Cornwall Healthy Living Centre

About Us
West Cornwall Healthy Living Centre aims to help individuals and families in Penwith and Kerrier achieve a healthier lifestyle. Our Pathways to Health and Wellbeing project is targeting three groups: people living in deprived communities, people with low-level mental ill-health and people over 50.

Our current activities are:
CHLC database/web site in GP surgeries.
GP Plus: working with health professionals to signpost patients to wellbeing activities.
Volunteer recruitment scheme: recruiting volunteers to support individuals and wellbeing organisations/projects/activities.
Free complementary therapies for people living in deprived wards.
We Can Get Active Week: sports taster sessions for people with mental health problems.
Wellbeing workshops.
Healthy Living newsletter.

Planned for 2010 are:
Counseling service and complementary therapies for unemployed people.
We Can Keep Active follow-up sessions for people with mental health problems.
Wellbeing sessions, eg Tai Chi, healthy eating and keep fit classes. CHLC database/web site in GP surgeries.
GP Plus: working with health professionals to signpost patients to wellbeing activities.
Volunteer recruitment scheme: recruiting volunteers to support individuals and wellbeing organisations/projects/activities.
Free complementary therapies for people living in deprived wards.
We Can Get Active Week: sports taster sessions for people with mental health problems.
Wellbeing workshops
Healthy Living newsletter.
Visit the CHLC web site at www.wchlc.org.uk
Senior Volunteers Scheme for Older People:
This on going project aims to tackle isolation and increase social interaction by promoting volunteering activities and opportunities for older people and connecting volunteers and the elderly people together through a wide range of supporting services in Penwith.