The ASPIRE toolkit: make ASPIRE work for you
29 Mar 2023
C3 collaborated with ASPIRE partner Vivons en Forme (VIF) to create resources that makes it easier for organisations, communities and individuals to make long term behavioural changes and lead healthier lives. From a healthy cookbook, tips for buying better food for less, workshops and more, C3 have adapted multiple resources on food, physical activity, sleep and wellbeing.
ASPIRE: addressing obesity and unemployment
16 Feb 2023
C3 Collaborating for Health is working with 16 partner organisations to deliver ASPIRE (Adding to Social capital and Individual Potential In disadvantaged REgions) – an EU funded project addressing obesity and unemployment in France and England through a holistic approach to diet, physical activity, and employment support. Why not try out the ASPIRE model?
Insight session in Abbeville for ASPIRE
27 Sep 2021
In early September, we ran an initial data gathering session with members of the community in the northern French town of Abbeville in Picardy. As a partner in Project ASPIRE, C3 is engaging with 7 different communities across the south of England and the north of France to survey their environments using CHESS™, with a view to reducing obesity and enhancing employability.
Project ASPIRE: Wimereux
05 May 2021
C3 and community members took to the streets in the French commune of Wimereux to identify barriers to good health and develop an action plan for change. Read details about their findings and next steps, including plans to redevelop the children's forest.
ASPIRE in the town of Ham
26 Apr 2021
Community members of Ham are keen to identify solutions that will allow them to use the space around them to practice outdoor activities and acquire a better knowledge of the local food systems. Through C3's CHESS tool, they identified their communities' strengths and weaknesses and developed ideas for change.
The wealth health gap: my health my right
06 Apr 2024
This years’, World Health Day theme is “My health, my right”. The face that our health is a basic and essential asset that affects all other aspects of our lives, and that health is a right has been almost universally accepted. In fact, the 1946 Constitution of the World Health Organisation (WHO) expands on the right to health as the following: “The right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health”, with the term health defined as: “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or... Read More
Obesity and weight stigma in the workplace
13 Mar 2023
As part of ASPIRE - an EU funded project addressing obesity and unemployment in France and England - C3 in collaboration with our ASPIRE partner VIF, has written a practical-guide to help employers better understand and prevent weight based stigma, both in the recruitment process and within the workplace itself.
C3 meets the London Community Kitchen
25 Nov 2022
On 8 November 2022, C3 travelled to Harrow and Wealdstone in West London to visit London’s Community Kitchen (LCK). Having started in a small church, LCK is now operating out of three London boroughs – Barnet, Ealing, and Harrow – where the H.Q. sits within a large community centre building. Led by Taz Khan, the space gave a feeling of community, hope, and motivation. The group spent the morning taking a tour of LCK, winner of the Observer Food Monthly Awards 2022, to see what all the buzz was about. In the UK more than 9 billion tons of food is... Read More
Nurses for Healthier Communities: Advisory group
10 Nov 2022
The link between physical activity and cancer
31 Oct 2022
Physical inactivity is itself a pandemic – and a leading cause of death globally. According to the World Health Organization over a quarter of the global adult population (1.4 billion adults) is insufficiently active. Why is physical inactivity such a problem? The undisputed benefits of physical activity on physical and mental health are well documented, and subsequently, physical activity is a key pillar of all chronic disease prevention strategies worldwide.