Live Well with Cancer

Live Well with Cancer was founded in 2019 to help anyone impacted by a cancer diagnosis to improve their health and wellbeing. Since then, our charity has grown and found its own on Nile Street in North Shields, where our community gather for workshops, events, support groups and 1-2-1 support.

As the youngest son of the charity's founder and CEO, Ben began developing The Wellbeing 9-a-Day shortly after the pandemic, initially with the aim of improving his own wellbeing before using his background in education to create sessions and wellness journals that help people improve their quantity and quality of life.

The Wellbeing 9-a-Day

Our Live Well with Healthy Habits campaign promotes the nine habits of a healthy lifestyle, best understood as the Three Pillars of Wellness:

Your JOURNEY from the past, through the present and into the future

- SET INTENTIONS that aim for a better future

- BE PRESENT by connecting with the moment

- LET GO of bad habits formed in the past

Your mental HEALTH, physical fitness and emotional wellbeing

- LEARN to expand your mind

- MOVE to exercise your body

- ENJOY to experience positive emotions

Your RELATIONSHIPS with others, your self and your diet.

- CONNECT to cultivate better relationships

- SELF-CARE to tend to your needs

- Develop a healthy diet with good NUTRITION

Live Well with Healthy Habits app

In response to user feedback, we are seeking funding to develop a Live Well with Healthy Habits app that puts the power in users' hands as they build habits that create positive and lasting transformation.

Phase one of development will create a digital journal that captures all the best bits of our journals, with the additional benefits of prompts and tracking to help users transform their health and wellbeing.

Future iterations of the app will include a mood tracker, practical microlearning and signposting to relevant services so that we can help people to live well with cancer now and long into the future.