november 2011
newsletter from
Change4Life
Dear Change4Life Local Supporter,
Welcome to November’s issue of
the Change4Life newsletter, with
news of two exciting initiatives
we hope will have a lasting
effect on the nation’s health
and wellbeing.
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meals
While most people are making plans for
the festive season, here at Change4Life
we’re busy with big plans for the new
year. We hope you’ll join in with our
exciting Change4Life supermeals
campaign to help adults and families
plan their shopping so that they can
prepare quick, easy and healthier meals
on a budget.
Having successfully established 3,000 Change4Life
Sports Clubs and introduced over 60,000 secondary
school children to seven Olympic sports, we’re
delighted to be working with the Youth Sport Trust
to set up 4,500 Change4Life Sports Clubs in primary
schools to help children develop the skills and
confidence they need to get active for life.
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Supermeals
This January we’re keen to help people
get organised and plan for a healthier
lifestyle – and show that eating healthily
needn’t be unhealthy for anyone’s bank
balance.
Change4Life supermeals aims to show that, with a little careful
planning and some helpful hints and tips, we can save time,
money and eat better.
January
2
Going live on 2 January, the supermeals online tool is
jam-packed with ideas to support healthy meal planning.
Look out for Change4Life’s
exciting supermeals cookbook
– full of healthy and filling
recipes for every budget.
Next month find out more about Change4Life and all
the other exciting things we have planned.
Supporting Change4Life
Supermeals where
you are
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help others eat healthily and save money by shopping
more wisely? Here are some ideas to get you started:
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Cooking is a great activity for everyone and
even the pickiest of eaters are more likely
to try something new if they’ve spent time
making it - why not set up some cooking
classes to help the families and adults
you work with develop
confidence in cooking
completely from scratch.
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Want to set up some cooking
classes but not sure where to
start? Let’s Get Cooking run
‘train the trainer’ sessions training adults who work in a
professional or voluntary capacity
to go back to their workplaces or
communities to deliver healthy
cooking training to others.
The ever popular leaflets
Top Tips for Top Kids and
Swap it Don’t Stop it are
helpful when talking to
adults and families about
the small but significant
changes they can make
to improve their long
term health.
Holding an event, giving a presentation
or an assembly and want to explain what
Change4Life’s all about? We have a limited
number of DVDs featuring the original C4L
ad, me sized meals and 60 active
minutes available to order to
get the Change4Life message
across in an engaging and
entertaining way.
Don’t forget about the Change4Life
assets! Available to
all registered local
supporters, the assets
can be used to create
supermeals posters
and resources tailored
to your local area and
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Resources and tools can be downloaded from the
Tools section of our website or ordered FREE from
the DH orderline.
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Just because it’s cold
and gloomy doesn’t
mean that people need
to eat stodgy meals –
the Change4Life recipe
cards are full of ideas for
healthy winter warmers.
And keep an eye on the Partners and Supporters
section of the website. From December, we’ll be
updating the tools available to download to support
supermeals, including new teacher resources for Key
Stage 1-4 and supermeals copy for use in newsletters
and on websites.
Change4Life
Sports Clubs
Activity is great for health at any age
but some children and young people lack
the skills or confidence to enjoy physical
activity and sport and can find this a barrier
to getting their daily 60 active minutes.
Since 2010, Change4Life Sports Clubs
have been creating a network of schoolbased sports clubs that use Olympic and
Paralympic sports and values to motivate
and inspire less active children and young
people to participate in physical activity
and sport.
So far, 3,000 secondary clubs have been set
up, introducing over 60,000 young people
to seven Olympic and Paralympic sports.
Following this success – and working in
partnership with the Youth Sport Trust – this
exciting initiative will be extended to primary
schools. From January, 4,500 Change4Life
Sports Clubs will be created in primary
schools with the aim of developing the
sporting skills and confidence of less active
children in years 3 and 4.
Schools hosting a club will start to
receive the information and tools they
need to set up, deliver and sustain a club
from mid-December. Find out more about
this excellent programme to expand the
sporting opportunities for less active
young people across the country by
visiting www.nhs.uk/c4lsportsclubs
Lets go!
Supporter
of the
month
If you’re excited about Change4Life supermeals and want to
support the campaign, this month’s supporter of the month
will hopefully inspire you with how a national campaign can
be brought to life at a local level.
Crawley Wellbeing is a active Change4Life local supporter.
As part of the really big summer adventure they distributed
600 Change4Life goody bags through family and children’s
centres, community centres, summer fetes and summer day
camps across Crawley.
As well as the really big summer adventure voucher book, the goody bags
were stuffed full of Change4Life resources – including several that Crawley
Wellbeing has developed to address the needs of their local community,
focussing on issues such as weight management and men’s health.
Crawley residents were also able to pick up a voucher
book from their local leisure centre or through Crawley
Wellbeing’s Weight off Workshops and swimming
referral programme.
In September, their Wellbeing Outreach team took part in the
junior citizen event for Crawley’s primary schools. Over 1,000
young people aged 10 - 11 years old took part and the team
used snack swappers and fun wheels to teach them about healthy
eating and getting their daily 60 active minutes.
Crawley also boasts two of the top Walk4Life miles,
one in Goffs Park and the other in Worth Park,
which are proving to be the most popular walks on
the Walk4Life website, having been downloaded
700 times and 632 times respectively. To put this in
context - their nearest challenger is a walk in Durham
that has only been viewed 391 times!
To find out more about the excellent
work Crawley Wellbeing is doing visit
http://www.crawleywellbeing.org.uk/
Become a Change4Life
Supporter of the Month
Healthy Bites
Here’s a round up of other useful info, in bite-size chunks:
Coming soon...
Over the next few months we’ll be updating
you on our plans for an alcohol awareness
phase of Change4Life in February, not to
mention keeping you posted on Change4Life’s
activity to tie in with next summer’s Olympics.
Please keep signing up!
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own materials using the brand assets.
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or activities you’ve run – and help us to recruit and
inspire more campaign supporters in the process. Why
not take a few minutes to tell us what you’ve been up
to and complete the survey here and who knows, you
could feature in this newsletter next month!
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