Community Development Learning Opportunities

The Community Development work is about building active and sustainable communities based on social justice, mutual respect, participation, equality, learning and cooperation. It involves changing power structures to remove the barriers that prevent people from participating in the issues that affect their lives (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), 2008)

We are focusing on one of the principles which are working and learning together, this is collaboration and sharing experiences which is vital to good community activity. Currently, we are focusing on health and wellbeing. We are therefore offering bite-size sessions in the following areas:

Cancer Screening Sessions:

The Community Development Team is offering bite-sized sessions to enable participants to understand the 3 types of main cancers and how to access screening services. The 3 types of cancers are breast, bowel and cervical. The sessions are suitable for:

• Members of staff
• Health and care workers
• Members of the community groups

For more information and to sign up fill in the online form

Long-term Conditions Sessions

NHS South West London Health and Care Partnership has developed a Long-Term Conditions (Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Diabetes) toolkit, including resources in other languages to improve accessibility for individuals from different communities for whom English is not their first language. This also ensures individuals are able to look after their health and wellbeing during the pandemic and longer-term.

Bite-sized sessions are available under 5 subject areas:

1. Diabetes symptoms and management
2. Diabetes - Diabetes and food
3. Diabetes - Emotional wellbeing in Diabetes
4. Asthma
5. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

For more information and to sign up fill in the online form

Test and Trace Sessions 

We all need to play our part in minimising the spread of Covid-19 across the borough, which is why we are delivering general and targeted test and trace sessions for voluntary organisations.

The session will include:

1. Introduction to Keeping Kingston Safe
2. Information on outbreak plans
3. Introduce and outline the different options when calling the 119 number
4. How NHS contact tracing works
5. What support is available to Kingston residents if they have to self-isolate

For more information and to sign up fill in the online form

For more information please contact: communitydevelopment@kingston.gov.uk