2010

April

New courses start!

Train the Trainer course starts and the Fresh 'n' Fruity one day Activator course begins. It will be followed by one on the Thursday 20th May 10-2pm. See the Fresh 'n' Fruity page for more details.

March

CHE

A new Community Health Educator course starts.

February

Partnership Development Event

Another successful Partnership Development Event introducing new courses and projects to prospective partners. All served with homemade soup!

January

New Year! New Ideas!

2009

December

Bon Voyage Lauren!

Lauren Harpham, our enigmatic community worker leaves to travel round Australia for six months.

October

Launch of Pick 'n' Mix, Scrap is Back and 'Let's Talk Money' training.

September

Partnership Development Event

This was a successful Partnership Development Event. Jo Thorpe (our new Co-ordinator) introduced the new innovative Pick 'n' Mix project plan and the 'Let's Talk Money' training innitiative.

July

Staff Changes - A new start?

The Healthy Living Network welcomed a new organisational and management structure. Joanne Thorpe, previously a Community Worker & Trainer at HLNL, was appointed the post of Management Team Co-ordinator when Chief Officer Ann Rushman left mid summer.

Armley Funday

This year's Armley Funday, which was held on Wednesday 22nd July was a fabulously successful event once again. With even more stalls, more fun and sunshine the event surpassed expectations and rain. The Healthy Living Network team all attended this year, for the first time and together distributed their funky fruity cups to the crowds. They also wowed people with their art and craft workshops. Thanks to all who got involved.

June

New CHEs graduate with flying colours!

After 14 weeks of hard work on the Community Health Educator course, our 12 new CHE's have finally graduated in June with flying colours. Jon and Collette would like to say a huge 'congratulations' to all of the team for all your effort and enthusiasm and welcome to the CHES project. We have some busy and exciting times ahead and they will all be a great asset to the team. Well done guys and we look forward to working with you out in the community! Collette Connolly - CHE Co-ordinator

March

The Young CHE pilot course at Crawshaw High School, with the Year 12 & 13s, was a great success. They will be running their own fruit cup session with the Year 8s next week and they will have an opportunity to do Voluntary work with HLNL in the forthcoming year.

2008

December

Christmas Saturdads

The Saturdads Christmas Special, which was held on Saturday 6th December was a great success. Father Christmas was on time and there was plenty of festive fun for all! Thank you once again to all who got involved and helped out. Look out for information for the next one!

November

Saturdads

Saturdads had a very successful Halloween event on Saturday 1st November. Thank you to all who got involved and helped out.

Training

This terms Training Programme has been a great success. We have now got several waiting lists for various courses next term. Many people have made use of the free bursary places provided by Voluntary Action Leeds. This has opened up alot more training opportunities for small groups and community members.

Community Health Educators

We are currently running the Gypsy & Traveller Community Health Educators course at Leeds GATE (Leeds Gypsy and Traveller Exchange). The course is becoming more and more popular within the community. It is run by Jon Hindley (Community Health Programmes Manager) who said "the class are fantastic, very enthusiastic and alot of fun." If you are interested and are from the Traveller community please contact Helen McAuslane at Leeds GATE on 0113 240 2613.

NEW Cooking On a Budget

Our NEW Cooking On a Budget will replace the Five a Day cookery course and is being run by Jo Jenner. The first course starts on 12th November at St Margarets Church in Bramley. The course is two hours a week over six weeks and in light of the recent credit crunch we will be cooking healthy meals to a budget.

NEW Make Do, Grow and Mend

Over the next few months we will be piloting a new project called ‘Make Do, Grow and Mend’. This will be a series of workshops exploring how we can save money by mending, recycling, growing our own both in a small space and in an allotment and learning new skills by making a variety of things. As well as knitting, sewing and handicrafts, we will be exploring energy saving in our homes, money issues and general tips for making those pennies go further in a time where everyone is feeling the credit crunch pinch.

NEW Mens Health Project

Lauren Harpham who has worked as a CHE for the last couple of years has now joined us as a Trainee Community Worker. Lauren has already started to develop the new Mens Health Project with some innovative and eye catching information to look out for!

Lauren is also working on Saturdads and the forthcoming Young CHE Programme with Casey Russell our Training Development Worker.

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