Health and social care champions, Newcastle Healthwatch and Gateshead Healthwatch, are looking to recruit volunteers who want to make a difference to local services.
Volunteers play a vital role in helping people have their say on health and social care. Volunteering with Healthwatch can help develop skills, gain experience and...
Across the UK, the NHS sees 506,100 hospital admissions attributable to smoking, and ‘Stoptober’ is here to help reduce this number. Stoptober is a month-long campaign to help those who want to quit smoking start their journey to becoming smoke-free through community support, health resources and increased awareness on...
A leading North East heart charity is using the hit dance tune Baby Shark to teach school children how to save a life.
Since its launch in 2016, Red Sky Foundation has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds to help towards funding hospital machines and placed numerous defibrillators in towns...
David Lloyd Clubs kicks-off Team PB
Six-week post-lockdown recovery programme now live!
Former MP, author and trainee Personal Trainer Tom Watson included in the team
The UK’s leading health and fitness group David Lloyd Clubs, alongside psychologist Dr Jessamy Hibbard and nutritionist Jenna Hope, have today launched Team PB –...
New research released today suggests that the North East public would back Government plans to include health and nutritional information on alcohol products.
If you didn’t know a glass of wine can contain similar calories as a slice of pizza, or a pint of lager similar to a Mars Bar...
A South Tyneside young people’s counselling and support services charity is calling for help to fund ongoing operational costs after a challenging year aiding more than 300 families and children facing difficulties.
South Shields-based, Escape Intervention Services, is seeing rising demand for its services post-lockdown from young people aged from...
Mental Health Awareness Week is the ideal opportunity to focus on psychological wellbeing - our own and our family’s.
Emotional literacy means knowing how to talk about mental health and how to improve it and the best way to intervene when a loved one is struggling. Former primary school teacher...
An award-winning sports coach is launching a new venture to encourage 5–12-year-olds to get fit after a year in lockdown.
Matthew Lawn from Killingworth, the brains behind the Football Squirts Academy, and his partner Ashleigh Dobbs are opening Fit Monkeys, a new concept of fun-based physical education (PE) classes, that...
Spreading a little hap-pea-ness this spring, national food charity FoodCycle will launch its first-ever challenge event on 1st April.
Taking place across April, the FoodCycle 50 Challenge will see participants set a 30-day fitness target around the number 50 – from cycling 50 miles per week to a daily...
An art project and community enterprise that looks at innovative solutions to the often-ignored problem of illness, intimacy, sexual function and pleasure, has been launched. Sex with Cancer, conceived by friends, artists and former cancer patients Brian Lobel and Joon Lynn Goh, aims to be the world’s first sex shop led, run...
