The Healthy Hub East Herts guide to living with lockdown

Activities and web resources to help you with staying at home during the current Covid-19 lockdown times
The following resources are for all ages and people to help practically with your wellbeing and keeping occupied. The Healthy Hub East Herts is keen to help you whatever your situation to support your own health and wellbeing now and in the future.

Please look at the following categories below which have a range of links and ideas, where there is information related to a particular age it will say so to help you find what you are looking for as easily as possible.

Wholesome and healthy food

For family cooking with the kids
Download the Lunchbox Detectives cookbook 
Food on a budget

Try out some recipes from our Meet and Eat project cookbook 
Asian and Community Food - you can use this booklet for a range of recipes which help you to celebrate Asian and Community food in a healthier way.

Keeping active and well

PE for children
Chair work out
Chair based exercise routine
Home Fat Burners

Combined resources for physical activity at home and healthy eating from Hertfordshire Families First

 
Mental wellbeing

Lots of resources for all ages including links to downloadable apps from Hertfordshire Families First

Families First News
Five steps to mental wellbeing

Local mental health and wellbeing support

Mind in mid Herts
Herts Mind Network 
NHS One You 

Wider wellbeing support

Please see the Healthy Hub East Herts local partners section about the services they offer

Mental health and wellbeing at work

Mental health at work
Work team wellbeing pointers

Active mind

Puzzles for young children
Puzzles for older children 

Learning resources and online classes

We have a whole range on online learning resources,  events and classes here.Why not learn about something you don’t normally have the time or energy to focus on

OpenLearn
FutureLearn
Music to relax with or something more upbeat
Digital skills learning and grants  

Five ways to wellbeing  
Chicken shed living letters - generations connectingIf you have care homes or group settings that may benefit from this scheme to help prevent lockdown loneliness please contact [email protected] for more details.