The Tameside CVD and Diabetes Microgrant is designed to support community-led activities that contribute to the prevention or awareness of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes.
The funding was allocated to projects reaching underrepresented and disadvantaged groups, projects engaging with healthy eating/physical activity/smoking awareness, catching ill health as early as possible, and projects aimed at managing the symptoms of CVD and diabetes.
Below are the organisations funded through this grant.
| Tameside Health Group | Keep Fit & Healthy Funding will go towards CVD and diabetes awareness sessions delivered by local health professionals and exercise sessions based at Ashton Central Mosque for men and women predominantly from the Pakistani community. |
| Being There | Tameside Diabetes and CVD Support Programme This project is a 10-week programme delivered in Ashton for people to engage with healthy eating and physical activity by offering sessions that are focused on ‘heart-healthy’ and ‘diabetes-friendly’ nutritional advice, as well as the chance to try out accessible, no/low-cost exercise. |
| Cee Bee Gold Foundation | Healthy Hearts and Cultural Cooking This project will support African and Caribbean families in the Denton and Droylsden area. Each session will include interactive cooking demonstrations, gentle physical activity, and open discussions on heart health and lifestyle changes. Participants will also receive ingredient packs to practise at home. |
| Flowhesion Foundation | Walk and Talk The WALK AND TALK sessions aim to take women for a structured one-hour walk once every week. The sessions will be led by a bilingual facilitator engaging the women into conversations about adapting healthy lifestyle habits. As well as this, a guest speaker will be invited to deliver 2 one-hour sesssions addressing the risks of Diabetes and Cardiovascular disorders. |
| Khush Amdid | Awareness and Prevention of Diabetes (Meri Sehat) This project aims to reduce health inequalities within the South Asian community by providing awareness session workshops supported by professionals with specialised knowledge in diabetes care. This would be a 4-week course covering a range of holistic topics such as what diabetes is and its prevalence, healthy meal planning and portion control with nutritious food provided, importance of physical activity with a fitness session, and living with and managing diabetes. |
| Menopause Your Way | Menopause Hub This project will engage women already attending the Menopause Hub in Denton and their partners in physical activity and healthy food ideas as a lot of menopausal women are at risk of developing diabetes, arthritis, heart conditions due to the impact of hormone deficiency. |
| Cedar Park and Hurst Community Group | Warm Hearts, Healthy Lives This project will offer simple, practical support for vulnerable Tameside residents. It will involve short movement sessions such as gentle stretching, balance work and steady standing exercises, offer demonstrations on low-cost winter meals like soups and slow cooker dishes, Stalls with information on early signs of heart problems or diabetes, how to stay warm and where to get help, and warm packs with simple winter items. |
| St Gabriel's Community Group | Gabriel’s Guys Health & Wellbeing Activities This funding will go towards extending and developing "Gabriel's Guys" sessions aimed at elderly men suffering with loneliness, social isolation, and physical health issues. The project aims to highlight the benefits of regular exercise and activities to enhance the men’s physical and mental health and promote better health by raising awareness about sleep, eating, smoking, alcohol and drugs through local health professionals. |
| Shree Ram Mandir | Move Along Everyone This project will include engaging the elderly South Asian men and women who already attend to join monthly bowling sessions to engage in physical activity and to help manage or prevent diabetes and CVD. |
| The Together Centre | Pantry Plus: Fruit, Veg, and Health This project aims to reduce health inequalities by making healthy eating and being active accessible to people in Tameside who are most at risk of CVD and diabetes, including those struggling with their finances, have a disability, mental health issues, those who are socially isolated, or those that may come under more than one of these cohorts. Throughout the week, people will be given fruit and veg packs with recipe cards, and free Together Centre activity vouchers. |