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Wednesday 16 December:Capacity Building Seminar Series 2015 / 2016: Shaping Places for Healthy Lives

9 December 2015

Booking is now open for Shaping Places for Healthy Lives on Wednesday 16 December

This free seminar is an opportunity to explore how place making can effectively support health and wellbeing, and how urban design can help create healthy places. It is is targeted at policy and decision makers in sectors including local government, health and regeneration, but will also be of interest to architects and designers across sectors.

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Planning for Healthy Communities – engaging local expertise

25 November 2015

How our neighbourhoods are planned plays a major role for people’s everyday lives, and through that their health and wellbeing. Local communities have first hand experience and expertise of how the built environment shapes their health, which can inform and support the development of planning policy and practice.

This event was designed for community sector professionals and provided an opportunity to explore how planning influences health, and explore the role of the community sector in influencing healthy urban environments.

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Healthy Places, Healthy Children: Teaching resource piloted in Belfast Schools

2 November 2015

A teaching resource on place and the built environment for Key Stage 2 (Primary 5-7 year groups) has been developed in collaboration with the Education Authority. The resource will be piloted with 13 Primary Schools  from across Belfast.

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Ciclovia Event in Botanic Park

Ciclovia Event in Botanic Park
4 October 2015

The Belfast Healthy Cities KidsSpace initiative provided some well-earned fun for the younger participants of the Ciclovia event in Botanic Park on Sunday 4 October. Cyclists were given the opportunity to ride through a traffic free zone of the city from the Botanic Park to Belfast City Hall in a scheme designed to give public ownership of the city and to encourage family participation in healthier lifestyles.

View a short video of the day’s proceedings >

KidsSpace @ Culture Night Belfast 2015 Cathedral Gardens

18 September 2015

Belfast Healthy Cities was again delighted to participate in the city’s annual Culture Night on 18 September, our fifth year of involvement with the initiative. We facilitated the ever popular KidsSpace event where children are encouraged to play and use space freely.

Community artists and Jump Jingle and Jive, a creative dance organisation supported the programme in Buoys Park, Cathedral Quarter.

A Call to Action: Shaping Healthier Places for Children in Belfast

18 September 2015

‘A good place for children is a good place for everyone.’

A Call to Action:Shaping Healthier Places for Children in Belfast is based on comprehensive engagement with children.and calls on stakeholders in Belfast to respond to the issues identified by the children..Consultation on the document took place during summer 2015. This process identified priorities for action and work is now progressing on a plan for the city, which will be launched in March 2016.

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Lord Mayor Launches Belfast Healthy City Awards 2015

7 September 2015

The Lord Mayor of Belfast Councillor Arder Carson, alongside Belfast Healthy Cities Chair Nigel McMahon and CEO Joan Devlin have launched this year’s World Health Organization Belfast Healthy City Awards.

The awards recognise and celebrate the work undertaken by organizations from all sectors towards improving the health and wellbeing of the people of Belfast. There are four categories, Promoting Health Equity; Healthy Places; Healthy Living and a new category for this year, Engaging for Change. Open until Wednesday 21 October.

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KidsSpace Visits the Ulster Museum and looks forward to Annadale Haywood Residents Association This Friday

31 July 2015

The free event turned spaces inside and outside the Museum into a colourful, fun filled,child friendly place with Arts and Crafts, Smoothie Bikes, Giant Board Games and lots of other opportunities for fun.

Join us for the next KidsSpace event at Annadale and Haywood Residents Association on Friday 7 August.

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KidsSpace Summer Events 2015

22 July 2015

KidsSpace from Belfast Healthy Cities returns this summer for three events that will allow children to make city space their own.

KidsSpace demonstrates how public space can be used creatively for children and families. It also provides a platform for gathering views on how family friendly the city is. Belfast Healthy Cities is currently working on the development of a child friendly strategy for the city.

 

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Belfast Academics Visit the WHO Healthy City of Udine to learn of Healthy and Active Ageing

1 July 2015

Learning from the wider WHO European Healthy Cities Network is a key aspect of being a healthy city. Many cities have developed expertise in addressing particular themes that can be used to inform approaches in Belfast.

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