Healthy Living Promoted at People's Day

We recently took part in a big health promotion at the recent Lewisham People's Day event. On Saturday July 13 the Health department of our church met the community to help them with their health at the annual community event. The health promotion turned out to be a big hit with many of the attendees of the event held in Lewisham's Mounstfield Park.

Lewisham People's Day is a free event put on by Lewisham council each summer and features live music, entertainment and stalls from various community groups and organisations. Lewisham church took the opportunity to spread the message of good all-round health to those who passed by their stall.

At the Lewisham church stall many people were given free health checks, advice by doctors, a drink of water - which was well-received on the hottest day of the year so far!, a slice of watermelon, or even a place to rest! The rest area was comprised of several easy chairs and went down well with weary attendees, happy for a chance to sit.

During the day hundreds of people passed through the stall and in addition to the nearly 250 health checks given, attendees took advantage of free advice on health and nutrition as well as free books and other reading material which were available.

In general, people were very interested in finding out about the state of their health and doing something to help improve it and so they lined up for their chance to learn more and the action they could take.
Sonia Swaby, Lewisham Church's Health Leader said the health stall was very well received by those who attended, and that she has plans for follow-up programs at the church to offer interested persons more to help them improve their health.