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The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is one of the official Olympic sporting We would like to invite you to a consultation venue hosts. We are looking to the Games workshop on 7 March to consider the following to inspire, change and to deliver a strong topics that we are focusing on this year. message of living life locally. Access to services in a crisis We are looking for residents to volunteer in supporting organisations that are delivering Respect and involvment sporting activities and events in and around the borough. Physical health As part of the legacy, volunteers could help facilitate sessions, organise events Carer involvement and promote these activities to their local community. This workshop will include a LINk member, service user / carer representative, lead This could be anything from supported commissioners and GPs as well as internal swimming to organising a street party for the stakeholders to discuss CNWL’s Quality Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. A Bikeathon is priorities for next year. planned for March and a Fashion Show on Portobello Road in September. Date / Time All volunteers will have support from the Volunteer Centre throughout the programme Wednesday 7 March 2012 and training will be provided to include First 1.30pm - 5.00pm Aid, Health & Safety, Events Management and Customer Service. All volunteers will receive recognition of their participation. Venue : Bevan Room 1& 2 Trust HQ Stephenson House, Hampstead Short and longer term volunteering opportunities are also availble after the Road, London NW1 2PL Olympics. If you need further information please contact If you have any questions, please do not the Volunteer Centre on 020 8960 3722 or hesitate to contact either Ela Pathak-Sen drop in: (Associate Director for Quality and Service Canalside House Improvement, [email protected]) or 383 Ladbroke Grove Matt Malherbe ([email protected]) London W10 5AA or call Sharon Wilson on 020 8960 3722 or email: [email protected] 29435_CarersNewsletter.indd 2 16/2/12 14:50:28 Local Events Achievable A goal must be realistic. The best goals require us to stretch slightly to accomplish them but Get SMART with a Health Trainer in 2012 at the same time, they are not impossible to achieve. For example: Every year many of us make health-related “If I start exercising regularly from New Year’s Resolutions and plan to take up tomorrow I will lose 3 kilograms in 3 to 4 new challenges and set new goals. This might weeks” include; wanting to exercise more, quitting smoking or eating more healthly. Unfortunately Realistic we often lose our motiviation and never A goal must be relevant to us and it must achieve what we set out to do. Why is this so? represent something that we are willing and able to work towards, if a goal seems worthy Frequently, our goals are not fulfilled because and meaningful to us it is more likely to be we do not formulate them correctly. One well achieveable. For example: know goal setting technique is the SMART goal approach. “I want to lose weight to help me feel good” Setting goals according to this technique can Timed increase our chances of achieving what we We should set goals within a time frame. If we wish because it makes us think more about give ourselves a target date, a commitment to what we want to accomplish and how we a deadline will give us a sense of urgency and should go about it. It also allows us to clearly help us to focus our efforts on completion of see how we are doing, inspiring us to work the goal. For example: harder. “I will start exercising from tomorrow to SMART stands for Specific, Measureable, lose weight by 31st of March” Achievable, Realistic and Timed, consequently goals should be: Health Trainers There are numerous, free services available Specific to improve our health and wellbeing, such The goals we set must be very clear to give us as Health Trainer Services. In Kensington & a clear picture of what we want to achieve. To Chelsea our Health trainers are local people make goals specific we should state exactly, who help others set and realise SMART goals.