Episode 14: It’s been a busy week, a few updates
Wednesday 16th May, 2018
We’ve had a lot of interesting meetings, which we’re quite exited about so we thought we’d take a few minutes to update you on what we’ve been planning.
Tag: Lake Health and Wellbeing
Launch of Lake Health and Wellbeing and Noire Wellness Fibroids Campaign
The theme for International Women’s Day this year is #PressForProgress and Noire Wellness and Lake Health and Wellbeing are calling for everyone to #PressForProgress to improve the experience of women with fibroids.
The theme for International Women’s Day this year is #PressForProgress and Noire Wellness and Lake Health and Wellbeing are calling for everyone to #PressForProgress to improve the experience of women with fibroids.
For progress to be made, we need:
- Breakthrough research into fibroids and ethnicity
- Patient insight on the impact of diet and exercise on fibroids
- A commitment to professional excellence when caring for women with fibroids, who have a family history of fibroids or who have symptoms associated with fibroids
- Global and local support networks to ensure that women with fibroids never feel isolated
- Greater awareness of fibroids, its symptoms and impact on women’s lives, particularly the psycho-social impact.
We want all women, particularly women who have been affected by fibroids, to join us in our social media campaign to highlight the change that needs to occur to improve the experience, care, health and wellbeing of women with fibroids.
We’ve created a range of resources so that you can join us in this campaign. For more information on how you can get involved please visit our campaign page here.
Our Name Change is Complete
Hello all, this is just a quick post to let you know that our name change is formally and legally complete. We have now changed our name from The Lake Foundation to Lake Health and Wellbeing.
As you know, we moved to the Caribbean from the UK and the move provided an opportunity for us to make some improvements to our organisation which involved the name change and an analysis of our work.
We believe the name change better reflects what we do, and we’ve analysed our work and have categorised what we do as follows: research, public health interventions, consultancy and events. This is similar to our previous categories and we’ve now explained each category and included examples of the type of work we do to make it easier for our supporters to understand what we offer.
We still have the same aim of improving the health and wellbeing of the black community and we’re still pretty much the same organisation except we’re now registered as a business rather than a charitable incorporated organisation. This is because the charitable incorporated organisation structure doesn’t exist in the Caribbean, but we’ll still behave in the same way, so we’ll be an ethical business with a social mission.
We have now changed all our social media handles, you don’t have to do anything as we have retained all our followers, but please remember if you want to send us a message via social media or mention us in posts, to use the new handles, which are:
- Facebook @lakehealthwellbeing
- Twitter @lakehealthwell
Our email addresses will remain the same for now, we’ll alert you when we make any changes.
Thank you so much for all your support and we look forward to continuing this exciting journey of change. Have a great week and if you have any questions, please do leave us a comment below.