Support your community as a Barnet Health Champion

Barnet Health Champions are a network of people who live, work or study in the borough, who are passionate about the health and wellbeing of their community.

Initially set up in November 2020, as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It began as a way to empower Barnet residents to stay up to date with the latest COVID-19 guidance. As well as enabling two-way communication between Barnet residents and Public Health. Now a team of 250 the Health Champion network has now broadened to encompass wider health topics.

What can you expect?

• Weekly health and wellbeing updates specific to Barnet in the ‘Friday Facts’ newsletter.
• Fortnightly meetings with Public Health, local organisations and NHS with up-to-date health information.
• Access to a whole range of resources, from information on COVID-19 vaccines to signposting to health and wellbeing services in the borough.

What we ask of you?

• To share this latest health information with your friends, family, work colleagues and wider networks.
• To feedback your community's health and wellbeing issues, needs and concerns.

The role is flexible to fit around how much time you can give, and you can choose how much you want to get involved. You can attend Information sessions (on Zoom) and share the information that you feel is most relevant to your networks. There are also opportunities to take the role in-person, into the community, at specific local events.

Sign up now:

• If you live, work, study or volunteer in Barnet, sign up as a Health Champion today
• Have a read of your Welcome Pack that will be emailed to you
• Visit the Resource Bank for shareable resources the latest information about health and wellbeing in the borough
• Come along to the next Information session

Health Champions is being delivered by Barnet Council in partnership with Groundwork London, part of Barnet Together. If you have any questions, please email the team at barnethealthchampions@groundwork.org.uk

Together we can do all we can to make sure that everyone in Barnet has the information they need to stay safe and healthy. Thank you for being part of making this happen.