East Suffolk Council
Lowestoft and Northern Parishes Community Partnership
Chair
Priorities
- Improve mental health and wellbeing
- To Improve Healthy Eating in children by targeting and engaging with preschools/nurseries staff, children and parents via education and communication
- Reduce social isolation and loneliness
Other information
Latest news
With the current cost of living increases, our CP funded 10 Warm Rooms during the winter months at various locations across Lowestoft and the northern parishes. All warm rooms provided hot drinks and the CP also funded some activity packs and various board games for all. Excellent feedback and connections made at some venues and showed a real need within some communities/areas. With that in mind, 4 venues have continued which we have been renamed ‘Warm Welcome’. Warm Welcome is a place to meet people, form friendships, relax, play games or try a range of different activities that will help with reducing isolation, loneliness and improve overall wellbeing.
The CP also added further funding to the bespoke Winter Warm packs with value from £65 up to £100, to enable those in need to purchase items for the winter months.
Historic England as part of their Benjamin Brittain as a Boy Project is funding a virtual walk where he used to go as a boy and where his statue will be place in Lowestoft, (currently only a miniature is available whilst statue is being commissioned). Please go to The Lowestoft Mile website to view our current virtual walks.
As part of our priority to improve healthy eating, we have a pilot event named ‘Pulsate!’ Pulsate also matched funding from Lowestoft Rising is about promoting cooking with pulses (beans, lentils etc) to make cheap, nutritious meals for all the family. Pulsate is planned for the end of May.
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