At the Living Well Hub you can access a range of health services, as well as wellbeing and mental health support, advice for families and carers, healthy lifestyle guidance, coffee mornings, and more!
Some services need an appointment, but many are available to just drop in. To find out who's at the Hub this month take a look at our timetable below. You can also follow us on Facebook or pop in for a chat.
May timetable
Monday: Healthy lifestyles and women’s health
The hub will be closed on Monday 4th and Monday 25th May
- Crisis Café – Mental Health Matters – 9.30am – 12.00pm - Mental Health support
- Department for work & pensions: 9am to 12pm - Training and benefit advice
- Domestic abuse: 1pm to 3.30pm - Confidential support for victims.
- Healthwatch Warrington Drop In: 10am to 1pm - About Me & General Health & Social Care
- IDVA Drop in for Males: 1.30pm – 4.30pm - Safety planning and emotional support. Advocacy with services and professionals. Guidance around legal option
- Keyring: 10am to 3pm - safe place to come make new friends, have some support to complete forms, make phone calls, do some activities, link into other organisations.
- Livewire Weight Management: 9.30am to 11.30am - Support for those with a BMI over 30.
- Macmillan Cancer Support: 9.30am to 12pm - Support for anyone affected by cancer.
- Long-acting reversable contraception. (LARC) 18th April- 6pm to 8pm - Please ask staff for a referral form. (Appointment Only)
- Merseycare Learning Disability Wellbeing Group: 1pm to 4pm - Peer support group for those living with learning disabilities.
- IPS Employment Support for Women Drop In: 11th May, 1.30pm – 4.30pm - Support women who have a mental health condition to achieve meaningful full-time or part-time employment.
- Strong Girls Group: 18th May - 6.30pm - 8.30pm - Supporting women through miscarriage, still birth and fertility. (Third Monday of the month) Self-refer via: [email protected]
- Talking Point: 1pm to 4pm: Connecting you to the support you need.
- Treasure Her: 11th May 1.15pm to 3pm or 6:15pm to 8pm. Women’s Wellbeing group. Peer support for women. Come for a brew and a chat. Treasure@treasureyourwellbeing.co.uk
- Treasure Her Book Club: 20th April 6.15pm to 8pm - Women’s Wellbeing reading group.
- Travel Choices: (Starting 13th April) 9.30am – 12.30pm - To provide sustainable transport options and initiatives including bus/train travel and active travel initiatives walking/cycling
Tuesday: Ageing well & Dementia
- Age UK Mid Mersey: 5th May - 1.30pm to 3:30pm - Helping people 50+ to live well (1st Tuesday of the month)
- Dementia and Delirium Support: 1pm to 3pm - Support provided by dementia nurses.
- Dementia, Still Me group: 5th and 19th May - 1.30pm to 3pm - Memory Games and chat (1st & 3rd Tuesday)
- Speak Up Dementia Rep 12th and 26th May: 1.30pm – 3pm - Support and advise for those affected by dementia.
- Healthwatch Warrington: 10am to 2pm - Homecare Feedback
- Hearing Aid Battery Collection: 9am to 12.30pm - Collect replacement hearing aid batteries.
- Lifetime Dementia Café: 12th May, 1:30pm to 3pm - Support and dementia friendly activities (change this month - normally 2nd Tuesday of the month)
- Livewire Healthy Lifestyles: 9.30am to 12pm - Active aging dementia-friendly exercise advice.
- Warrington Carers Hub: Craft group, 5th May 10am to 12pm - One-on-one support for unpaid carers.
Wednesday: Children and Families
- Child to Parent abuse Drop In: 1pm – 3pm. Supports families experiencing harm from their child aged 6 to 17, providing tailored therapeutic support to support them to adopt healthy strategies to manager their behaviours.
- Dad Matters/Homestart: 9.30am to 1pm - Support for dads to help bond with their family.
- Dad Matters – 27th May Dads stay and Play 1.30pm to 3pm - Drop in and have some quality time with your little one (4th Wednesday)
- Department for Work and Pensions: 9am to 12.30pm - Work, training and benefits support .
- Early Help Link Worker: 13th and 27th May, 9am to 12pm. Support for family needs.
- Early Years Childcare Team: 13th and 27th May - 9am to 12pm. Free childcare funding advice.
- Health Visitor Baby Weigh in: 9.30am to 11.30am Wellbeing and weight checks by Bridgewater.
- Healthwatch Warrington: 13th May -10am to 2pm - NHS Independent complaints advocacy service (ICAS)
- ‘Get to Know’ Youth Drop in, 6th and 20th May 5pm – 8pm
- IDVA Drop in for Males: 1.30pm – 4.30pm - Safety planning and emotional support, Advocacy with services and professionals, Guidance around legal options
- More than Men: 13th and 27th May 1:30pm to 3:30pm - Support for dads and partners – this is a collaboration with Dad Matters
- My HAPS: - 13th and 27th May, 7pm to 8pm - Health Anxiety Peer Support. Individuals can share their stories and learn coping strategies together. [email protected] for more info and to reserve a place.
- Oral Health: 20th May - 10am to 12pm - Children's oral health support by Bridgewater NHS FT (3rd Wednesday of the month).
- 0 – 5 SEND Stay and Play: 10am to 11.30am
Session aimed at families with SEND - Warrington Autistic Neurodiverse Support (WANDS) group: 13th and 27th may - 6pm to 8pm - Puzzle games, and crafts, as well as the chance to connect with others in an inclusive environment
Thursday focus: Ageing Well and Falls
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Activity Angels Jigsaw club: 21st May- 10.30am to 12.30pm Information on activities to help with mental health and isolation.
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Age UK Mid Mersey: 21st May - 9.30am to 11:00am - Digital Offer (3rd Thursday of the month)
- Warrington Disability Partnership: 9am to 12.30pm - Support for the disabled and those living with long-term conditions.
- Livewire Healthy Lifestyles: 10am to 12pm - Health checks and fitness advice
- Living Well Hub Coffee Morning: 10am to 11:30am - A collaborative coffee morning with aging well partners. Quizzes, Bingo, Chair exercises and general coffee and chat.
- Macmillan Cancer Support: 9.30am to 12pm (no sessions on 7th May) - Support for anyone affected by cancer
- Warrington Visually Impaired People: 7th May - 9.30am – 12pm support people, along with their families & friends, come to terms with sight loss.
- Warrington Voluntary Action: - 7th and 21st May, 9am to 12pm - Help to reduce loneliness and connect people
Friday: Children and Families
- Dad Matters: 9am to 12.30pm - Support for dads to help bond with their family.
- Early Help Link Worker: 8th and 22nd May 9am to 12pm. - Support for family needs.
- Early Years Childcare Team: 8th and 22nd May - 9am to 12pm - Free childcare funding advice
- Health Visitor Baby Weigh-in 9.30am to 11.30am Wellbeing and weight checks by Bridgewater.
- ‘Get to Know’ Youth Drop in 15th and 29th May 3pm – 5pm
- Infant Feeding Support Group: 10am to 12pm - Support by Bridgewater NHS
- IPS Employment Support Drop In: 8th and 22nd May 1.30pm – 4.30pm - Support people who have a mental health condition to achieve meaningful full-time or part-time employment.
- Livewire Back on Track: 1.30pm to 2.30pm- Live Wire helping young people to get Back on Track with new mentoring project
- Maternity Clinic Advice: 9.30am to 12pm - Maternity support provided by Warrington Hospital.
- Macintyre: 29th May- 12.30pm to 2pm - Join us for some fun with a monthly quiz.
- Stay and Play: 10am to 11:30am - Sing, play and have fun with your child with a children's centre rep.
- Talking Point: 9:30am to 12.30pm - Connecting you to the support you need.
- Foster carer support group: 15th May - 9.30am to 12pm - Information and support about fostering for your local authority.
- Read to Relax group: 1pm to 2pm - Reading group provided Warrington Borough Council mental health outreach team.
- SGO Peer Support Group: 8th May, 10am-12pm - information and support around Special Guardianship Order.
- WBC Youth service: 1pm to 4pm - Offering a range of activities to support the personal and social development of young people.
- YP Substance: 1pm to 4pm - The Ways is a free and confidential Drug and Alcohol service for young people aged 10-18.
- 2Wish Bereavement Drop-in: 22nd May, 1.30pm to 4pm - For those affected by the sudden and unexpected death of a child or young adult aged 25 or under.