Posted 8:50am
I think this is the earliest I have ever done a blog entry - apart from the odd occasion in the past when I have been up all night. Thankfully sleep is not too bad at the moment.
So, June here, and where has this year gone? Lockdown for over two months, and this creating huge changes in the whole world. Business and Personal life has dramatically been overhauled. And that has also been for Healthy Minds, Healthy Bods.
Naturally, a lot of our normal work is alongside users. We have our Ajani courses, which we love, and what we want as our main focus. The feedback to our unique delivery and content has been significant. We have built a great base, with incredible quotes, and a large network of partners. Our walks are loved. And out fantastic fitness sessions, with Better Gyms allowing us studio space, have gone down really well.
But for the last seven weeks we have been designing and producing weekly mental health packs, and they have grown to 20 pages now (which will be the maximum). We email out to over 100 addresses, most of which are organisations and companies. We deliver to some local addresses, and post off now as well, thanks to funding from Islington Giving. And we have applied for more funding to carry on when that runs out (fingers crossed). Naturally, the dream is salary funding. All this at the moment is volunteer based.
Sadly, that means we may have lost Luke and Dean. They are amazing, and I have loved working with them both, but they deserve salaries (as do I), and it appears they want to concentrate on their main jobs, which I totally understand. If we could find salary funding then it would be different, but nobody appears to want to trust us enough!!! I will keep working on this.
The latest pack - number seven - comes out today. As usual we look at Mind-set, Nutrition, Exercise and Health, plus extras. In this issue we focus on:
Mind-set: Self-love (selfish), and looking after number one
Nutrition: Breakfast - why it's important, plus what we can have
Exercise: special guest Personal Trainer Richard looks at Upper Body
Health: Sleep - and we will go deeper in another issue
Lazza cooks Brownies
Quiz Page to make you think
Plus we do a bit of self promotion and other stuff.
All our packs are on our website - and our wonderful website guy (Kacper), who is currently based in Scotland - is doing weekly work on adding pages, adding content, and building up our profile.
It feels great to get this blog back up and running again, after a period of non-activity. Thank to all who read this. Please like and follow our blogs. We need support.
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