Teaming up with Tesco & FareShare to provide FREE food for our NEW Health Walk sessions!

By Taz Virdee

​We are delighted to announce that we have joined forces with Tesco Extra in Osterley and FareShare to provide free healthy food for our community. We will be distributing our free food at our new Health Walk sessions led by Ma Aliyya Community Group. We will be encouraging participants to use the food to cook healthy meals at home. Our sessions will be starting Friday 15th July at the Brabazon Community Centre from 9.30 to 11am. This 4 week pilot programme is open to all members of the community. After the 4 weeks we look to resume the sessions in September. 

'Enjoy the benefits of walking...building confidence and making new friends'

​Nida Akram, HWCP Committee Member and Project Manager for Ma Aliyya, said: “We are very excited about our upcoming project of Healthy Walking for local residents.  Thanks to the kind generosity of Tesco and FareShare, we are able to provide our members fresh food for free after the walk. The aim of this project is to bring all members of the community together to enjoy the benefits of walking as well as building confidence and making new friends. We also hope to engage people over 50 years and with those English is a second language. Why not bring the whole family or a friend?”

Lizzy Clark, FareShare FoodCloud Project Coordinator, said: "FareShare is delighted to be working in partnership with Tesco to help local community organisations such as Heston West Community Partnership benefit from good food that might otherwise go to waste. We look forward to all the great initiatives Tesco’s donations will help support."

Sessions starts Friday 15th July 2016.

Walking can also give you the opportunity to think or explore. BBC Radio 4 recently aired a programme called 'How to go for a Walk' - please click here to listen.

If you are interested in getting involved with our Health Walk sessions please contact Taz on taz.virdee@groundwork.org.uk or 07702532710.
 
Please click here to download the flyer.