Healthworks

Healthworks is an award-winning charity, working across the North East region with people of all ages to enable them to lead longer, happier and healthier lives. From the antenatal period onwards, we offer a range of services that help and support people to; reduce the risk of preventable ill-health, become more active, eat more healthily, give up smoking, improve mobility, reduce the risk of a fa

ll, improve mental wellbeing, have a healthier lifestyle and manage existing medical conditions. The Health Improvement Practitioners support community lifestyle changes and deliver change behaviour interventions, including NHS Health Checks, to reduce obesity, smoking and to***co dependency with hospital in-patients and support healthy nutrition (including Type 2 Diabetes). In addition, the team work with the NHS to support cardiac rehab, rehab for people with chronic joint pain, cancer awareness, reducing falls, long covid, peripheral arterial disease and a range of physical activity opportunities for those with an existing or ongoing condition. We also deliver Waiting Well across the North East, a programme offering targeted support to certain groups of patients waiting for surgery in the North East. The Health Promotion Team deliver a range of activities and training including;

Accredited Royal Society For Public Health training,
Cancer Awareness sessions and activities,
Community Cancer Champion training,
Healthy eating information and activities,
Healthy cooking sessions,
Activities for parents/carers and their children,
Holiday activities for families. Healthworks is supporting Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and surgeries across Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside and Northumberland to help address health inequalities and improve cancer outcomes, in line with The Northern Cancer Alliance workplan and the DES guidelines. Working with parents and families, we provide antenatal and breastfeeding information and support through the Best Start team of trained staff and volunteers. The team are trained to provide practical and emotional support to women from conception to birth and we offer information to enable people to make informed choices about how to feed their baby. Our Pre-school in Lemington offers nursery places for two, three and four year-olds

Zoneworks (inc Zone West) is a support programme to enable children to flourish in life for outcomes in education, health and community settings. The child is at the centre of a network of relationships and resources, and we work hard to make the organisation of resources reflect this core priority. We have two fully equipped gyms in Benwell and Lemington, and a weekly programme of exercise classes.