At Solihull Lighten Up, Gateway’s call centre staff support people who want to lose weight. As well as referrals to our own weight management course “Lighten Up For Life“, and vouchers for commercial groups Slimming World and Weight Watchers, Solihull Lighten Up offers extra telephone support – regular phonecalls to check in with people, making sure …
Since Gateway began in 2006, our tag line has been “Changing Lives, Changing Services”. To change services, we have to play an influencing and sometimes challenging role, sharing evidence of the need for change. That’s why we have always seen it as part of our responsibility to gather views from service users, ensuring that what …
Last week, we ran the first session of training for our Peer Educators: young people who will be going into schools to talk about their experiences of parenthood. We’re delivering this programme in the West Midlands in partnership with Straight Talking, a London charity that employs teenage mothers and young fathers to educate young people …
Recently, we have decided to take a bit of a risk and relaunch a service, despite a lack of external funding. Using our own reserves, we have relaunched Healthy Futures, a programme supporting socially isolated people. In partnership with MyHealthcare, we are now taking referrals from GPs across South Birmingham. Why? Because we know this …
Social isolation is a big issue for people of all ages, but research shows that it’s a particular problem for those who live in cities, older people and people with a long term health condition. That’s why having more opportunities to get together with others for a cuppa and a chat is really important. A …
The new year will see us launching a new service for people in Solihull: the Lighten Up For Life weight management group. Lighten Up for Life has been designed as an extension of the Solihull Lighten Up service (SLU), which we’ve been running for a while. SLU supports people in a number of ways, but …
As the Pregnancy Outreach Workers Service comes to an end, we’re reflecting on the last decade by interviewing some of our POWs about their work. Jacque Jahanara Shaista Shazia Sophia Shazia’s story Shazia has been a POW since the start of the service in 2007. At the time, she wasn’t sure what she wanted to …
As the Pregnancy Outreach Workers Service comes to an end, we’re reflecting on the last decade by interviewing some of our POWs about their work. Jacque Jahanara Shaista Shazia Sophia Jacque’s story Jacque came to Gateway at the very start of the POW Service in 2007. For her, it was the ideal job. “I have …
As the Pregnancy Outreach Workers Service comes to an end, we’re reflecting on the last decade by interviewing some of our POWs about their work. Jacque Jahanara Shaista Shazia Sophia Jahanara’s story Jahanara has been with Gateway on and off for many years. Like many of our POWs, she originally joined as a Community Family …
As the Pregnancy Outreach Workers Service comes to an end, we’re reflecting on the last decade by interviewing some of our POWs about their work. Jacque Jahanara Shaista Shazia Sophia Sophia’s story Sophia has been here since the start of the service in 2006. She says, “it’s completely changed in that time! “Over the last …