Put on your walking shoes
1-2-3 Walks East Sussex is a Health & Wellness website regularly updated with direction and printer-friendly maps for short rambles around local green spaces. These are one, two and three-mile routes, intended to help walkers notice nature, enjoy exercise and…
FOOTBALL
United Host SheGoals Project Believing that the Beautiful Game transcends all social barriers, Hastings social enterprise Eggtooth is combining with the United club to promote a new project in women’s football. The title they have given it is SheGoals –…
Help Build a Nest for The Egg!
Like a cuckoo, the Eggtooth Project has been doing its amazing work without a place to call its own. Since 2012, its work with young people and families to tackle academic underachievement, mental health issues and lack of opportunity in…
Autism: Exercise Rules Relaxed
People with autism and learning disabilities may now go out for exercise up to three times a day. The government has changed the outdoor exercise rules after being threatened with court action over claims that the one-trip-out-a-day limit disproportionately affected…
Arts on Prescription Goes Online
Arts on Prescription (AoP) is a free service set up in June 2019 to reduce loneliness and isolation for those who face challenges accessing activities in the community – including long term health issues, being a carer, lack of confidence…
To All The Men I’ve Loved…
We’re at the end of November, which marks Men’s Health Awareness month. Sanne van Baalen reflects on the men in her life who are struggling with their mental health and she writers a letter to each of them here. To…
Top Tips To Support Children’s Mental Wellbeing
Young people in East Sussex are offering ‘top ten tips’ to help parents and carers support children’s mental health after a survey of almost 1,000 people found children, parents and carers had different ideas on what helps youngsters’ emotional wellbeing.…
Recognising those who give up their time to help support others
Local mental health services are celebrating the volunteers who give up their free time to offer kindness and support to people using specialist services and hospitals when they are at their most unwell. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which provides…
Drive For Mental Health Nurses – The Ins And Outs
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health and learning disability services in Sussex, is in line for an award for its campaign recruiting 150 new mental health and learning disability nurses during the past 12 months. Its ‘Not…
Small Town, Open Mind
By Pete Donohue The Hastings & St. Leonards community has a history of all-inclusiveness and speaking its mind that stretches back over many years. Through 2017 we continue that tradition and in these times of politically motivated national divisiveness coming…