Chatsworth Road Lunch Club
Marie, Beatrice, Loretta, Merlin, & Olivene welcome you to the Chatsworth Road Methodist Lunch Club.
The Club serves elders over the age of 60 with a meal, friendship, exercise and craftwork every Thursday from 11.00 am at Clapton Park Methodist Church, 99 Chatsworth Road, E5. The cost of a session is £3.50 including the meal and all the activities.
It begins with group exercise in the morning led by an instructor. After a time of fellowship, lunch is available. Lunch can include soup & dumplings, roast chicken, fried fish, curried goat, sweetcorn, rice & peas, potatoes, vegetables, salad, coleslaw, yam and stew peas. The afternoon concludes with craftwork, or chat over a cuppa.
The club has had healthy living workshops. Topics have included sickle cell and thalassaemia, accident prevention, cancer, how to stop smoking, healthy eating, self-care management, arthritis and exercise. These workshops have started again in 2007.
In September 2005, March 2006 and June 2007, all the community were invited to a community health day at the club... Health Day
Members travel away together once a year for a holiday, and go out on visits, including a day trip to Skegness. They saw the play 'Men Should Weep' at the Hackney Empire.
Members come to the Club from all over the borough including Clapton Park, Hackney, Clapton, Homerton, Stamford Hill and Dalston. The staff, who are all volunteers, and the members together make the club such a success.
Harold sums it up; “A club like this is the best thing that could have happened.”
Lunch Club People
Elmena, Myrtle, Olive & Sarah, Joyce, Cliff, Marie, Beatrice & Joyce, Merlin, Olivene, Pharol, Harold & Olive, Joyce and Joseph.
Lunch Club Activities
Below, our late brother Len plays the piano, and Gloria leads a healthy living workshop on exercise. Here she shows how dance can help keep fit. Boneita and Syliva are on the sowing machines and at a Community Health Day, Beryl checks out information from 'Social Action for Health'. Members enjoy an extra class of excercise called 'Healthy Moves', led by Florent (centre back).
Lunch Club Links
Hackney Council - Thank you to the Elderly People services of Hackney Council for their support.
Social Action for Health - Special thanks also to Social Action for Health for enabling the healthy living workshops with funding from Hackney Community Chest and Hackney Community Learning Chest.
Community Development Fund - Thank you also to Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund of the Community Development Foundation for grant to support the work of the Luncheon Club.
Community Advance Project - works in east London and BME communities. It supports the work of the Lunch Club.
Arthritis Care - This website has information on living with arthritis. Luncheon Club members benefited from their presentation at a healthy living workship.