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Bag a healthy bargain
Posted by Wirral PCT Health and Wellbeing Team on October 23, 2007 3:25 PM
A scheme which supports people to eat healthily and helps the environment has celebrated its first birthday.
Wirral Bag a Bargain offers local communities access to cheaper locally grown fruit and vegetables.
When it was launched the initiative operated out of just three venues in the Tranmere and Rock Ferry areas, providing residents with access to quality fruit and vegetables and salad at a cost of just £2.50 a bag. Following a successful bid for Neighbourhood Renewal Funding the number of venues has grown to eight and there are plans to expand into other neighbourhoods and schools across Wirral.
The scheme sells around 190 bags per week and the aim is to double that. Since its launch more than 8,600 bags have been sold.
Bag a Bargain was set up as part of Together, the Neighbourhood Management Pathfinders’ Healthy Neighbourhood plan, which is led by Wirral Primary Care Trust (PCT) in partnership with residents. Its success is largely due to the involvement of local volunteers who help run the scheme. Together recently appointed Green Apprentices (the organisation helping unemployed young people access training and employment) to support residents in delivering Bag a Bargain.
Bag a Bargain is also part of the Healthy Start Scheme, which means that mums or pregnant women can exchange their Healthy Start Vouchers for bags of fruit, vegetables or salad at any of the Bag a Bargain venues.
Bag a Bargain operates out of the following venues every Tuesday between
12 and 3 p.m.
• St Paul’s Church, Tranmere
• Tranmere Community Project
• Courtney Road Community House (Woodward Estate), Rock Ferry
• St. Peter’s Church, Rock Ferry
• Beechwood Advice Centre
• Clover Drive Community House, North Birkenhead
• St James Centre, Laird Street, Birkenhead
For more information please contact Debbie Masters on 644 4830.
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Wallasey YMCA
Posted by Administrator on October 23, 2007 3:25 PM
Wallasey YMCA
Contact Tracey Craze
Email Traceyymca@aol.co.uk
Telephone 0151 639 5733
Address
Wallasey YMCA, Manor Road, Egremont, Wallasey, CH44 0EW
About us
We are a Youth and Community Center which provides After School Activities for children and young people. We also run youth projects that are focused on issue based activities.
We run different activities for adults and have a fitness suite and excercise classes. We have room hire spaces that are suitable for meetings and conferences
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Greasby Infant School
Posted by Administrator on October 11, 2007 1:02 PM
Greasby Infant School
Contact Jacqui Callander
Email Greasby Infant School
Telephone 0151 677 2830
Fax 0151 641 0098
Address Barker Lane, Greasby, Wirral, CH49 3NX
About us
At our school, we teach children from 4 years to 7 years old. We aim to help them to achieve their full potential in a secure and happy environment. We encourage our children to develop an attitude of care and responsibility and would like them to share their news and events with the local community.
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Open Day
Posted by Wallaseymans' Club on October 4, 2007 4:02 PM
Coinciding with the final day of its Beer Festival, the Wallaseyans' Club Open Day will be held on Sunday, 14th October from 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. at the Clubhouse 142, Grove Road, Wallasey.
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Open Day
Posted by Wallaseymans' Club on October 4, 2007 3:43 PM
Coinciding with the last day of the Annual Beer Festival will be the Wallaseyans' Club Open Day.
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Don't risk flu this winter
Posted by Wirral PCT Health and Wellbeing Team on October 4, 2007 10:53 AM
Wirral health officials are urging people to take up their invitation to have the flu jab.
Every year more than a million people in England put their health at risk by not taking up the free vaccination.
People over the age of 65 automatically receive a free flu jab and last year in Wirral three-quarters of people in this age group took up their invitation to be immunised.
However, among other groups of people who are not elderly but are vulnerable to ‘flu because they have certain conditions, the take-up was a very low 40%.
Some people are more vulnerable to the effects of flu - they include people with diabetes, asthma, serious heart or respiratory conditions, kidney, or liver disease, lowered immunity due to disease or treatment, multiple sclerosis, or conditions of the nervous system, and those who have had a stroke.
The flu immunisation drive - and a similarly pro-active Keep Warm, Keep Well campaign - forms part of an annual integrated NHS and Social Care initiative supporting people to take better care of their health and wellbeing. Last year the campaign messages reached an estimated 34.1m people.
The key flu immunisation campaign messages this year include:
•Flu is much more serious than a cold. It can lead to hospitalisation or even death
•It is particularly dangerous to the over 65s and younger people in at-risk groups (e.g asthmatics, diabetics etc…)
•The flu jab does not give you flu
•The flu jab lasts for up to 12 months, so you need a new one each year
•Take steps to reduce the spread of flu – cover your mouth when coughing or sneezing and wash hands regularly to avoid picking up/spreading viruses
•To find out more, talk to your GP, nurse or pharmacist or visit www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
or www.dh.gov.uk
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Wallaseyans' Club
Posted by Administrator on October 2, 2007 11:13 AM
Wallaseyans' Club
Contact Will Chipchase
Website Wallaseymans' Club
Email Will Chipchase
Telephone 01516392832
Address 142 Grove Road, Wallasey, Merseyside, Ch45 0JF
About us
A social club that has been in existence since 1905 offering recreational facilities through in-house interest groups - snooker, bowls, art group, wine society, monthly live entertainments, weekly live music (Jazz on Thursdays) for members of the local community.
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