Health Champions help others to enjoy healthier lives by raising awareness of health and healthy choices, sharing healthy messages, removing barriers and creating supportive networks. They are able to engage, empower and motivate people to get involved in healthy social activities, shape services to meet locally identified need and sign post people to relevant support and services.

They can bring their own life experiences to improve health and well-being within their communities, including their individual circles of families, friends and workplaces.

Activities:

Be a voice of the community, Discuss general health and wellbeing with friends, families and those in the local community,Providing and receiving Peer Support, Inspire people to incorporate the 5 ways to wellbeing, Learn to offer information & signposting to health awareness and well-being advice, such as Healthy Lifestyle Advisors, engage individuals and groups in activities that promote their personal and community health.

Our current opportunities include: Health Champions

Address:

Addenbroke House,

Ironmasters way,

Telford

Shropshire

TF3 4NT

Contact:

Kerry Davies

Tel: 01952 385114

Email: healthchampions@telford.gov.uk

Facebook: www.facebook.com/telfordhealthchampions