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Giving a voice to local children

13 June 2017

Belfast Healthy Cities today provided a platform for local children to give their views on the development of Child Friendly spaces in Belfast under the theme ‘Healthy Places, Healthy Children’ with Belfast Lord Mayor Nuala McAllister in attendance.

Pupils from Cranmore Integrated Primary School, Glenveagh School and St Kevin’s Primary School gathered in the Girdwood Community Hub to discuss how the physical environment around children can impact their health.

10 May 2017

Belfast Healthy Cities Chief Executive, Joan Devlin, attended the ‘Well-being for all – equity and health’ conference organised by the City of Reykjavik and Directorate of Health, Reykjavik. Joan was invited to give a presentation on ‘Healthy Cities – Connected for Health’ including the experience of Belfast being a healthy city across all six phases since the inception of the European Healthy Cities Network.

23 February 2017

On 22 February, Belfast Healthy Cities hosted an election hustings event in collaboration with the MAC, as part of the MAC Question Time series. A panel of Assembly candidates including Claire Hanna from SDLP, Pat Sheehan from Sinn Féin and Mike Nesbitt from UUP responded to questions from an audience of over 70 health sector professionals, chaired by BBC health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly.

19 January 2017

The challenge of how to address increasing health inequality was discussed at a seminar on 18 January. The Reducing Inequalities: Getting Results seminar took place at Queen’s University Belfast and saw more than 100 professionals across sectors come together to hear speakers from Slovenia and Manchester share their experience of tackling inequalities through direct policy action and preventative measures.

8 December 2016

The fourth annual WHO Belfast Healthy Cities Awards has taken place with organisations being recognised for their work aimed at tackling health inequality and promoting wellbeing in Belfast. The Lord Mayor of Belfast Councillor Brian Kingston presented awards to winning and highly commended projects in four categories: Promoting Health Equity; Engaging for Change; Healthy Places; Healthy Living.

1 December 2016

The ninth meeting of the World Health Organization European Healthy Cities Task Force is currently taking place in Belfast, hosted by Belfast Healthy Cities.

1 December 2016

The first joint meeting of UK Healthy Cities Network and National Healthy Cities and Counties of Ireland Network, took place in Belfast on Thursday 1 December. The two networks then joined together with the Healthy Ageing Task Force for the final session of their 2 day meeting.

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29 November 2016

A supportive built environment contributes to everyone’s health and wellbeing. Children and older people are two key groups who particularly benefit from environments that provide easy access to services and encourage active living and social interaction. Children and older people tend to spend more time in their local neighbourhoods than others, and can therefore contribute valuable knowledge and expertise of how local spaces work. Both groups, however, have specific needs that need to be taken into consideration in planning the built environment.

24 November 2016

The built environment can contribute to mental wellbeing, or affect other risk factors for poor mental wellbeing. This seminar, in partnership with North Belfast Partnership, explored how the built environment shapes wellbeing, and focused on ways in which planning can help create environments that support positive mental wellbeing. It also considered the ways in which local communities can help inform and guide this process.

Delegates heard presentations from The Conservation Volunteers, Belfast Healthy Cities, Ligoniel Healthy Living Centre and Prosocial Place.

17 November 2016

This seminar explored the role that green space has to play in improving wellbeing, including physical activity as well as mental and social wellbeing with a focus on the ways in which planning can help safeguard, develop and increase green space, and the ways in which local communities can get involved.

Belfast Healthy Cities

Giving a voice to local children

Well-being for all – Reykjavik

Election Hustings 2017

Getting better health results by reducing inequalities

WHO Belfast Healthy Cities Awards 2016

Meeting of the WHO European Healthy Cities Task Force on Healthy Ageing

Joint meeting of UK Healthy Cities Network and National Healthy Cities and Counties of Ireland Network

Final Seminar of Healthy Places, Healthy People series

Healthy Places, Healthy People - Mental Wellbeing

Healthy Places, Healthy People – Green Spaces

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