We’re really pleased to announce that Gateway Family Services has been awarded the contract to provide Solihull’s Integrated Lifestyle Service for a minimum of three years from April 2019. Gateway will be working with a number of partners to deliver a range of core lifestyle services to communities in Solihull, including health checks, weight management, …
Who better to tell young people about the realities of teen pregnancy than a group of young parents who have been through it themselves? Gateway’s Peer Educators are young people who became parents as teenagers. They visit groups of children and young people – usually in schools – to raise awareness of child sexual exploitation …
Limited places are now available for RSPH-accredited supporting smoking cessation, understanding health improvement and supporting behaviour change courses in Birmingham in the new year. If one of your new year’s resolutions is to gain a health and wellbeing qualification (or to support your staff to do so), then this is for you. These short courses …
Unfortunately, we’ve had to stop taking referrals to our social prescribing service Healthy Futures again, leaving dozens of vulnerable people in Birmingham without support. Right now, we simply don’t have the money to continue. Back in February, we announced that we would be continuing to fund the service using our own savings. At the time, …
We know it can be hard to keep people motivated, especially after the Christmas break. That’s why we’ve come up with a range of tailored Workplace Wellbeing programmes that might just be able to help. Together, we’ll beat the winter blues! Our qualified, specialised Health and Wellbeing Advisers have been working with people in the …
The latest meeting of the Birmingham and Solihull Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) took place on Thursday last week. Members of the public met up with midwives and other maternity professionals to talk about their experiences of the maternity system and discuss some of the latest developments. MVPs are a way for service users to share …
Almost three quarters of smokers say they would like to quit. But it’s not easy. More than a third (39%) go on to attempt it each year but only a small proportion (about 5%) successfully stop smoking. However, did you know that with specialist support — for example from a structured smoking cessation course — …
Over the last year, we’ve started encouraging people to use a digital app to stay in touch after their health and wellbeing courses end. Because so many people on our 12 week Lighten Up For Life course were telling us they wanted to keep in contact with each other, we decided to make it part …
Did you know that being lonely is actually harmful to physical health? Studies show that a lack of social relationships is a big health risk1. Researchers have found that it can be as big a mortality risk as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day! Now, the government has decided that loneliness is a problem worth tackling. …
On 19th July, we officially launched our Workplace Wellbeing services with a free Workplace Health Taster Day. The hospitality suite at the Chamber of Commerce building became a “health centre” for the day, with free activities including blood pressure and BMI checks (with personalised advice based on the results), an introduction to Tai Chi, impairment …