News and reports

Age UK Waltham Forest’s February newsletter includes details on the plant fayre in March, other activities plus an invite to the AGM.

CREST Waltham Forest are holding an online neurodiversity peer support group every Thursday, starting on Thursday 1st February, from 7pm to 8.30pm.

Friday 26th January is Great Mental Health Day when 1,000s of Londoners will come together across free events taking place across the city, sharing stories, experiences and exploring ways to support individual and community wellbeing.

If you use Whipps Cross as your local hospital then you can join the Whipps Cross Redevelopment Community Forum to share your views on the redevelopment of your hospital.

Members of the multi-profession union Unite will strike between will strike between Monday 29 January – Friday 9 February 2024.

This week (22nd to 28th January) is Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.

Creating Conversations CIC are running Good Grief Cafés from 2.45pm to 5pm at East of Eden Café, 14 Hatherley Mews, Walthamstow, E17 4QP on the third Saturday of each month.

To help with research into ethnicity and breast cancer, a selection of ethnically diverse healthy women and breast cancer patients, aged 25 and over, are needed to join the Ethnicity and Breast Cancer Patient and Public Involvement group.

BeeZee Families are hosting a fun and free 11-week lifestyle programme to encourage families to be healthier and happier at four locations across the borough.

A safe, confidential and friendly space where people, usually strangers, meet to talk openly about death, dying and grief. It is not therapy or counselling. There is no agenda, and the conversation is entirely group-led.

Every Tuesday from 9,30am to 10.30am at the Waltham Forest Community Hub, 18A Orford Road, Walthamstow, E17 9LN.

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