Health Campaigns

W.L.H.A approved funding of £3,000 to identify and support the delivery of health related campaigns. The following campaigns each received money from the Alliance:-

British Red Cross

British Red Cross are situated in a mobile unit within the grounds of Wrexham Maelor Hospital, they provide short term loan wheelchairs. In the first six months of this year they have loaned out 70 wheelchairs to 204 patients, 98% of these patients are terminally ill or hospital discharges.

British Red Cross received £600 from the Wrexham Local Health Alliance which enabled them to purchase 5 new wheelchairs.

AVOW – Association of Voluntary Organisations in Wrexham

AVOW is the County Voluntary Council for Wrexham and as such acts as an umbrella body for all voluntary and community organisations in Wrexham. AVOW provides advice, support, training to voluntary organisations and aims to enable effective representation and partnership with statutory agencies.

Avow received £1,060.00 to provide first aid at work training, and health and safety courses to 12 of its members.

Wrexham County Borough Council / North East Wales NHS Trust

There is increasing evidence that breast fed children suffer less from a range of childhood ailments and are less likely to suffer from heart disease and some forms of cancers in later life.

The Wrexham Breast Feeding Development Group aims to promote breast feeding as a healthy choice, and in addition to encouraging to develop a breast feeding policy, the group also leads on an initiative known as the breast feeding friendly register. Essentially, this is a network of shops, banks, council offices and leisure centres that support women who breast feed.

Wrexham Local Health Alliance has funded £600 to this group to redesign and publish leaflets which list those premises which are breast feeding friendly.

NEWCIS ( The North East Wales Carers Information Service)

NEWCIS is based at the Carers Centre in Regent Street, Wrexham, it is an information and support service for Carers. It holds Carers Support Group meetings, where Carers attend to discuss any problems /issues they may have. NEWCIS has received money from the Carers Special Grant to provide breaks for Carers and one-off grants to enable them to purchase such items as washing machines and gardening services.

Wrexham Local Health Alliance funded North East Wales Carers £740 to provide moving and handling training for carers.

The two day training event held in June 2002 was attended by 9 carers with the purpose of the training to ‘enhance their skills’. The training event was very successful with extremely positive feedback.

Information Shop for Young People

Wrexham’s “Infoshop” for young people has relocated to Chester Street. Wrexham Local Health Alliance has funded the shop £12,000 to help towards the re-furbishment of the premises.

The Infoshop is a place where young people can go for advice on just about anything, and can even visit a sexual health clinic for advice and treatment. It is a place where people can walk in off the street and ask for help or to pick up a leaflet on a concerning matter.

The main areas that the shop concentrate on are:

• Education

• Employment and Training

• Family and Relationships

• Health and Sexual Health

• Sport and Leisure

• Housing

• Money

• Rights

• Travel