Tower Hamlets
Tower Hamlets residents – health and wellbeing support this winter
If you are a Newlon resident living in Tower Hamlets there are a range of local services you can access to support wellbeing and mental health all year round and during the winter months.
How Newlon can help
Our Financial Inclusion team work to support residents experiencing hardship and to provide cost of living advice and support. You can find information about how the team can help you at Welfare and financial inclusion – Newlon Housing Trust
Help yourself and others – Thrive LDN
Help Yourself and Others focuses on things that enable good wellbeing, alongside free wellbeing training opportunities. For those who need it, you’re only one click away from more direct support, such as NHS talking therapies or urgent helplines.
Whether you’re looking for yourself, or to help a friend or others in your community, explore simple tools, ideas and inspiration to help improve wellbeing.
https://thriveldn.co.uk/hyo-categories/tools-and-ideas-for-better-wellbeing/
Social networks and connections
Staying connected is more important than ever. Strong, supportive relationships – whether family or with the wider community and faith groups – are one of the most important factors to help us thrive.
Here you will find many ways to connect in-person and digitally which includes some free resources to support you and others to stay connected, alongside how you can help to build a greater awareness of loneliness, remove the stigma, and promote social connection.
Finding support for you
If you are finding it hard are looking for specialist support for mental health and wellbeing, here are some sources of support and useful ways to get support.
Explore free resources, online tools and information to help you look after your mental wellbeing.
From thriveldn.co.uk/hyo-categories/resources-for-community-groups/
This includes:
- Support for LGBTQ+ Londoners
- Support for people from racialised communities
- Support for young Londoners
- Support for older Londoners
Support is available for whatever you are going through, there is hope and you are not alone.
https://thriveldn.co.uk/hyo-categories/urgent-and-other-support/
Get healthy in parks
Tower Hamlets has over 120 parks and green spaces for everyone to enjoy. From small pocket parks to garden squares and parks of national repute, they are loved by our residents.
13 of Tower Hamlets parks hold Green Flag Awards and hold 9 gold awards from London in Bloom.
Parks are great places to unwind. Sitting and relaxing in a pleasant green environment and spending a moment in touch with nature helps to reduce stress levels and improves your well-being.
Tower Hamlets parks also offer a great variety of opportunities for a more active lifestyle. Sports and play facilities can be found in this guide.
Walk Tower Hamlets have walking groups across the borough open to everyone. Find out more about walking in Tower Hamlets.
If you want to improve your health and fitness but don’t know how to get started, the Tower Hamlets Healthy Lifestyles team can offer advice and information on a range of activities.
Mile End parkrun: A free, fun, and friendly weekly 5k community event. Walk, jog or run. This is a free event every Saturday. Advance registration is required.
There are outdoor gyms in parks across the borough. The gyms have a variety of equipment for strength workouts, cardio, toning, calisthenics.
Mind in Tower Hamlets
Our aim is to help people in our local communities to have better mental health and wellbeing and to live the best lives possible. We do this by providing a range of services to meet local needs, including:
Mental Health Support, Wellbeing Groups, Talking Therapies, Employment support, Advice and Information as wells as Advocacy services.
Contact:
Open House, 13 Whitethorn Street London E3 4DA
Tel: 020 7510 1081
Email: info@mindthnr.org.uk
Recovery wellbeing groups and activities
These groups and activities offer you the chance to meet people in a safe, relaxed environment to share experiences, learn, make new friends, have fun and take some time out from everyday worry. You can also learn mental health skills to help you on your recovery journey.
You’ll be around people who also have experience of mental health challenges and can understand what you’re going through. Most of our groups are led by people who have used our services and want to give something back.