Promoting Well Being

Councils, Trust and Communities take up the health and wellbeing challenge.

Over 700 people from Armagh City and District Council, Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council, Craigavon Borough Council, Banbridge District Council, Community Groups and the Southern Health and Social Care Trust completed a six week health and wellbeing challenge.

Sabrina Lynn, Physical Activity Co-ordinator, SHSCT, said, “The aim of the challenge is to encourage healthier lifestyles, by promoting the benefits of regular physical activity and healthy eating”.

Celebration events were held across the SHSCT to recognise and congratulate winning teams.  Clare Weir, Community Sport Active Inclusion Officer, said “This challenge enables individuals to work together as a team to promote their own health and wellbeing.  It has been great to get the 30 minutes daily physical activity and 5 a day message to so many”.

Mr Gerard Rocks, Head of Health Improvement, Promoting Wellbeing, SHSCT highlighted, “the Trust is committed to supporting initiatives such as this challenge in order to improve the health and wellbeing of  everyone in the local area”.

The 110 teams who completed the challenge accumulated a total of 974,860 minutes or 678 days of health enhancing moderate intensity physical activity over the 6 weeks.  This averaged out at approximately 40 minutes per person per day which shows that by the end of the challenge participants were achieving more than their daily recommended levels of physical activity.

The teams also consumed 69,358 portions of fruit and vegetables which equated to almost 70 shopping trolley’s full of fruit and vegetables!!

The prize winners were those teams who had shown the most improvement over the 6 weeks:

For the Southern Area:

• Overall Most Improved Workplace Team – Doc’s Doughnuts, Craigavon Borough Council
• Overall Most Improved Community/User Team – The Dreamers, The Laurels Day Centre, Newry

The Armagh & Dungannon Area:

• Most Improved Workplace Team –  Allsorts, ACDC
• Most Improved Community/User Team –  Losers Anonymous
• Runner Up Most Improved Workplace Team –  Litter Pickers, ACDC
• Runner Up Most Improved Community/User Team – Station Road Resource Centre 

The Craigavon & Banbridge Area:

• Most Improved Workplace Team – Banbridge High Strollers
• Most Improved Community/User Team – Crannagh & Aghagallon Club
• Runner Up Most Improved Workplace Team – K53 EOTAS - SELB
• Runner Up Most Improved Community/User Team – The Nifty Fifties Wednesday Team, Portadown

The Newry & Mourne Area:

• Most Improved Workplace Team – The Golden Delicious. Orchard day Centre
• Most Improved Community/User Team – Dreamers, The Laurels Day Centre
• Runner Up Most Improved Workplace Team –Mourne Stimulus Challengers: Mourne Stimulus
• Runner Up Most Improved Community/User Team – Honey Bee Buzzers

For more information about the Health & Wellbing challenge contact Sabrina Lynn on T. 028 3834 4973 or E. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it