News from the field
- New Corporate and Community Space in Town Centre
- Food and Fun – A Health Concern
- Through Your Letterbox
- A New Face
- Mobility Problems?
- What’s Happening?
- Strong Environmental Ethos Pays Dividends
New Corporate and Community Space in Town Centre
Vicarage Field are pleased to announce the launch of FIELDZ, a 3,230 ft2 (300m2) facility available for: Meetings, product launches, exhibitions, displays and much more. The facility is fully licensed and is available from £250 plus VAT per day. There are significant discounts for registered charities, community use and multi-day bookings. Contact us for more information
Food and Fun – A Health Concern
Would you like support and encouragement to lead a healthier lifestyle? Vicarage Field are delighted to welcome Health Concern to the centre. Health Concern Café is located at Vicarage Field shopping centre. There is a café sellingy foods and a fitness centre, where you can take part in Fun exercise classes:
- Belly dancing
- various other types of dance, hula hoop and juggling
- Pilate's
- Yoga
- Complementary therapies
- Support groups
- Individual counselling sessions
At the heart of our programme are the Health Trainers The health trainers are a FREE service to anyone 18 and over. Our health trainers are local people who have been trained to have the skills to help you make a real difference to your health. They can put you in touch with other services and community groups but more importantly they can offer practical and personal support. They can offer practical support and advice if you are:
- Looking to lead a healthier lifestyle
- Thinking of giving up smoking or reducing your alcohol intake
- Wanting to be more mobile and physically active
- Thinking of changing to a healthier diet.
They will encourage you to make small but significant changes to enable you to live a healthier lifestyle. A health trainer can help you complete a Personal Health Plan to identify an area of change and will then continue to work with you until you achieve your goal.
For more information or to arrange to meet one of our health trainers, please visit The New Leaf Café at Vicarage Field.
Through your Letterbox
Vicarage Field visitors should look out for our newsletter, complete with some existing offers, which will be dropping through letterboxes in the local area during March 2009.
A New Face
Vicarage Field Management is delighted to welcome Steven Martin to the team as Security Manager. Steve is responsible for ensuring that Vicarage Field is a safe place to shop and is supported by a team of ten security officers. Steven can be contacted through the Security Control Room on 0208 270 7100 (option 2) or by email at securitym@vicfield.co.uk
Mobility Problems?
Short term or long term, our combined operation of Shopmobility and Barking Mobility, are located together in a single unit, opposite the New Leaf Café. They can accommodate your needs, either for an hour, through wheelchair or scooter hire with Shopmobility; or in the longer term through purchase from Barking Mobility.
What’s Happening?
The new Community Notice Board, located on the upper level, next to The New Leaf Café provides free display space to advertise community events and announcements. Let us have your notices, send them to enquiries@vicfield.co.uk
Strong Environmental Ethos Pays Dividends
Vicarage Field Shopping Centre has recently announced the strong progress that the town centre shopping scheme is making towards reducing its environmental impact.
In the past 24 months 98.12 tonnes of card have gone for reprocessing, that would otherwise have gone to landfill. In turn, this has removed from the road 18 HGV journeys of about 50 miles, reducing the CO2 emissions attributable to the centre by 1,797kg; equivalent to more than 10,000 miles of emissions for a family car!
The purchase of additional baling equipment to process and prepare plastics for recycling is now on site and will make a further positive impact and the centre’s carbon footprint.
Just 10% of the cardboard that Vicarage Field recycled last year!
