Well London Project comes to the Aberfeldy Estate

The Well London Project is coming to Tower Hamlets  and will be delivering health promotion services and activities on the Aberfeldy Estate.

This is the second phase of the project and aims to provide a programe of activity to help local residents living on the Aberfeldy Estate and surrounding area by providing activities to promote

• healthy eating
• physical activity
• mental health

we will be promoting this project in early June by holding a door knocking and consultation day when we will be asking local residents  some questions around their undestanding of the health needs of this community and then at a comunity cafe sesson again  to give local residents the opportunity to eat and chat in  a relaxed atmosphere and discuss ways that they can see will benifit the health needs of their community.

 

If you want to find out more come to the Aberfeldy Center on the Following dates

•  Tuesday 12th June 2012 consultation event
• Friday 25th June 2012 12 -3PM / 6-8PM

Come to Table Top sale – 14th April 2012

The Aberfeldy Table Top Sale takes place on Saturday 14^th April, Aberfeldy Community Centre

From 10 am – 3 pm.

Fee: 20p admission, includes free raffle.  

Hire a table at £5 (non refundable.)

Please contact Rosalia at ferrarapr@live.co.uk / Julie Browne on 0207 5156794.

Being healthy online – parental controls

I went to the Culloden Primary School presentation about Parental control and how we as parent can protect our children from the Internet.

The 3 top tips I took away from the session were;

1. Facebook – don’t let any children under 13 yrs old go on Facebook. This is the advise because you cannot control who they talk to or befriend i.e. its the same as don’t talk to strangers but online.
2. Viruses on you computer – make sure you have the latest virus on your computer i.e. Norton /AVG
3. Keeping a check on your child’s computer usage – you can track the website your child visits by using the Brower History
4. Passwords – help your child not to share their password with anyone

You can find out more via this website – http://www.childnet.com/kia/parents/cd/

A healthy walk – from Mile End to Bromley By Bow

For my homework I looked online using Google to search for a local walk, that would be easy for a family (esp. with children) – I found a walk from from Mile End to Bromley By Bow.

I liked this walk because it was relaxing, not too long & it is one you can take your time with.

Follow this link http://www.london-footprints.co.uk/wkbowroute.htm

A 5 mile walk from Mile End tube station (Central, District and Hammersmith & City lines) to Bromley-by-Bow tube station (District and Hammersmith & City lines). The route can be shortened by finishing at Devons Road DLR station.

 

 

Healthy eating is important

Why is healthy eating is important? Because fruit and vegetables are very good for our bodies.

I found this site that delivers fruit & vegetables to your home

http://www.riverford.co.uk

 

Saving money on food

I started thinking about how to save money on something we do everyday in our life – buying food for the family. I looked on google and found this website which I think is really useful

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/about_food_waste/5_sure_fire_ways_to.html

International Women’s Day 8th March 2012

The Mum’s group and other local women joined together to celebrate International Women’s day whilst learning more about being healthy by getting online.

They want to share their healthly living tips and we took some photos with our top tips.What would be your tips for us?

Getting on a bike in Aberfeldy Street, E14

Boris Bikes have arrived in Aberfeldy Street

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To find out more about booking a Boris Bike for yourself and your children go to http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/14808.aspx

 

Getting an email account

Lots of the women in the group  have started to get their own  email account in the sessions. 3 members of the group   had a choice between  hotmail,  yahoo or gmail.  What we have found out is that gmail is the easiest to set up particually if you are new to using a computer.

One of the main tips that we would like to pass on to you when signing up for a new email account is to write down your username and password and secret answer and give a copy of  this important  information to somone you trust for safe keeping  because next time you log in you may not remember exactly how you typed in the username and password and may even forget the answer to your secret question and then you wil have to start over again……although how does the saying go …..if at first you don’t suceede  then try and try again…….sorry hotmail yahoo and gmail.

Useful Links for Health

My Fitness Pal

We have been using this website in todays sessions to recod the food we have ate on a daily basis its compleatly free and is full of other usful information. why not give it a try and leave us a coment on how you like the site and if you find it useful.

Free online calorie counter and diet plan. Lose weight by tracking your caloric intake quickly and easily. Find nutrition facts for over 1000000 foods.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/