Public Health Resource Centre

-🌱 Leeds 400: From treatment to prevention
Public health in Leeds has evolved—from reacting to illness to focusing on prevention and wellbeing.
The PHRC Health Library supports the workforce with resources to:
✔️ Promote healthy behaviours
✔️ Support prevention
✔️ Reduce inequalities
📚 Books, leaflets, and toolkits available to support your work
👉 Free with PHRC membership

📢 PHRC Newsletter Coming Soon! 📢
Our July newsletter is being prepared as we speak ✍️ and will be landing in members’ inboxes in just a couple of weeks 📬
Don’t miss out on the latest updates, including:
✨ New and updated resources
📣 Campaigns we’re supporting
🎓 Free webinars and training opportunities
…and much more!
👉 Not signed up yet? Make sure you join our mailing list to stay informed and connected https://orlo.uk/PHRC_xVF1Q 💻✅

Help Bring “Just One More” to Your Community 🥕🌱
We’re encouraging our workforce across Leeds to support the Just One More campaign in your day-to-day roles—helping residents make small, sustainable changes to eat more vegetables 💚
Veg can sometimes feel expensive 💸 or tricky to include, but this campaign is all about simple, affordable, and tasty ideas that work for real life 🍽️✨ By starting conversations and sharing tips, you can help families discover easy ways to add more veg to their meals 🥦🥕🌽
👉 Encourage people you work with to get involved by:
🥗 Adding just one more portion of veg to meals
🍎 Including veg as snacks
🥕 Trying a new vegetable or recipe
🌿 Growing their own at home or in the community
👩‍🍳 Sharing ideas and recipes with others
Every small change counts 💫 By promoting Just One More through your role, you can help build healthier habits across Leeds communities 🌍💚

☀️ Planning a Summer Holiday Club or Youth Activity? ☀️
We’ve got you covered! 🎉
At the PHRC, we have a range of fun, active resources available to hire FREE of charge to support your summer events, youth groups and holiday clubs.
From rounders sets and table tennis to scoop toss, fitness dice giant snakes & ladders and mixed activity kits, there’s something to keep everyone active and engaged! 🏃‍♀️🎯
✅ Perfect for groups of all sizes
✅ Great for encouraging fun, movement and teamwork
✅ Completely FREE to borrow
📩 Get in touch to find out more or to book your resources!

📢 New poster alert 📢
Make your veg pledge to the Just One More Campaign using the QR code on this poster - order your copies to display from the PHRC today and encourage your staff, pupils, patients and communities to have just one more!
Order code P699

👶 Child Safety Week – Supporting Leeds Professionals 👶
As part of Child Safety Week, we’re reminding colleagues across Leeds that there are a range of FREE health improvement resources available to support you in your work with children, young people and families.
Whether you’re working in healthcare 🏥, education 📚, community settings 🏡 or beyond, these resources can help you promote safety ✅, raise awareness 💡 and have important conversations 🗣️ with the families you support.

🚗 In Safe Hands (L102)
This handy leaflet contains everything you need to know about child car seats 👶. It includes guidance on UK legal requirements ⚖️, using seat belts when pregnant 🤰, and tips for safely seating children from newborn upwards.
🔄 Get There Safely (L103)
This interactive spinner provides child car seat safety information for parents and carers of children aged 0–12 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, including tips for buying and correctly using car seats.
💻 Be Smart Online (L109)
A child-friendly booklet sharing five smart rules for staying safe online 🌐, gaming 🎮 and using apps 📱, plus signposting to other trusted safety websites.
⚠️ Child Sexual Exploitation: Know the Signs (L112)
A pocket-sized leaflet outlining the signs of CSE and how to spot concerns 👀, with key contact details for support 📞 including Crimestoppers and West Yorkshire Police.

📦 Stock up and make use of these free resources to help keep children in Leeds safe and well.

Safe Phone and Safe Zone offer free, confidential support for young people aged 11–18 in Leeds, as well as their parents and carers. Safe Phone provides daily emotional support via phone, text, and online chat, while Safe Zone offers in-person crisis support in a calm, non-judgemental space.
Also available is Night Owls, an overnight support service (8pm–8am) for children, young people, and families across West Yorkshire, offering reassurance and guidance when other services are closed.
👉 Order your leaflets from the PHRC as part of your FREE membership to help promote these vital services.

📖 Libraries Change Lives – Supporting Better Health in Leeds
For 2026 (1–7 June), we’re celebrating how libraries empower the workforce through reading, learning, and access to trusted information.
In public health, literacy means:
🔹 Helping people understand health information
🔹 Supporting prevention and early intervention
🔹 Reducing inequalities across our communities
📍 At the PHRC Health Library, we provide:
✔️ Books spanning key public health topics
✔️ Leaflets to support patient understanding
✔️ Resources to strengthen health literacy in practice
Together, we can use knowledge to make a lasting difference.
👉 Resources available free with PHRC membership

🌱 Just One More… making a difference!
Here’s another Just One More order going out to a customer this time at LGI 👏
The Just One More Campaign is all about making it simple, practical, and achievable for everyone to increase their vegetable intake — just one pledge at a time.
We’re encouraging all colleagues to get involved by making their own veg pledge via the Food Wise Leeds website 🥕
At the PHRC, we’ve got plenty of resources to help you support the campaign, including:
✅ Posters for primary schools, high schools, families, workplaces and nurseries
✅ Meal planners
✅ Pull-up banners
Whether you’re supporting patients, colleagues, or your local community, it’s easy to get involved and make a positive change.
👉 Why not take the pledge today and inspire others to do the same?

Want to know more about... improving the health of learning disabled and autistic adults
Thursday 2 July 2026, 11am to midday

Creating a healthy lifestyle isn't just about physical fitness; it’s about empowerment, autonomy, and finding joy in wellbeing. For learning disabled and autistic adults, navigating health and wellbeing can often come with unique barriers such as sensory processing differences, navigating complex healthcare systems and inaccessible information.

At this webinar we will be discussing the barriers many people face, and practical ways we can all work together to make healthy living more accessible for everyone.

- insights from the food and nutrition workshop
- insights from delivering health and wellbeing sessions for learning disabled and autistic adults
- the importance of individualised interventions
- the involvement of the individual’s circle of support
- wellbeing duty: the need to support healthy choices
- This online session will be delivered by:

Emma Strachan, Health Improvement Specialist (Food and Nutrition), Leeds City Council Public Health team and Al Mayes, Healthy Lifestyles Project Manager, People in Action

Visit Eventbrite to book your place! https://orlo.uk/5q7uK