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The Stay Safe and Well this Spring event in Ongar and Sheering proved popular with residents with more than 100 people attending.
Stay safe and healthy this spring
This health and wellbeing event was aimed mainly at older residents and featured information stands, informative talks and health checks, all aimed at helping residents to stay safe and healthy during the spring.
20 health checks were carried out by Terrence Higgins Trust and Essex Wellbeing Service across the 2 events with Essex County Fire and Rescue service making bookings for visits to carry out home safety checks.
There was a seated exercise session and Arc Theatre Company presented an interactive session on scamming. There was also free information bags, seated exercise session and lunch.
Advice and support
Providers on hand offering advice and support on the day were:
- Essex Police
- East of England Ambulance Service
- Essex County Fire and Rescue Service
- EFDC Safer Community
- St Clare Hospice
- Epping Forest Foodbank
- EFDC Community Health and Wellbeing
- Alzheimer’s Society
- Crimestoppers
- VAEF
- Careers First
- Essex Wellbeing Service
- Age Well East
- Safer Essex Road Partnership
- National Energy Action
- Find your active
- Essex Library Service
- NHS talking therapies
- Rainbow services
- The International Education Group (promoting Multiply)
- Women’s Institute
This was a free event organised by the Community Development and Wellbeing team at Epping Forest District Council (EFDC), which was part funded by the Community Safety Partnership.
Day full of activities and information
A Community Champion who volunteered at the Sheering event said:
Residents of Sheering Villages were pleased to have the opportunity to attend a very informative, stimulating and interactive event in their own village hall. This is the first time ‘Stay Safe and Well this Spring’ has been held in Sheering and, for those residents who have limited access to wider facilities and services across the district, they particularly benefited from and appreciated such an event coming to them.
An attendee of the Ongar event said:
An enjoyable day of activities and information. Thank you for all your hard work.
A resident who attended the Sheering event said:
The speakers were all so good. I learnt a lot I didn’t know.
A representative from St Clare Hospice said:
We spoke to a lot of people and had some meaningful and positive conversations. We were also able to help a lady that needed our clinical services, so I am so glad we were there to help her. It was a lovely event with a great atmosphere and a wonderful receptive audience who were there to learn and gain information.
For further information regarding the Stay Safe and Well this Spring events please contact Older Peoples Officer, Karren Murray;
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