Events
Bowel Cancer Coffee morning
An event to alert peeople to the importance of looking out for early signs of bowel cancer gave Chester's town crier something to shout about. David Mitchell sounded off about the Be Loud coffee morning held at Links Healthy Living Centre. People who went along were able to find out more about bowel cancer prevention, screening and treatment. It also featured interactive food tasting and other fun activities.Gallery
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Summer Holiday Activities
Links Healthy Living Centre organised a number of activities to keep the children busy during the summer Holidays. The pictures below show the children enjoying a Latin Dance class, Healthy Eating and Craft session and Heartstart Emergency Life Saving Course.Gallery
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The pictures below show some of the children receiving their certificates for the Heartstart Emergency Life Saving Course and chidlren enjoying the crafts and Karate taster sessions.
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Whit Holiday Activities
Links Healthy Living Centre organised a number of healthy living activities for children during the Whit Holidays. Margo and Helen invited people to join them for a fun walk on Tuesday 30 May at 1pm. Walkers met at the centre and were guided on a forty-minute walk around Whitby park. A Street Dance class was held on Wednesday 31 May where children learned how to street dance.On Friday 2 June the centre held a Fruity Friday activity morning as part of the national Cancer Prevention Week. Activities include smoothie and fruit kebab making, fruity crafts and fruit themed games. Fruity Friday was extremely popular with 30 children attending keeping Lydia, Margo and Helen very busy! Many thanks to Emma, a student from the University of Chester, for organising the morning and to Marie and Joan for volunteering.
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Easter Holiday Activities
During the Easter holidays the centre held a number of healthy living activities to keep the children busy. These activities included an Easter Crafts session, where the children made a variety of Easter goodies. For the girls there was a belly dancing class and for the boys a Kick Boxing class, both proved very enjoyable. Margo also ran a Heartstart Emergency Life Skills Course where children learned what to do in an emergency. The week ended in style with a birthday party to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday. Here the children made their own Crown Jewels and Union Jack flags. The Mayor and Mayoress of Ellesmere Port attended and joined in with the belly dancing display over lunch. The photos below are a selection from the Easter activities.
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The Daffodil Walk for Cancer
The Daffodil Walk for Cancer was held on Wednesday 1st March 2006 to coincide with St David's Day. A good crowd turned out to support both Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Wirral and North Cheshire Prostate Cancer Support Group. The daffodils weren't quite ready in Whitby Park, but it was a pleasant walk with hot soup served back at the centre courtesy of The Greyhound in Saughall. In total £90 was raised for the two charities.
Prostate Cancer Support Group
The photograph below is from the first AGM of the Wirral & North Cheshire Prostate Cancer support group which met on Saturday 28th January morning from 10.00 am to 12 noon. The photo shows the distinguished guests and co-chairmen(standing). It was the first AGM of the group which formed on 1st February 2005.About 70 members attended and guests included the Lord Mayor and Mayoress of EllesmerePort, Andrew Miller MP, Dr I.Syndikus Consultant Oncologist at Clatterbridge Hospital, Mr Ashdown and his wife, from the Berwick Masonic Lodge and Mike Lockett from PSA North of England.
The new publicity leaflet was officially launched into the public domain. Apart from the leaflet giving deatils of the Support Group, it is also intended to raise awareness among men to offer themselves for routine screening for prostate cancer.
The primary aim of our Group is to give support to fellow prostate cancer sufferers and their carers, but a further aim is to raise money for the Hospitals, for equipment they cannot obtain from the NHS. At this meeting the group officially launched their campaign to raise £15,000 for some equipment required by the new Brachytherapy and Cryo surgery unit which opened at Clatterbridge Hospital in February 2005. In this respect, it was extremely pleasing to receive £300 from Mr Ashdown as a donation from the Berwick Masonic lodge and also to receive a £50 personal donation from Mr Andrew Miller.
The meeting concluded with refreshments and a raffle which was well received, from which the Group made £163, prizes having been donated by the Committee. For more information about this group please contact the centre.
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Kids Christmas Activity Afternoon
Links Healthy Living Centre held an afternoon of chistmas activities for local children on Thursday 22nd December 2006. The children made christmas cards, crackers and decorations for thier christmas trees. Father Christmas made a special visit to see the children and handed out bags of fruit and sweets.
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October Half-term holiday activities
Links Healthy Living Centre arranged a few family activities for the October half-term holidays to remind people to stay healthy and hopefully keep well over the winter.
Healthy Walk and Homemade soups
On Tuesday 25th October fourteen people joined Helen and Vicky from the centre for a walk around Whitby Park where they played vitamin bingo. After the walk they retreated back to the centre where they were treated to a choice of homemade Winter Soups provided by The Greyhound Inn in Saughall.
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Kids Heartstart
On Wednesday 26th October twelve children completed an Emergency Life Support Course from the British Heart Foundation run by Margo from the centre. The course covers the actions needed to be taken in order to keep someone alive until professional help arrives and covers topics such as giving rescue breathing and how to deal with choking and serious bleeding.
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Vitamin Activity Day
On Thursday 27th October a Vitamin Activity Day was held at the centre where children played duck apple, had their hair braided and nails painted, tasted lots of goodies and completed the obstacle course!!.
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Jewellery Making Workshop
Two jewellery Making Workshops were held at the centre during May half-term holidays. Children created their very own beads, bangles and necklaces using a variety of brightly coloured papers, plastics and cards.
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Tete a Tete 1st Birthday
The newly named Tete a Tete Drop in, formally known as Tete a Tete café, celebrated its 1st birthday in January. The drop in is open to those with all forms of dementia, their families, carers and loved ones. The informal monthly drop in runs on the last Tuesday of each month from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. Each month there will be speakers on topics of interest starting with a local solicitor who specialises in enduring power of attorney, court of protection, trusts and wills. The sessions are run in conjunction with the Alzheimer's Society.
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Gentle Mobility 2nd Birthday
Friday 11th January 2005 saw the second birthday of the Gentle Mobility class at Wolverham Community Centre. The class meets every Friday between 1:30 pm and 2:30 pm and average attendance is 15 per session.
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Chinese New Year Celebrations
Sunday 27th February 2005 saw the West Cheshire Multicultural Women's Group celebrated Chinese New Year at Links Healthy Living Centre, keeping alive the customs and tradition for the present and future generations. Councilor Mia Jones opened the celebration. With an array of colour, music, singing and dancing, people joined in lessons in paper folding, Chinese writing, traditional Chinese herbal medicine, demonstrations of acupuncture and food tasting. The day ended with the customary new-year visit from the Chinese moneyman who passed around his gifts.
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Try It! Like It! Live It!
Local people joined in a free fun-packed day to celebrate the second birthday of Ellesmere Port's Healthy Living Centre on Friday 10th September 2004 between 12noon and 6pm. The event, Try It! Like It! Live It!, offered an array of taster sessions, fun activities, competitions and prizes. The Borough Mayor officially opened the day at 1:00.
Healthy Living Centre Co-ordinator, Lydia Hough said: "Try It! Like It! Live It! was a huge success with over 400 people visiting the centre throughout the day. The aim of the day was to celebrate the success of the Healthy Living Centre and to look for new ideas of future projects for 2004/ 2005.
Everything from belly dancing, street dance and tai chi to smoothie-making, massage and blood pressure testing was available and Whitby Park hosted a Frisbee throwing competition and community garden open day.
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