Text Box: Sunshine Healthy Living Project Helping people live healthier lives Update Summer 2007  

Text Box: Current projects ¨ Money Advice ¨ Women’s Advice Service ¨ Family Support ¨ Chair Based Exercise Classes ¨ Tisbury Fitclub ¨ Home Energy Advice ¨ Healthy Eating (please see over for contact details) Text Box: Sunshine Healthy Living Project, a partnership between seven local charities, Salisbury District Council and South Wilts PCT, is managed by Wessex Community Action and provides activities and services around Tisbury, Mere and Barford St Martin which aim to help people live healthier lives.  Wessex Community Action registered Charity No 1019716 Text Box: If you’d like to know more about the project contact: Jane Morgan or Julie Bennett on 01722 415600 email: mail@sunshinehealthyliving.co.uk    www.sunshinehealthyliving.org.uk         Text Box: Did you know?…. Þ Over £200,000 of debt has been handled by our CAB advisor for local clients Þ More than 200 people benefited from contacting the women’s rural advice service Þ Weekly exercise classes for the elderly are being held in     Tisbury and Mere Þ Healthy Eating workshops are taking place in local venues Text Box: What some of our clients said: ‘Thank you.  With your help we will have a better Christmas’ (about CAB debt advice service)  ‘Weekends are very lonely and the only beacon on the horizon is the Monday group’ (about Sunshine Support Group) ‘Everything was so well organised, friendly and easy to follow and has given me confidence to try many new ingredients’ (about the healthy eating workshops)

Text Box: Steve Kemp, of Shaw Trust, hands over Tisbury Community Garden to St John’s Primary School Picture courtesy of Salisbury Newspapers www.journalphotos.co.uk

Text Box: Over the last four years the Sunshine partnership has set up and run a wide range of projects—from debt advice to healthy eating workshops, community gardens to support for vulnerable young families.  As we move into our final year, some of our projects are preparing to hand their running over the local community (like the garden in Tisbury pictured below) and some are likely to be absorbed into the core work of the organisations running them.  None of this would have been possible without the wonderful support we’ve had from local people and we’re confident that this support will continue into the future.

 

Chair Based Exercise   01722 434274

Family Support  01722 744221

Healthy Eating  01722 345078

Home Energy Advice 0800 512012

Money Advice 01722 327222

Tisbury Fitclub 01722 434274

Women’s Advice Service 07769 681649 or 01722 421747

Sunshine Project Office
01722 415600

 www.sunshinehealthyliving.org.uk