Health and Fitness

Healthworks Cooking Up Healthy Eating Help for Newcastle Families
Dozens of families in Newcastle’s West End are set to get extra help with healthy eating thanks to a new initiative from an award-winning community charity and funding from Newcastle Building Society. Healthworks is using a £2,980 Society grant to organise a series of eight cookery demonstrations and workshops for...
Japanese Noodle Restaurant Creates DIY Kits For The Festive Season
NOODLE FANS CAN BRING THE JOY OF JAPAN TO THEIR OWN KITCHEN WITH SHORYU RAMEN’S AT HOME KITS THIS FESTIVE PERIOD Authentic Japanese noodle restaurant, Shoryu Ramen, has created delivery slots over the festive period for those wanting to order the popular DIY Shoryu Kit at home this Christmas and...
The Road to Recovery Trust, the organisation behind Newcastle’s only recovery café, George Street Social, has launched an emergency fundraising appeal as a last attempt to save the charity. The Trust provides safe spaces, hosts 12-step meetings, and is a supportive community for people in recovery from all kinds of...
England Footballer Becomes Ambassador For Children's Heart Charity
England and Manchester City player-coach, Jill Scott MBE, has taken on an ambassador role for a North East-based charity, which raises funds to help save the lives of children and adults needing coronary care. Jill has agreed to support the Red Sky Foundation, set up by Sunderland couple, Sergio and...
Climbing Mountain and Raising Awareness of Chronic Heart Disease
STAFF AND members of a Washington gym scaled The Old Man of Coniston to raise funds for a leading North East charity. Pinchaninch Body Transformation Centre owners Darren and Nichola Tyrie joined personal trainers and more than 60 of their gym regulars to climb the mountain at the Lake District...
'Fit Monkeys' Encouraging Children To Stay Fit During Covid-19
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...
Whitley Bay Boutique Hotel Accommodates NHS Frontline Workers Unable To Return Home
Whitley Bay Boutique Hotel Gives Rooms to NHS Frontline StaffOne of Whitley Bay’s newest hospitality businesses has allocated its apartments free of charge to NHS frontline staff who are unable to return home due to COVID. Stay Coastal is a luxury self-contained apartment complex with seven rooms and suites including...
Sex With Cancer - An Art Project Encouraging Dialogue On Illness, Intimacy and Pleasure
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...
Seven-year-old Wren Steer Raises £600 For Charity By Completing A Virtual Run
A seven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has raised £600 for charity by completing a virtual run using equipment provided by a leading Sheffield-based postural support specialist. Wren Steer, from Newcastle upon Tyne, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy from a young age due to complications that came as a result of...
Escape Interventions - Counselling Charity Seeking Out Assistance As Demand For Its Services Rise
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...

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