Make a Change4Life
- up & about – get moving
- 60 active minutes – it all adds up
- 5 A Day – it's easier than you think
- meal time – yummy, healthy food
- snack check – stay in control
- me sized meals – stay in control
- cut back fat – give fat the elbow
- sugar swap – easy, healthy, yummy
Events
Summer Activities
Fun in the sun for all the family
Join the Parks Outreach team for lots of fun events taking place in parks across the borough. Featuring a Teddy Bears' Picnic, kite making, drumming workshops, face painting, treasure hunts and lots, lots more - there'll be something for everyone to enjoy. Click on the links below for more information on the events.
Wednesday 4 August, Teddy Bears' Picnic at St John's Park.
Wednesday 11 August, Fun in the Park at Stepney Green Gardens, 11am - 2pm.
Friday 13 August, Adventure Trail at King Edward Memorial Park (Shadwell Park), 11am - 2pm.
Wednesday 25 August, Fun in the Park at Sir John McDougal Park, 11am - 2pm.
Download the indian summer programme with SPLASH by clicking here.
Download the fun in the park programme with John Scurr Community Centre by clicking here.
Download a taste of the park programme at Millwall Park by clicking here.
For more information on the above events, contact Ella Sendura from the Parks and Outreach team on 020 7364 6520.
Healthy Borough Fundraising Programme
Account3 will be working with us to deliver a number of fundraising support workshops. The workshops are designed to support and encourage projects that have been funded by the Healthy Borough Programme to apply for further funding to sustain their work.
All workshops will be followed up with a one-to-one session and online or telephone based support designed to review funding applications and develop partnership bids. There are five workshops planned, and they are taking place on:
Wednesday 28 July, 6 - 9pm
Wednesday 11 August, 10.30am - 1.30pm
Thursday 26 August, 10.30am -1.30pm
Tuesday 14 September, 6 - 9pm
Thursday 30 September, 2 - 5pm
All workshops will take place at the Account3 offices, 3 Birkbeck Street, E2 6JY.
For further information or to register, please contact: Asha Abdillahi on 0207 739 7720 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Paradise Gardens, Victoria Park, Grove Road, E3
Saturday and Sunday, 19 - 20 June, 12noon-10pm
Get set for a Healthy Borough Summer and join the Healthy Borough team as we launch our summer campaign. A unique and free multi-art form festival showcasing the best of East London, encouraging the audience to participate and featuring both homegrown and international music, theatre, street arts, spectacle, circus, dance, design and crafts, children’s activities, food stalls and Carter’s Steam Fair. Festival Highlights include Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra, the UK premier of ‘Wishful’, a site specific night time spectacular created in Tower Hamlets and T Mobile's Big Dance Count Down will see the best of East London’s Dance Talent transforming the bandstand and beyond.
For full details visit our website www.paradisegardensfestival.org.uk.
National Family Week
31 May - 6 June
National Family Week is the UK's biggest annual celebration of family life aiming to highlight the importance of quality time together and promote the benefits of a healthy, active lifestyle. National Family Week represents the largest coalition on family issues in the UK, working with hundreds of partners and supporters from major national charities to community organisations to help bring families together. The Healthy Borough Programme will be supporting a number of events and activities throughout the borough for children and families. These include:
| 31/05/2010 | Monday | Bring Your Own Picnic | Meath Gardens - Smart Street E2 | 11.00 - 15.00 |
| 31/05/2010 | Monday | Bring & Share Picnic | Cemetary Park, Southern Grove. E3 | 11.00 - 15.00 |
| 31/05/2010 | Monday | Bring Your Own Picnic | Poplar Recreation Ground. East India Dock Road. Poplar E14 | 11.00 - 15.00 |
| 04/06/2010 | Friday | Fun in the Park | King Edward Memorial Park. Glamis Road. Shadwell E1 | 11.00 - 15.00 |
| 05/06/2010 | Saturday | Sports day | Victoria Park - next to Victoria & Albert Playground. London E3 | 11.00 - 15.00 |
A Baishakhi Mela in Banglatown, Brick Lane
Sunday 23 May, 12-7pm Free
Join the Healthy Borough team at A Baishakhi Mela in Banglatown Brick Lane, the largest celebration of the Bangla New Year outside of South Asia. This huge annual community celebration of music, performance and dance in the streets around Brick Lane is a key event in Tower Hamlets’ cultural calendar. With a wide range of music and entertainment across three music stages in Weavers Fields and Allen Gardens, a new Mela Family Zone, food and stalls and a colourful procession along Brick Lane the Mela offers a programme that will appeal to all. For the latest information about this event, visit www.baishakhimela.org.uk.