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Celebrating V.E. day during lockdown (Hadleigh road)

Thank you to Matt from Trust Links for the video submission of V.E day celebrations down his street.

Looks like everyone had a great time.

I've always dreamt of living in a place where neighbours know, help and support each other...

When it was clear that we would be entering a period of lockdown in March, I dropped a note through the doors of 90 households in my section of road, suggesting to get together in a WhatsApp group. The idea was that we would be able to support each another during this time. Not everyone responded, but we have a 40 people strong group now. Conversations go from friendly banter to shopping help (including a toilet paper bulk buying offer in the early days of lockdown!) to offer of toys and furniture going spare. Someone even arranged an Easter egg…

Keeping Active in Lockdown

When we found out that the Country was entering lockdown, and our community activity sessions would be suspended we knew that we had to adjust our working model to ensure we could still reach our communities and keep people active and less isolated. We were able to set up a YouTube page, Active Life for a Healthier You, and our amazing instructors commited to providing free activity sessions every week for everyone to access. We had several programmes where we supported particular groups and were able to offer phone calls, bespoke videos and online sessions to ensure that they had…

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