Walk is School Week takes place between the 20th and 25th May. Thousands of schools will be taking part across the Country to promote the many benefits of walking. The initiative aims to help more school pupils to get active, thereby reducing pollution along with the many positive health benefits associated with walking.
National Smile Month is a splendid campaign designed to raise awareness of the benefits of good oral hygiene. A Large number of individuals and organisations will be setting up events to spread the message of the need to pay attention to oral hygiene to maintain a healthy smile, the message is important to all generations but especially so for children and young people, a nice healthy smile tells people a good deal about you and makes one look more attractive whatever your age.
It’s time to give your walking boots a Spring Clean and join in the fun. People may not realise that May is the National Walking Month allowing folks to take advantage of fine days, we hope, and longer hours of daylight in which to get out and about. The benefits of walking are many-fold, physical, mental wellbeing and for many a spiritual lift by visiting outstanding places of natural beauty both locally and throughout our green and pleasant land.
Parkinson’s Awareness Week is the annual opportunity for people across the United Kingdom, and more locally, to raise awareness of this condition and its affects, treatments and developments through research, amongst the National community.
Stress Awareness Month has been held each year since its inception in 1992. It will begin on April 1st and continue up to April 30th.
During this annual thirty-day period, health care professionals and health promotion experts across the country will join forces to increase public awareness about the causes, treatments and cures for our modern-day stress epidemic.Stress is one of the invisible conditions that affects people of all ages, all stations of society, all communities and is the cause of major distress amongst sufferers, their loved ones and colleagues.
National Charity Bowel Cancer UK is the driving force behind this National Awareness Campaign raising public awareness of the disease and what can be done to mitigate its effects and support the ongoing research into its diagnosis and treatment.
Three local companies are spearheading this annual event to raise awareness
of the health benefits, and comfort, to be gained by buying a new bed, they are
Calvert’s Furniture, Bedrock Furniture and Laurie’s Furniture.
Most people have a generalised idea of what eating disorders are but in real terms our awareness of the circumstances underlying eating disorders is often sketchy or based on misunderstandings.
Eating Disorders Awareness Week is an International initiative the purpose of which is to increase public awareness of Eating Disorders and generate action to help those who are suffering with this life changing illness.
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