Healthy Hub East Herts

Healthy Hub provides a range of support for different health and wellbeing needs in East Herts.

The Healthy Hub East Herts will be based at the East Herts Council Wallfields Offices, Hertford and at Charringtons House, Bishop’s Stortford and you will be able to speak to colleagues about the services on offer during the normal opening times of 08:30 - 5:00pm Monday to Friday.

Healthy Hub Services

Support will be available to help with a range of health and wellbeing needs. The services available through the healthy hubs include:

  • Healthy lifestyle advice including stop smoking, nutrition advice and opportunities to be more physically active.
  • Group support and presentations focused on health and wellbeing themes.
  • Services offered by Citizens Advice East Herts Service who are also based at the East Herts Wallfields Office.
  • Mental health and wellbeing referral to local services.
  • Referral to specific wellbeing support
  • Referral to training and skills opportunities with local providers.

Healthy Hub programme of activities

There are lots of different sessions to take part in at different times during the coming month. Afternoon or evening sessions are available which can help you with health and wellbeing areas, learning new skills or coping with new experiences.

Become a member of the Healthy Hub

To sign up to become a member of the Healthy Hub East Herts please complete our Healthy Hub East Herts Enquiry Form.

Your enquiry will come through to the Healthy Hub East Herts team who will be able to help you.

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If you need information or advice now please click on the series of links below which detail the local partners we work with and the services they provide. The Healthy Lifestyle Advice and Information also provides lots of useful sources.

Mind in Mid Herts

 Mind in Mid Herts website

  • Mental Health Recovery based service – wellbeing groups - wellbeing and nutrition, wellbeing and exercise
  • Prevent relapse and people needing further medical intervention for their mental health problem
  • Prevent people from becoming ill and needing medical intervention, through psycho education courses etc.
  • Social support for people recovering from mental health issues and to support those with long term conditions becoming socially isolated and lonely offering social support groups, art, crafts, music etc.

Herts Mind Network

Herts Mind Network website

  • We will not give up until everyone experiencing mental ill health gets support, to help them on their road to recovery
  • As a client led organisation, the views and needs of clients and those who care for them are always listened to and considered in our service development. We aim to create an environment of opportunity, where you can realise self-development and personal growth
  • We are the largest ‘open access’ provider of mental health services in Hertfordshire
  • We recognise that recovery means different things to different people. Therefore, we work in collaboration with each individual person, to promote and support this by developing a personalised approach, so that your needs are realistically met.

Mudlarks Community

Mudlarks Community website

  • Promote health and wellbeing through social & therapeutic horticulture, training and work opportunities to people with learning disabilities and mental health concerns.
  • To provide facilities in Hertfordshire including horticultural sites and a working café for use by vulnerable people.
  • To develop social and work related skills of people with learning disabilities and mental health concerns through the provision of therapy, training, meaningful work experience and employment opportunities to help integrate people into their community.
  • To raise awareness of learning disabilities and mental health concerns and help integrate people with learning disabilities into their community through our community- based projects, as well as providing opportunities for local schools and colleges to access our facilities.

CVS Broxbourne and East Herts

CVS website

  • CVSBEH provides a diverse range of services to develop, enhance and empower voluntary and community groups to effectively serve their communities across Broxbourne and East Herts.
  • For those who are new to the ‘Voluntary Sector’ or simply want to find out about groups working locally, CVSBEH is a first point of contact.
  • We can provide advice and support on funding and governance to local groups and organisations.
  • CVSBEH can help new and existing groups to meet local changing needs through planning and other organisational matters.
  • For individuals, CVSBEH can help develop personal and professional skills through signposting, volunteer recruitment and providing free and affordable training courses.

Future Living Hertford

Future Living Hertford website

  • Future Living provides therapeutic care and complementary therapies to clients in recovery from domestic abuse and addiction.
  • As a health and wellbeing centre it engages with a range of practical and holistic programmes to support clients back into life.
  • If offers a range of training and volunteering opportunities to clients enabling them to become independent again
  • It enables clients to clients to reconnect with their community and feel supported through our community café.

Citizens Advice East Herts Service

Citizens Advice website

  • Citizens Advice East Herts is an independent local charity that provide free impartial advice on range of issues to people in East Herts
  • Most common advice issues are benefits (including Universal Credit and tax credits) debt, housing, employment and relationships
  • We provide face to face advice 4 days a week in 2 main locations (Bishop’s Stortford and Hertford) plus outreach locations (Buntingford, Ware and Sawbridgeworth) and via Jobcentre and Mind in Hertford
  • We also give advice by telephone, email and webchat plus website with information and signposting.
  • Volunteer model means our services are locally delivered by and for the community

Carers in Hertfordshire

Carer in Hertfordshire website

  • To provide information advice and support to any unpaid family or friend carer who lives, works or cares in Herts.
  • To give carers a collective voice when working with services. 
  • To provide services that support carers in their role and help them to carry on caring.
  • To raise awareness or the needs of carers, and the issues they face, with services and the general public.

Wise About Nutrition

Wise About Nutrition website

  • To generate a wider understanding of healthy eating in the local community and place emphasis on the importance of our relationships with food for general wellbeing.
  • To promote individual confidence in cooking, budgeting and meal-planning so that making healthy meals is less of a challenge due to money and time constraints.
  • To counter issues of social isolation and mental health by bringing people together and reducing stress or concerns about food.
  • To provide educational resources to a variety of targeted demographic groups, such as parents and young people, carers and the elderly, people with mental health problems and those with learning disabilities.

St. Clare’s Hospice

St. Clare's Hospice website

  • To support and provide End of Life Care to West Essex and East Herts.
  • We are working to identify additional ways to support local people around death dying and loss.
  • To challenge our communities to discuss death and dying and hospice services.
  • To break stigmas attached to access to Hospice Care.
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