The Health Forum is a community-led health improvement project tasked with bringing together many different groups and agencies in order to enhance the health and well being of the people in the Bogside & Brandywell community and to reduce health inequalities.

Safe & Well – Big Lottery Fund

A proposal by the Health Forum to the Big Lottery Fund’s Safe & Well programme to establish a Neighbourhood Alcohol Safety Partnership has progressed to the second stage.

We have appointed Moore Stephens Bradley McDaid, Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors to carry out research assessing the social and economic impact of alcohol use within the Derry City Council area and to prepare a comprehensive business plan setting out the key steps to establish a Neighbourhood Alcohol Safety Partnership

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CURRENT PROGRAMMES

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Health Campaigns
- Investing for Health in Schools
- Smoking Cessation
- Stop Smoking Events
- Women’s, Men’s & Young
- People’s Health MOT Checks
- Mobile Cancer Screening Unit
- Blood Transfusion Service

Physical Health & Fitness
- Beginners Keep Fit
- Tai Bo
- Body Toning
- Men’s Beginners Circuit Training
- Class
- Ju Jitsu
- Exercise Referral Project

Older People
- Monday Club
- MOT Health Checks
- Basic Foot Care Clinic
- Gentle Exercises
- Christmas Dance/Summer
- Gala Ball
- Summer Trip
- Caring for the Carers Pampering

Food Health & Nutrition
- Cook It
- Food For Thought
- Back 2 Basics
- Healthy Eating Workshops
- An Gairdín Glas
- Sunrise Healthy Breakfast Club

Mental Health
- Foyle Tranquiliser Initiative
- ‘The Pink Ladies’ Breast Cancer
   Support Group

Oral Health