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, including mental health, cardiovascular disease prevention and childhood immunisations.

What can you expect?

• Regular health and wellbeing updates specific to Barnet in the ‘Fortnightly Friday Facts’ newsletter.
• Regular online meetings with Public Health, local organisations and NHS with up-to-date health information.

What e 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 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.

Become a Barnet Health Champion

If you're interested in becoming a Barnet Health Champion, please contact barnethealthchampions@groundwork.org.uk to find out more.

More information

Health Champions is being delivered by Barnet Council in partnership with Groundwork London, part of Barnet Together. Health Champions are members of the public and are not representatives of the London Borough of Barnet; they share information, they do not provide medical advice. 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.