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Amber Heat-Health Alert in London from 12-13 August

An Amber Heat-Health Alert has been called for London, from 9am Tuesday 12th August until at least 6pm on Wednesday 13th August 2025.

To help yourself and your community, you can:

Check in on older people & those with a health or mental health condition

Use and promote our Cool Spaces map, for those who seek respite while out and about

Drink plenty of water and stay hydrated

Avoid being out in the sun from 11am – 3pm

Resources for your community

The following are various resource pages, guides and toolkits that you can use during this Amber Heat-Health Alert:

Download the hot weather toolkit

 

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Mental Health Support Urged for Charity Staff Dealing with 2024 Riots Aftermath

The People’s Health Trust has released a report calling for mental health support for staff of local charities managing the aftermath of last summer’s riots. Take a look here.

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Tips for Anxiety Treatment: A New Lens to See & Feel Anxiety

For some helpful tips and strategies in dealing with anxiety, click here

I encourage you to explore the guide, not because every aspect may directly resonate with you, but because, from my experience, we often share more in common as individuals than we might initially recognise. With that perspective, I believe there is something within this guide that will connect with you on a meaningful level.

Please feel free to share with your SU’s and patients.

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Heat-Health Alert

The UK Health Security Agency have extensive guidance and materials for supporting communities, including:

You can find a map of Cool Spaces across London here, and register your own too.

The Met Office’s #WeatherReady campaign also has lots of advice and guidance.

Wildfire Alert

London Fire Brigade provide guidance and support around wildfire risk on this webpage.

Social Channels

Do follow London Resilience on either BlueSky or X (Twitter) where we will be sharing content.

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Hestia June Workshop Timetable & Mental Health Tips

Over the years, the Community Link Advisors have developed a strong and collaborative relationship with the communities of Hammersmith & Fulham, as well as with the various external services and organisations supporting the borough. Your ongoing support has been instrumental in enhancing the experiences of our service users, helping to make their journeys more manageable. We deeply appreciate the invaluable contributions you have made over the years. While our service plays a vital role in their support network, it is only one part of a much larger system of care. It is the collective efforts of communities and services like yours that provide the continuity and stability needed for individuals to progress in their wellbeing journey.

I’m pleased to share with you our workshop timetable for June. These interactive and informative sessions are led by my colleague and me.

I’ve also included links to this month’s mental health tips:

How-to-Sustain-Motivation-Throughout-the-Day

Deciding-your-own-future

Feel free to share it with your colleagues and service users or clients. Please note that the outing is exclusively for our service users, while all other sessions are open to the public. If you are interested or know anyone who would benefit from these workshops, please contact the service.

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Carers Week Garden Party

3 – 6pm, Tuesday 10th June 2025

Royal Trinity Hospice, Clapham Common North Side, SW4 0RN

To thank you for all that you do, please join us at Trinity for a garden party and a range of wellbeing activities

 

Activity Schedule:

3pm – Event begins with cake and bubbles

3.20 – 3.50pm – Chair yoga

4 – 4.15pm – London Gay Men’s Chorus

4.30 – 5pm – Drop-in incense stick workshop

5pm – 5.45pm – Carers Circle

PLUS enjoy the garden and art workshops throughout

 

Book your spot on our website or by calling 0777 554 1848

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Mental Health Tips – Start with the Small Things

The world you experience—your personal reality—is shaped by your perceptions, thoughts, and emotions. In many ways, your external world and your internal experience (or what we might call your “field of being”) are deeply interconnected. As Carl Jung once noted, “There’s no difference between you and what you experience,” highlighting how our inner world influences how we interpret and respond to the outer world. When facing challenges, it can be helpful to ask: Are these difficulties rooted in the external, objective world, or do they arise within my internal experience? Reflecting on this distinction can offer valuable insight and support emotional self-awareness and growth. Read on

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Free Community Day

Health, Fun, Music & Community

Date: Saturday 31st May 2025

Time: 12pm-5pm

Location: Sands End Arts & community Centre, Peterborough Road, SW6 3EZ

Click here for more information

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FREE Health Conversations on June 25th, 1pm-4pm at SECC

The event is a Silver Social but the offer of a health conversation is for anyone aged over 18, so any supporting family members/friends not there for the social could also get a free health conversation. Further information

Any communications should include this link Silver Social Series | London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, and the event is ticketed via the link.

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