Gateshead Family Fun Day Promotes Positive Mental Wellbeing in the Community
Media release
18 September 2014
Gateshead family fun day promotes positive mental wellbeing in the community
Sunday 28 September 2014, 12 – 3pm
Octagonal Green (behind Saltwell Towers) in Saltwell Park, Gateshead
Local young peopleandmilitary veteranswill play host to a family fun day at Saltwell Park in Gateshead later this month.
Over the summer, staff from regional charity Youth Focus: North East have been busy supporting Christ Church Youth and Community Project in Felling and horticultural charity Thrive, who have teamed up to host the one-off event as part of their Wellbeing Challenge Day project.
The theme for the family fun day, which takes place on 28 September between 12-3pm near Saltwell Towers in Saltwell Park, is ‘positive health and wellbeing’ and there will be lots of activities to try and stalls to visit on the day, from face painting and glitter tattoos to dance performances and a smoothie bike.
The Wellbeing Challenge Day project - part of the Big Lottery Funded Wellbeing in the East: Building Resilience in the East programme being delivered by Enable East - promotes awareness of mental health among young people, local communities and military veterans using the ‘five-a-day for wellbeing’ self-help tool.
Evidence suggests there are five steps to improving our mental wellbeing, including: be active, keep learning, connect, give to others and take notice. Through the Wellbeing Challenge Days, local people are given the opportunity to plan and develop an initiative, event, activity or campaign incorporating one or more of these categories from the self-help tool.
Hannah Shaw, Development Worker at Youth Focus: North East said: “Our Wellbeing Challenge Day project has been really successful over the past few months and we can’t wait to host this next event in Gateshead. The group are looking forward to seeing all their ideas come together, while raising the profile of mental health and wellbeing in the wider community, too.”
Youth Focus: North East is an award-winning charity based in Gateshead that works across the North East to improve the lives of young people. It delivers a number ofyouth-led programmes encompassing health, youth employment, education and the arts,and intergenerational work.
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Media enquiries:
Contact:Alexis Forsyth,Communications Officer on email: or tel: 0191 440 4410
Youth Focus: North East, Design Works, Felling, Gateshead, NE10 0JP. Tel: (0191) 440 4410. Find us at: twitter.com/YouthFocusNE or facebook.com/YouthFocusNE
Notes to editors:
About Youth Focus: North East
Established in 1989, Youth Focus: North East (formerly Regional Youth Work Unit – North East) is a regional hub connecting young people and the organisations and professionals who support them.
Progressive and dynamic, our award-winning organisation is rooted in the values of youth work. We support a network of over 1500 organisations and individuals concerned with improving the lives of young people. Supporting the development of quality services – we want young people to have the best from the organisations they access and the professionals who work with them.
We see the potential, not the problems, in young people. We develop responses and demonstration projects that attempt to address big issues in young people’s lives. We also create space for young people to explore different issues and ideas; working alongside them to formulate responses.
Youth Focus: North East amplifies the voice of young people so they can be heard and we open up doors to new opportunities for both young people and professionals across the North East.
About Enable East
Enable East is an innovative, independent NHS team that assists other health and social care organisations to deliver effective projects and measureable improvements.
About Wellbeing in the East
'Well-being in the East' is a £2.7 million portfolio of projects funded by the Big Lottery Fund that promotes healthy eating, increased physical activity and mental well-being in the East of England, the North East and Lincolnshire.The portfolio will deliver over two years from 2013 to 2015 led by Enable East working with more than28 other partner organisations.