We would like to update you on our activities at B healthy together for the first three quarters of the 2024-25 session. We will detail the highlights of the past year at B healthy together, of which there have been many. Our achievements have been punctuated by funding challenges, which has resulted in a smaller staff team. We have continued to be supported by a magnificent team of volunteers who helped to deliver our Friday walking group, Community meals, Create & Connect craft group and the adult and child Cooking Club.
At a glance, here are the number of sessions for each activity for the April-December 2024:
Community Meals: 27
Create & Connect: 32
Cooking Club: 15
Walking group: 39
Chair exercise: 29
Seated Yoga: 27
Stress Relief and Relaxation: 8
We started off the year with our AGM at which we celebrated the contribution of our volunteers and conveyed the highlights of the preceding year. Throughout this year, we have had the support of 17 volunteers. Soon after, we marked 10 years of our walking group with a celebration at the Botanic Gardens which included a walk and a quiz – we have included a photo below. Our craft group also had a little outing with our annual trip to Potter Around in Kirknewton – the ladies even started a sing-song on our journey to the venue!
Going into the school summer holidays, we supported local families through our cooking club and community meals. The Cooking Club collaborated with our friends at Space @ The Broomhouse Hub to run pizza-making workshops – you will see from the photos below that they were a hit for all involved. In August, we ran a community meal at St Nicholas Church for families to come together to eat and to enjoy some entertainment from a locally known magician, Tricky Ricky. We ended this quarter with a visit from Dr Barbara Phipps to our community meal who delivered a workshop on pain management.
In the Autumn, we ran our popular Stress Relief and Relaxation group – this is a programme run by our CEO and a local GP to the benefit of those who experience adverse effects of stress and anxiety. We then marked the festive season with celebrations across some of our activities, including a Christmas Community meal and festive crafts for the craft group.
We hope to have conveyed an essence of who we are and what we do at B healthy together. With your support, and that of other funders, we will continue to adapt in response to challenges that come our way so that we may continue weaving threads of Community and Wellbeing into the activities that we run in the South West of Edinburgh.
