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Health & Well-Being

The aim of the Health & Well-Being Project is to provide the Foundation's tenants and the wider ex-Service community with effective use of the Foundation's facilities, activities and services that will not only reduce isolation and exclusion, but improve their health and well-being so that they are enabled to live more independently. The Foundation is grateful to The Royal British Legion for funding for the Health & Well-Being Manager position for a three year period.

We have already begun to establish partnerships with local providers of health and well-being services and to engage current tenants to utilise on-site community facilities by delivering a range of activities that will meet their own specific needs. Once this project is running effectively as a model of provision for a Health & Well-Being Centre, we will begin outreach work to the wider ex-Service community.

Outcomes to be achieved over the three years:

The provision of 195 sessions in year one, 312 sessions in year two and 364 sessions in year three
3,900 individual visits taken in year one, 4,800 in year two and 5.460 in year three
The introduction of qualitative measures to illustrate the level of improvement in an individual's quality of life and to capture what these services have meant to each resident personally

Some of our activities to date include:

Active research on what the current facilities offered by the Foundation are; how other centres operate and have established the types of activities and services that would benefit our tenants
Alternative therapy programmes including Ki energy treatment and Massage Therapy
Fitness classes including Pilates and a relaxation group
Various socials & trips
Workshops such as Falls Prevention

The services proposed through the Health & Well-Being Project over the next three years include:

Healthy Eating Campaign that will incorporate a set of cooking classes that will teach tenants about how to prepare healthy meals as well as proper nutrition and food hygiene
Keep Fit Programme that will provide weekly exercise classes such as yoga and tai chi, dance lessons and a swimming club
Internet Cafe that will include: a film and book library, a reader's corner where tenants can have a cup of tea while reading through the current newspapers and latest current affairs magazines, as well as beginner computer classes and specialist IT workshops
An on-site gym that will provide a safe place for tenants to exercise and keep fit with friends