Press release: Tantalising London's north-east with healthy living programme

London’s north-east will embrace "food, glorious food" that is both healthy and tasty once Peabody Trust brings its new Activate London initiative to the community this week.

Peabody subsidiary, Community Based Housing Association (CBHA) will host Ladies Who Lunch on Wednesday 31 October in Leyton, as part of the £4.5 million Activate London project, funded by The Big Lottery Fund.

The women of Leyton will enjoy fine flavours at the Score Building on Oliver Road, from 11am - 3pm. Ladies Who Lunch will recruit and train women of all ages and cultures to set up a monthly lunch club on their estate. Members will cook their favourite dishes for a buffet style lunch. Sessions will be held during school hours and a crèche will be available.

The Well-being Road Show will be held on Saturday 3 November at Walthamstow, from 11am-4pm. Locals can watch healthy cooking demonstrations, sample delicious treats at food tasting sessions and partake in an exercise through dance class, all on the CBHA estate at the Queens Road Community Centre.

CBHA Project Coordinator, Ingrid Worrell said: "These events will broaden people’s understanding of nutrition, healthy eating and living. We hope to help all of our residents and the community at large by improving their quality of life and well-being."

Activate London’s Well-being project, lead by Peabody, will be delivered in partnership with other major London housing associations- Community Based Housing Association (CBHA), Metropolitan Housing, Family Mosaic, Circle Anglia and Southern Housing.

More than 84 individual projects will be rolled out in 33 London Boroughs over the next four years, as part of Active 8 London.

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For further information please contact Peabody Trust’s Media Relations Officer, Yasmin Noone on (020) 7021 4210 or email.

Full details of the work of the Big Lottery Fund, its programmes and awards are available on the website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

Notes to editor:

• Peabody Trust is one of London's largest and oldest housing associations, as well as being a charity and community regeneration agency. Founded by George Peabody, an American philanthropist, in 1862, the Peabody Trust Group now owns or manages over 19,500 properties across 27 London boroughs, housing nearly 50,000 people.
• CBHA is a community based housing association which owns more than 1,600 properties located in Waltham Forest. CBHA is a member of the Peabody Group.
• CBHA was formed in April 1996 to continue the groundbreaking work of the Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust (HAT). Established in 1992, the HAT was set-up for ten years to spearhead regeneration on four estates in Waltham Forest.
• The £165 million Well-being programme provides funding to support the development of healthier lifestyles and to improve well-being. The programme will focus on three strands: mental health – to help people and communities to improve mental well-being; physical activity – to help people to become more physically active in their daily lives and in their communities; and healthy eating - for children, parents and the wider community to eat more healthily. To deliver this programme, the Big Lottery Fund have appointed a number of organisations that will each deliver a portfolio of projects in England.
• The Big Lottery Fund rolls out close to £2 million in Lottery good cause money every 24 hours which together with other Lottery distributors means that across the UK most people are within a few miles of a Lottery-funded project.
• The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK since its inception in June 2004.