Health

Overview

Improving the health of children, young people and adults is one of our main priorities and during the past three years the Trust has delivered weight management programmes to local families through the MEND (Mind,Exercise, Nutrition, Do it!) initiative.

The MEND programme provides opportunities for local families to attend workshops twice weekly for ten weeks the workshops include theory on health and nutrition, a supermarket visit to analyse product food labels and exercise sessions to raise levels of fitness.

In June, July and August this year the Community Trust were commissioned by the North Staffs NHS to deliver the exercise module of a new weight management programme which has evolved from consultation workshops with other experienced providers.