instead of mayonnaiseChrissie said “I’ve never used yogurt in a wrap before. I like it!” |
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September 2010 New Group - Fighting Fit in Bexley |
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We started a group in Bexley. The group decided to call
themselves Fighting Fit in Bexley. We have a lot to learn from the Bromley
group. The group came up with a lot of ideas and we had a good time.
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August 2010 New Project – Go 4 It |
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We started a new project called Go
4 It in Bromley. The project is to get people into exercise. If you live in Bromley and you want to get involved call
020 8300 9666
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August 2010 Bromley Group - Exercise |
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In August we did
some exercise with balloons. We also
started practicing some exercises to do at the AGM.
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July 2010 Bromley Group - Walk and quiz |
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In July we went
for a walk around Bromley town
centre and parks. We really liked
seeing the squirrels and ducklings in the park. We did a quiz as we walked to see what we know
about Bromley. Everybody
did very well in the quiz. Jo and
Matthew got the most points. Lissadell said “It was fun!” |
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July 2010 Cinema Premier |
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In July we held a premier of our film ‘Staying Healthy’ It was at the Brixton Ritzy cinema. About 150 people came We had a lot of nice comments about the film |
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June 2010 Bromley Group – Keep Fit |
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In
June we had fun exercising to music. We did lots of marching and stretching
exercises with Keli-ann. It was a very hot day so afterwards we cooled down with healthy fruit juice ice lollies! |
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May 2010 Bromley Group - Games in the park |
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In
May we played games in the park. Some of us enjoyed a game of boules. After
all the exercise we were ready for our healthy
picnic! At
the end of the evening Linda said “I liked it a lot. We need more!” |
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May 2010 Filming for the DVD |
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In
May we spent 2 weeks filming for
our DVD. We went and visited other groups in Bexley, Bromley, Croydon,
Greenwich, Sutton and Wandsworth. It was hard work but great fun!
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April 2010 Bromley Group - Aromatherapy Hand Massage |
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In April Claire came to tell us how oils from plants can
help with things like stress. She showed us how to do a hand massage and gave us some lovely smelling creams to take home! |
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March 2010 Visit
to Stuart House Group |
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On
29 March Linda and Adam visited the Stuart
House health group. We
showed them the website. Adam did an interview and Linda did a quiz. |
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March 2010 Bromley Group - Badminton |
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In
March we went to the Pavilion and played Badminton. We had some good players! |
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February 2010 Bromley Group - Indian Head Massage |
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In
February Tracey came and showed us
how to do Indian head massage. It
was a very relaxing session! |
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February 2010 Visit to Bexley Carlton Centre |
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In
February Teresa and Ben visited the Carlton Centre in Bexley. They
showed everyone how to use the website |
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January 2010 Bromley Group - Big Health Check up Day |
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We
talked about health services in
Bromley. We had some ideas for the Big Health Check Up Day. |
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January 2010 Visit to Sherard Road Centre |
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On
26 January James went to visit the Sherard Road womens’ group in Greenwich. We told the members about the website |
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