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Living Well ‘Move More’ campaign launches in pharmacies

A new campaign has been launched in community pharmacies across Northern Ireland, encouraging everyone to get more physically active in their everyday lives. ‘Move More, Feel Better’ is running in over 500 community pharmacies as part of the Living Well service which highlights the role of pharmacy teams in providing advice and support to help people get more active and is delivered in partnership with the Public Health Agency (PHA), Community Pharmacy NI (CPNI), and the Department of Health (DoH). The ‘Move More, Feel Better’ initiative aims to raise awareness of the many physical and mental

This booklet provides tips and ideas on how to organise your own Walk & Talk event to support mental health and emotional wellbeing in Mental Health Awareness Week, 13-19 May 2024.

Walk and Talk 2023 – “Creating hope through action”

Health and Social Care Trusts and PHA have worked in partnership to develop a campaign to encourage people across Northern Ireland to embrace and demonstrate the theme: Creating Hope, Through Action. The campaign will run from 11 th September -9 th October 2023 to mark the period between World Suicide Prevention Day and World Mental Health Day. This year we are calling on people to ‘Walk & Talk’. Embracing the Take 5 messages to ‘Be Active’ and ‘Connect’. Below are some resources for promoting Walk and Talk events on your social media and some suggested text you could include on your post. You

These six posters were produced to support Week 4 of the Active Travel Challenge 2019.

As part of a Choose to Live Better campaign to encourage people to be more active, this toolkit provides resources for group leaders to organise a Step Challenge. One aspect of the campaign encourages people to monitor the number of steps they take each day and aim to increase it as an easy way of getting more active. A Step Challenge helps people achieve this through working together in a group to support and motivate one another. Groups might be run by a local community or voluntary organisation, in the workplace, or simply among friends and family.

This A5 booklet encourages people to increase their level of physical activity by monitoring the number of steps they take each day and aiming to increase it.

Walking for Health is delivered and supported by Health and Social Care Trusts across Northern Ireland and is funded by the Public Health Agency (PHA).