Help 2 Quit is the free NHS stop smoking service in Shropshire – you are four times more likely to quit with our help than if you attempt to stop smoking on your own.

Specially trained Help 2 Quit advisers are available in venues across the county to help you to put your plan to stop smoking into action.  Your first Help 2 Quit appointment normally lasts 30 minutes, then your Help 2 Quit adviser will provide all the help and support you need during the 12 week programme.

You can refer yourself directly into the Help 2 Quit service or ask your GP or another health professional for a referral.

There is a weekly Help2Quit session at Park Lane Centre every Monday from 10.00am-2.00pm.  Phone Sandra Shutt (H2Q Nurse Specialist) on 07799 416849 to make an appointment.

Help2Quit in Pregnancy

Smoking during pregnancy can be extremely damaging for both mother and child. If you are pregnant, our Help 2 Quit Nurses and pregnancy Support Workers can give you, and your friends and family, extra help and support to quit smoking in a variety of settings to suit you.  Simply ask your midwife to be fast tracked into the Help 2 Quit service or call Help 2 Quit on 01743 366940.

Further information is available on the National Help line on 08001 690169 and at www.dh.gov.uk/tobacco and http://smokefree.nhs.uk/. 

Why YOU should join FAIRshare?

FAIRshare is a non-profit making ‘community bank’ for savings and loans exclusively for anyone who lives or works in the Borough of Telford & Wrekin, Broseley and Much Wenlock. Junior Accounts are also available for children and can be opened on their behalf from birth.

As soon as an adult opens a FAIRshare account they become a member as well as a shareholder in the company. Regular savings create a ‘pool of money’ which is used to provide low cost loans to members - from as little as 1% per month (12.68% APR) which is significantly less than other lenders.

What else makes us different?

Unlike high street banks and building societies we DON’T carry out any credit checks before we will let you open an account. We DON’T allow any previous CCJs - bankruptcy or insolvency - to prevent you from joining. And we DON’T charge for any of the services we provide. All we DO ask is that you pay a one-off membership fee of £5 when you open your account and save a regular amount each month. 

You can add to your savings at any time - by payroll deduction from your salary, standing order from your bank account, in person at any of our branches, by direct transfer from your pension, housing allowance or other benefit payments or by using your FAIRshare PayPoint card. You can also take out your money at any time - either in person at any of our branches, by phone or via email - whichever suits you.

Just Credit Union is a ‘not for profit’ financial co-operative owned and controlled by its members.

Community Fund

Community Fund loans are available to people on low incomes that have no previous savings record with the credit union.

• Low cost loans at affordable rates now available in the Telford area.
• Weekly, fortnightly or monthly replayments.
• No hidden charges.
• No early repayment penalties.
• No savings requirement.
• Free life insurance to pay off the loan in the event of your death.
• Quick decision available.
• All loan applications will be credit checked.

You must become a member of Just Credit Union when making your application – membership fee £2.00, Just Credit Union is authorised and regulated by the financial services authority.

Just Credit Union Ltd

Shirehall

Abbey Foregate

Shrewsbury, SY2 6ND

Tel:  01743 252325

Fax:  01743 252937

www.justcreditunion.org

Our aims and principles

The Citizens Advice service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination. Our aims are to provide the advice people need for the problems they face, and to improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives.

What we do

The Citizens Advice service helps people to resolve their problems. As the UK’s largest advice provider we are equipped to deal with any issue, from anyone, spanning debt and employment to housing and immigration plus everything in between. In the last year alone, the Citizens Advice service helped 2.1 million people with 7.1 million problems. But we’re not just here for times of crisis –we also use clients’ stories anonymously to campaign for.

How the public knows us

The Citizens Advice service offers information and advice through face-to-face, phone and email services, and online via Adviceguide.org.uk. Between them, Citizens Advice Bureaux make face-to-face advice available from over 3,500 locations including high streets, community centres, doctors’ surgeries, courts and prisons.

Our generous eating plan makes slimming easier than you ever thought possible! Instead of telling you what you can and can’t eat, Food Optimising puts you in control. You don’t even need to worry about weighing your food, counting points or monitoring every mouthful – it’s so liberating! Combined with our tried and tested weight loss support system, really is a recipe for success!

Slimming World’s modern and highly effective approach to weight loss is empowering and enabling. Our support – online and in group – is based on a deep understanding of how you feel and a passionate desire to help you achieve your personal weight loss goals – and maintain them for life!

Success isn’t achieved by setting impossible standards or through humiliation it’s achieved through caring, compassion and respect for you. You decide what size you want to be and we’ll help you get there, where you want to be. At Slimming World we work together to help you look and feel great – body, mind and soul.

Taste The Difference

• Never go hungry again! Our Free Food list includes masses of food that you can eat in unlimited amounts.
• Eat as much as you want, when you want!
• No food is banned! Enjoy your favourite treats every day and still lose weight.
• We’ll support you every step of the way – online and in group where our Consultants and your fellow members want you to succeed just as much as you do!
• You set your own target. You choose the weight you want to be and together we’ll achieve it.

Drop in any Monday morning between 9am & 11am for fee use of a computer to:

• Use the internet
• Produce a CV
• Look for work
• Practise your computing skills
• Set up an email address

Staff are also available to advise on local courses and gaining a qualification. This service is provoded by Lifelong Learning, for more information please call 01952 382181

Health visitors are available to provide help and support for families with children under the age of five with weighing and general development advice.  

This group runs along side Parenthood and Beyond (Woodside Family Groups) and baby massage is also available.

You’ll get the guidance that you need to succeed and stay on track. In fact, studies have shown that participation in the Weight Watchers programme results in significant improvements in weight loss, activity levels, and quality of life.² Combine over 40 years of expertise, a supportive community, and a trained Leader who’s lost weight in meetings too, and the result is a proven, time-tested way of losing weight.

Meets on Thursdays from 6.30pm-8.30pm

The Health Trainer service is a health improvement service providing one to one advice for individuals, who require practical support with lifestyle changes. The service offers assessment, targeted advice and follow up, as well as onward referral to specialist lifestyle risk management support and other services.

The aims of the Health Trainer service are to:

• Work with individuals from the target population to carry out a lifestyle health risk assessment;
• Inform each individual about possible risks to health as a result of their lifestyle;
• Enable these individuals to make changes in their behaviour to achieve a positive impact on their health;
• Bring these individuals into more effective contact with mainstream health improvement and other local services - such as smoking cessation, weight management, opportunities for exercise, screening and wider health and social care services as deemed appropriate by the Primary Care Trust (PCT).

The Health Trainers are at Park Lane Centre on Thursdays from 1pm

Would you like to join something unique and exciting?  Do you want to get fit, lose some weight and have fun at the same time?

Come along to our sessions for healthy eating advice and a weekly weigh in before you exercise!

Every Tuesday 10am-11am, Free to join, £2.50 per session (buy 4 and get 1 free)