Community Health Champions

Newham Public Health together with Race Equality Forum inviting you to join our six important health seminars! These will happen on Zoom every other month.

Each seminar will cover different health topics that matter to our community. We will have experts who will explain these topics and help us understand how they affect us. They will also share where you can find support and help.

Our fifth seminar will be about Men's Cancer Awareness, and it will take place on Thursday, 15 January, 2026, from 6 PM to 7:00 PM on Zoom (link provided upon registration). 

All resources from our previous seminars on mental health, eating for health, moving for health and women's cancer awareness can be accessed here. 

Please invite your family and friends to join us! The information we share can really help make a difference in the lives of our loved ones.

For more information contact, communityhealthchampions@newham.gov.uk.

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I was inspired to become a Community Health Champion at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic because I wanted to learn about issue and saw the significant impact the not knowing about the virus was having on our Community in Newham, East London.

With so much uncertainty and misinformation circulating, I felt a strong sense of responsibility to help ensure that accurate information reached those who needed it most. I wanted to support my neighbours in my Community in understanding the evolving situation and making informed decisions to protect their health.

I felt that it was essential that we received accurate and timely information. The main way to achieve this was by working closely with our Public Health team. They had a mammoth task in dealing with the unprecedented situation. There was no rule book to follow.

Fortunately, we have a brilliant team who quickly learned that it would need a collaborative approach. We also established that the Community would need to be able to challenge the establishment and information provided. That way we, as Champions could pass details on. We felt comfortable with, the source and knowing that we were being honest even if the details were unpopular or difficult.

Read the full story here.

 

The Community Health Champions network builds on COVID-19 Health Champions network. It empowers Newham residents to remain up to date on information about things to do with health and wellbeing that matter to them. We currently provide information on cost of living (Cost of Living Champions), general health information (Community Health Champions) & autism (autism champions).

To learn more about Community Health Champion programmes in Newham and how to sign up, check the boxes below.

This is one of the examples how our Community Health Champions can influence a change. The flyer has been initiated and co-created with one of our Community Health Champions, Katie. Katie identified a gap in our resources on ways to help residents save on their water bills, and together we developed a helpful infographic on Water-Saving Tips for Your Day-to-Day Routine.

In addition to practical tips, the flyer highlights schemes offered by Thames Water that may provide financial relief for eligible households.