We will focus on Accessibility, plus discuss plans for Loneliness Awareness Week.
Healthwatch East Sussex want to hear from local people about their experiences of health and care services in the area, and what could be done to improve things.
This April marks the 10th anniversary of Transition Town Hastings visioning day at the White Rock Hotel and the start of a veritable bouquet of actions, events and activities that have changed our town for the better over the past decade!
The most enduring has been the transformation of the area around Warrior Square station since 2015. From transforming a derelict and rubble-strewn hill into the stunning community garden on Platform 2, through the popular community notice-board, the biodiverse winding wildflower path and the awe-inspiring "Welcome to St Leonards' community mosaic, TTH members have contributed thousands of hours over ten years to improve our local neighbourhood for all who live and work here.
Next Tuesday, April 22nd, is Earth Day and we're celebrating the amazing achievement in the Warrior Square Station Garden.
You're invited to join TTH for refreshments at Platform 2, to share the spring beauty of the garden and catch up with old friends. We'll also be sowing wildflower seeds at The Space on St Johns Road, where Guerilla Joe has been hard at work clearing the sedge-choked, litter-strewn area to transform it into another beautiful new garden.
We look forward to celebrating 10 years of TTH and sharing a bit of spring sunshine with you!
Come learn how to sharpen your tools like a pro at our hands-on workshop! Join Transition Town Hastings as Learning to Grow 2025 kicks off with local horticulture expert, Sam Van Den Bogaerde, teaching us how to sharpen our loppers, spades and other garden tools.
As well as learning how to care for our tools, we’ll also be visiting an exciting new space that Hastings Borough Council has provided for Learning to Grow to use as a pop-up community “garden centre”.
Bring your own tools and gardening gloves. (If you don’t have either, just let us know when you book and we can provide.)
No experience necessary – we’ll be learning! Everyone welcome.
Free refreshments provided.
Places are limited, so booking is essential.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharpen-up-diy-tool-sharpening-workshop-t...
Food and Health, with Josh Broadway from the Sussex ICB.
Using a creative approach, and a ukulele the facilitator will discuss motivational interviewing and various tools to use when having in-depth conversations. Motivational interviewing is an evidence-based approach to behavioural change. It focuses on ‘change talk’ to determine what stage an individual is at in The Stages of Change Model. Motivational interviewing is a collaborative and goal-oriented style of communication that is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change. Motivational interviewing is a guiding style of communication that focuses on empowering individuals to change by drawing out their importance and capacity for change. It focuses on an individual’s strengths rather than weaknesses and is not a way to confront or instruct an individual on how to go about a behavioural change. Participants will gain an understanding of this approach and learn various techniques to apply in their own practice or day-to-day life. This course applies to anyone with an interest in the subject
We would like to invite you to our Hastings listening tour stakeholder workshop. The workshop brings together local VCSE and health and social care partners to discuss the issues affecting the local people, and how things could be improved. We will be exploring various topics including:
• Accessing primary care
• Social isolation
• Social determinants of health and wellbeing
Refreshments including a light lunch will be provided from 1:30pm, with the workshop beginning at 2pm. Feedback shared will be used to contribute to ongoing work to improve the health and wellbeing of local residents.
Please sign up via Eventbrite to confirm attendance: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-experiences-of-health-and-care-in-h...
Listening Tour Survey
Alongside our community engagement activities, we are also running our listening tour survey, which is open to anyone living in the Hastings and St Leonards area. The survey is available via this link: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/3Hastingslisteningtour/ and we can also provide hardcopies with freepost envelopes on request. Please do share this survey with the people you support, and please do get in touch if you would like further information.
Completion of this course will enable you to:
• Understand the role and responsibilities of a First Aider
• Be able to assess an incident
• Be able to provide first aid to an unresponsive casualty
• Be able to provide first aid to a casualty that is choking
• Be able to provide first aid to a casualty with external bleeding
• Know how to provide first aid to a casualty that is in shock
• Know how to provide first aid to a casualty with minor injuries
Please note: There is a £50 charge for this course.
This month's meeting theme is Intergenerational Work.
MECC (Making Every Contact Count) is a practical introduction to the skills in talking to people about the issues they are concerned about or the changes they are seeking to make. It is all about supporting people to identify and access the things that could help them. So if your work brings you into frequent contact with people and you want to improve the likelihood of making a real difference this training could be for you.
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