Avonbourne School

A Business & Enterprise College

Lifestyle changes

Opportunities & funding available to make a fresh start

Activate Your Life for a Lighter Way to Live

Wanted: 60 families who want to take action to improve their health, fitness and wellbeing!

A 12 week activity based family health and wellbeing programme with a focus on developing an effective weight management lifestyle. Based at the Littledown Centre, the programme includes a wide range of activities for all the family, lifestyle learning sessions, one to one and online support. The project is majority funded by the Big Lottery Wellbeing Fund. Each family programme is worth up to £250. There is a cost to the family of £25. To be eligible for the programme, families are required to fulfill the following criteria:

· Be residents of Bournemouth

· WANT to make lifestyle changes to benefit their health, fitness and wellbeing

· One member of the family would benefit from losing weight

· Access to email and the web

· Commit to a 12 week programme

If you are an organization/agency who works with families who you think could benefit from this programme, please contact us for further details.

Lifestyle Mentoring

Wanted: 200 people who would benefit from Lifestyle mentoring

Another project funded by Big Lottery Wellbeing Fund, this time offering Personal Lifestyle Mentoring for people wanting to make a lifestyle change for improved health and wellbeing. The project offer up to 6 sessions with a qualified lifestyle mentor for £15. The normal cost for 6 sessions would be £150–£200. To programme is aimed at the following beneficiaries:

· Individuals with low level mental ill health for whom lifestyle changes and self esteem support/stress management and confidence building would provide a quick response solution and prevent deterioration to serious mental ill health.

· Individuals approaching older age (45yr +) and for whom a lifestyle change and the development of social networks would benefit.

· Those who have been newly diagnosed with a health condition and whose quality of life would improve, or be positively maintained.

· Those who are inactive or unfit and those who are isolated by way of age, race, gender, environment or through lack of social networks and skills.

· Those who live in deprived communities or may be socially or economically disadvantaged.

· Those who would not normally access mainstream health or social care services.

Please contact for further details.

PeteCohen.TV

Wanted: Organisations / agencies who would like to offer their staff / clients a FREE online weight management programme.

We have been offered the opportunity to provide an online weight management programme, PeteCohen.tv. from the New Year for a period of six months.
The programme normally costs £69, however as part of a Active Communities partnership programme we a looking to offer the programme to health, workplace and community settings to determine it’s long term potential and benefits. Pete Cohen is an acclaimed author and international presenter on behavioral change as well as regular appearances on GM.TV and other lifestyle programmes. His work has also been utilised by BUPA.

If you would like to discuss further this opportunity for your staff/clients/patients, contact us.

Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.

Layne Hamerston
Bournemouth Active Communities (Health and Wellbeing)
07824 436880

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