RECONNECTING OUR COMMUNITY

Our thanks first of all to Fleetwood Rugby Club for hosting this meeting. Mark Spencer welcomed everyone and was also congratulated on his excellent sub 4 hour time for the London Marathon only 2 days earlier. Mark’s movement around the room for the rest of the evening gave some idea of how much he was aching as a result! With the Healthier Fleetwood partnership now around a year old we do have to think about forming a body that can bid for funding, make decisions and deliver

It’s National Gardening Week and Healthier Fleetwood has brought together partners in the Town to provide some TLC for the gardens of housebound and isolated residents. Volunteers known as the ‘Fleetwood Gardens Buddies’ will be out and about undertaking tasks like mowing lawns and clearing paths. Some of the buddies are taking part after being referred by their GP, as a positive step towards improving their own health and wellbeing. Kate Baird, Wyre Council development offic

Hazel Stuteley of the C2 Connecting Communities team reports on the two-day event between Fleetwood and Middleport. "Health creation is the enhancement of health & well-being that occurs when individuals & communities achieve a sense of purpose, hope, mastery & control over their own lives & immediate environment." As co-founder of C2, I wrote this definition of health creation early last year when I couldn’t find a suitable quote on the Internet for what we’ve been witnessin