Category Archives: Health & Wellbeing

Helping yourself to feel safe when out and about

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As lockdown eases and we start thinking about getting out more, it’s natural that some people may be feeling anxious or unsure about going out.  British Red Cross have some really helpful advice about making a personal risk judgement and building your confidence here: https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-help/coronavirus/judging-risk-when-going-out

Consider your own needs, and those closest to you
Acknowledge the source of stress, and how it impacts upon you
Listen to how you’re feeling mentally and physically
Manage ways to manage your stress and regain control
Enable – what has enabled you to cope with stress in the past?
Resource – what do you need to put steps in place?

Bowel Cancer Awareness – know the signs

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April is Bowel Cancer Awareness month.   More than 16,000 people die from bowel cancer in the UK every year – that’s 44 people every day. But is very treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early, and nearly everyone survives if diagnosed at the earliest stage.  So it’s important to know the signs – spotting the signs and sypmtoms could save your life!

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If you have one or more of these, or if things just don’t feel right, talk to your GP.

Find out more at https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/

Monday Mind Workout answers for Monday 26th April 2021

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Good morning,
This week’s Monday Mind Workout was themed around 1960s music groups. How did you do?
1.ON LOSERS GLINT ROLLING STONES
2 DAMN, MAN FERN MANFRED MANN
3 THREE CRASHES THE SEARCHERS
4 EHT SWOSAHD THE SHADOWS
5 SOURNESS OF HATE THE FOUR SEASONS
6 POTENT TEAM HITS THE TEMPTATIONS
7.DINKY FLOP PINK FLOYD
8.LET HATES BE THE BEATLES
9. THE LOOSE DUMBY THE MOODY BLUES
10 IF CRAFT TRAFFIC
11 HEY BOTCH BASE THE BEACH BOYS
12 TWO FACED MOLE FLEETWOOD MAC
13. A REPACKAGED TEN RHYMERS GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS
14. SHORT ODE THE DOORS
15. OTE HHW THE WHO

‘Monday Mind Workout’ – Monday 26th April 2021

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Good morning,
This week’s Monday Mind Workout is themed around 1960s music groups. Good luck!
1.ON LOSERS GLINT
2 DAMN, MAN FERN
3 THREE CRASHES
4 EHT SWOSAHD
5 SOURNESS OF HATE
6 POTENT TEAM HITS
7 DINKY FLOP
8 LET HATES BE
9. THE LOOSE DUMBY
10.IF CRAFT
11. HEY BOTCH BASE
12. TWO FACED MOLE
13. A REPACKAGED TEN RHYMERS
14. SHORT ODE
15. OTE HHW

Bedford Fields Community Gardening Day: Saturday 1st May 2021

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Bedford Fields Community Forest Garden

Their regular monthly community gardening days are back! You can drop in for a couple of hours and help. There are lots of different jobs to do for all ages and abilities…to keep you all safe they will work in small socially distanced groups in several different areas of the garden.
Due to COVID they sadly CANNOT supply their usual FOOD AND DRINK for volunteers… please bring your own
If you have your own gloves please bring them too. (If not we have some clean gloves we can lend you).
No need to book but please drop us a message if you are thinking of coming along. Hope to see you there.

Leeds Refills zero waste shop on Hyde Park Corner

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“A Leeds dad on a mission to help people cut their plastic waste has opened his own zero waste weigh-and-pay shop on Hyde Park Corner. It is opposite the Woodhouse Moor on Woodhouse Lane, and next door to the tattoo shop.

Customers can either bring in their own containers or use paper bags from the shop and fill them up items such as dry food goods, toiletries, household cleaners, kitchen and homeware”

Continue reading below:
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/…/leeds-refills-zero…May be an image of indoor

image sourced from Yorkshire evening post article – see link above

‘Hybrid Bingo this week’: online and in person’

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With an upturned bin, two camping chairs, and some sticky back plastic…. more of us could join together this month for our regular monthly Bingo. Thanks to this make shift space it meant another 5 were able to join us (6 including myself), which made a heartwarming baker’s dozen.

I will be hosting some more in the coming months so if you would like to join us then please do get in touch. Email: lisa@caringtogether.org.uk or call 07436 530073.