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National HIV Testing Week 2025

The aim of HIV Testing Week is to raise awareness about the importance of HIV testing and encourage everyone to know their status. HIV testing is free, easy, and confidential. By getting tested, you can help end the HIV epidemic by 2030.
Newham fully supports this initiative, striving to zero new HIV infections, zero preventable deaths and zero HIV-associated stigma by 2030. We want to ensure every Newham resident at risk for HIV have access to HIV prevention and testing. Knowing your status is the first step in taking control of your health and protecting your loved ones.

Volunteering

Find opportunities to volunteer in your community.

Diabetes

Diabetes is a lifelong condition that causes a person’s blood sugar level to become too high.

Nutrition Kitchen

Did you know about 80% of your physical health is actually about the food you eat?!

If you are looking to:

Keep fit
Lose weight
Control your sugar consumption
Reduce your salt intake to help your blood pressure
Measure your oil to help your cholesterol levels
Educate yourself on a what a healthy diet plan looks like for you.
This may be the programme for you!

Sign up for the programme today.

Ramadan 2025 in Newham

Ramadan Mubarak! Ramadan is a great opportunity to reflect and think about self-control and routine. A time to make and break new healthier habits. Small changes can make a big difference to maintaining your health. It is important to only fast if it safe for you to do so and consult a health care professional if you have any health conditions.

Well Newham Directory of Services (powered by Joy)

The Well Newham team are currently leading on the roll out of a new health and wellbeing service directory for Newham. This directory is called the Well Newham Directory of Services, which is powered by a platform called Joy.

Health Checks and screenings

Find out the importance and benefits of going for regular health checks and screenings.

Pre-diabetes support

Find out about our free exercise, healthy eating and education programmes.

Tuberculosis (TB)

Newham sees some of the highest cases of TB in the UK.

TB is curable. All services are free and confidential.

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection caused by bacteria. It mainly affects the lungs, but it can affect any part of the body, including lymph nodes (glands), bones and the brain causing meningitis. TB is spread when a person with TB in their lungs or throat coughs or sneezes.

Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) Testing

Latent TB” means the bacteria are inactive. They can remain inactive for a lifetime but in some people the bacteria can become active and cause disease’

Organ Donation

Opting out of Organ donation

Ageing Well Strategy

We want Newham to be a place where everyone can age well.

Free health checks in Newham workplaces

Heart health checks in workplaces are a simple and effective way to help people working in Newham to stay healthy. Get in touch to take up this opportunity for your workplace!

Keeping your family healthy

Our website is filled with advice, guidance and links to services that can help you and your family stay healthy.

Social Welfare Alliance

The Social Welfare Alliance is supporting all frontline workers, champions and volunteers with information and referral pathways to support residents around income maximisation, immigration support and advice, early years, housing issues and much more.

The purpose of this is to enhance the skills you already have! And facilitate you getting in touch with others having similar conversations across the borough.

The training sessions are for anyone in the borough who is regularly having conversations with residents who are presenting with a range of social welfare issues. It applies to any of the borough wide workforce who engage with residents via support services, and in a community, food, or clinical setting where there are underlying issues that are affecting their health and where speedy and efficient support and/or signposting will make an immediate difference.

All sessions are free to attend and being delivered online.

BBC Radio 4

Join a special live recording of BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions at Community Links, Newham

Be part of the audience as top political and social issues are debated! You can even submit a question for a chance to ask it live on air.

What's on near me?

Browse our events calendar to find local events near you.

COVID-19

COVID-19 is a viral infection that can cause cold like symptoms.

COVID-19 vaccination is the best way to protect yourself from becoming seriously unwell or dying from COVID-19.

Most people feel better within a few days or weeks of their first COVID-19 symptoms and make a full recovery within 12 weeks. However, for some people, it can be a more serious illness and their symptoms can last longer.

Free activities for children and young people in Newham

There's lots going on in Newham for families to be a part of.

Many of these activities are inclusive for children and young people with SEND, learning and / or physical disabilities. Take a look at the description to find out more about each service's accessibility

Breast Screening

Find out why breast screenings are important and how to make an appointment for one.