and vegetables at your local allotment? Or would you prefer a game of scrabble over a cup
of tea at one of the many friendship clubs in Wallington?
Whether you’re looking for a new hobby or just feeling lonely and want to make new friends,
come along to St Michael’s Centre Milton Road to find out what’s on in Wallington. We
guarantee you’ll find an activity that will tickle your taste buds.
Group, to promote local groups and activities as a way of helping to overcome loneliness
and social isolation among over 50’s in their local Wallington community, and will be
celebrating the launch of its community what’s on activities calendar on Friday 11 March
2016 at a special event.
Visitors to the event will have an opportunity to meet representatives of local organisations
and activities groups as well as speak to local voluntary and statutory service providers who
will be promoting service aimed at the over 50’s. You can also have a health check by
LiveWell or attend a wellbeing workshop hosted by Uplift.
Whether you need information or advice on benefit entitlement, social opportunities or living
a more active, safe and happier life in Wallington, or you just want to come along to observe
what’s available locally, then this is the event for you.
Join the members of the Wallington Community Wellbeing Group, Tom Brake MP, Sutton
Older People’s Champion Councillor Nali Patel, Deputy Mayor Councillor Joyce Melican and
your local councillors at this special launch event.
Wallington Community Wellbeing launch event, Friday 11 March 2016, 11.30 – 2.30pm, at
the St Michael’s Centre, Milton Road, Wallington SM6 9RP.
Admission is free and light lunch will be served.
Background to Wallington Community Wellbeing Group (WCWG)
WCWG is a community project started by local community leaders who identified loneliness
and social isolation as a problem in their local area. The group, made up of local residents,
council officers and representatives from commissioned voluntary sectors organisations,
decided that they would focus their work on 3 main themes:
Raising awareness of the issue of loneliness in the local community and encouraging
people to be good neighbours.
Collating information about local activity and resources and sharing it.
Supporting local groups and activity organisers to reach those members of the
community normally hard to reach.
What the project does
There exists a wide range of social and leisure activities for people of all ages in Wallington
and its surrounding area. There are groups for those wishing to participate in social, cultural,
faith, community, health & wellbeing and environmental activities.
What WCWG will do is promote these activities to the wider community, particularly focusing
on the most hard to reach, to help as many people as possible to stay healthy and actively
involved in their local community.
Objectives
The main objective of the WCWG project is to help the most vulnerable adults in its local
community to be more aware of what’s going on in their local neighbourhood and be able to
get access to the right information. That means we will aim to:
Get the right information and advice to the right people
Promote and celebrate what the local area has to offer
Build capacity by assisting the development of social groups and leisure
activities.
Engage with other stakeholders to share information, good practice and news of
local events and activity.
Details
For more information contact Christine Lindsay (Chair of WCWG) on 020 8647 3000 or
email [email protected]