Advisers from the Solihull Lifestyle Service are offering FREE health checks and advice at Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre all this week. The team will be on the first floor, at the top of the escalator near Asda, until Sunday 19th Jan. They can offer all sorts of health and wellbeing advice, including blood pressure checks, …
Are you an expectant parent, or have you or your partner given birth within the last three months? We’re looking for recent parents, or parents-to-be, to take part in a focus group about food and nutrition. This is the second event we’re running as part of the “Birmingham Food Conversation”. The Birmingham Food Conversation is …
Wishing all our friends, partners and colleagues a very happy Christmas and best wishes for 2020. Our Christmas card this year includes just a few of the things the Gateway team got up to over the last year. We present to you: the 12 Days of Gateway! (You can click on the image to view …
Last week the Patient Health Forum held their Christmas party, with singing, dancing… and a special visit from a certain Mr Claus! The Gateway team was on hand to help, as ever, booking transport and making endless cups of tea, but for the party we made sure to include some special extras for this month’s …
In the summer, we welcomed a new Chair for our Maternity Voices Partnership: Chloe Cadby. The role of Chair is a busy one, and we’re happy to say Chloe has thrown herself into it over the last four months! The Maternity Voices Partnership is made up of maternity professionals (like midwives and doctors), and service …
Did you know you’re three times more likely to quit with the help of a Stop Smoking service? The Solihull Stop Smoking service is now part of the Solihull Lifestyle Service, so it’s FREE and easy to access if you live in Solihull, or have a Solihull GP. How does it work? If you’d like …
We’ve been running Workplace Wellbeing services for a couple of years now, but right now we’re delivering one of our largest Workplace Wellbeing commissions yet: a series of events for Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust. Gateway’s Wellbeing Advisers and Trainers have been working in a number of locations around the city, delivering one-to-one advice sessions …
Last week we were very pleased to find out we’ve won a top prize for supporting our staff in caring roles. The Carer Friendly Business Awards Birmingham are part of the Working for Carers programme by Forward Carers, an organisation developed to make a real difference to the lives of people in carer roles, and …
We’re moving offices on Thursday so from 12pm we will be without phone lines but we hope we’ll be back up and running again within a few hours and certainly by the end of the afternoon. You can still email us info@gatewayfs.org and if you have any individual staff members mobile numbers please continue to …
Over the last few months we’ve been blogging about the work our Straight Talking Peer Educators do in schools, drawing on their own experiences to educate young people about early parenthood and helping them learn about making healthy choices. But the scheme has a lot of benefits for the Peer Educators themselves, too. That’s because …