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I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about Feel Good Fortnight which is an initiative being coordinated by the West Berkshire Health and Wellbeing Partnership. It aims to raise awareness about activities that are available within West Berkshire which benefit the health and wellbeing of everyone who lives and works in the area.

Feel Good Fortnight runs from 18th April until 1st May 2009. A range of activities will be coordinated across West Berkshire, these will include:

• Activities and events such as organised walks, light exercise, or more traditional sporting activities.
• Educational displays / information exchange (drop in sessions, displays)
• Promoting access to local clubs, groups, libraries, museums and leisure facilities
• Fun with healthy eating & lifestyles e.g. cooking, organic gardening
• Health checks e.g. blood pressure checks


The idea is to firstly support and link with existing events as participation in the fortnight will provide additional publicity and reach new audiences across the district. Secondly there will be the opportunity to form new partnerships to run taster sessions or one off events for everyone to ‘try out’, for example an ‘en-masse’ tai-chi session in Newbury Market Place is being planned.

We hope that this will support the development of your organisation and in turn the wider opportunities for people to participate in health and wellbeing related activities. We want to involve a wide range of local businesses, community and voluntary groups, leisure facilities and residents in order to reach as many people within the district as possible.


All organisations that participate will have access to a simple resource to help market events under this fortnight. This will be a free of charge advertising opportunity, including downloadable logos, posters and fliers.

We have a small amount of money which we want to use to support innovative ideas and development of new opportunities which will provide an ongoing benefit to the local community.

If you or your organisation’s activities benefit the health and wellbeing of the people of West Berkshire we want to hear from you. Whether you are involved in traditional physically active hobbies, relaxing and calming activities or social and educational activities the Feel Good Fortnight is for you.

If you would like to find out more or get involved please get in touch, I will contact you shortly to let you know more about the Feel Good Fortnight and what it can do for you. Please pass this information on to anyone who you think would like to be involved with this event.


Kind Regards,

Liz Large


Liz Large
Feel Good Fortnight Events Coordinator
Health and Wellbeing Partnership

Email: liz@lizlarge.co.uk
Telephone: 01635 32639