Communities Keeping Well

Supporting you to live a healthier life

Communities Keeping Well (CKW) are your GPs, the council’s Public Health team, local voluntary sector organisations and residents working together.

CKW is working with eight communities in Tower Hamlets to prevent diabetes, coronary heart disease and respiratory disease.

Since April 2024, residents have come together through a series of community events to design and lead activities to support a healthier life. As well as making these neighbourhoods healthier places to live, it’s a chance for our community to get their voices heard on health and help each other out.

In rounds 1 and 2 of CKW, residents applied for up to £2,000 to launch their own health and wellbeing project in Lansbury, Limehouse East or Barkantine (Isle of Dogs)!

See below for the current free projects in your local area:

Want to try a new & free activity in your local community?

Through rounds 1 & 2 of CKW, new projects emerged led by residents to create healthier communities.

If you’d like to get in touch about any of the projects below, please email leoca.powell@nhs.net or call on 07512313033.

“I absolutely love these Pilates classes. They have created a truly safe and welcoming space where women of all ages, body types, and backgrounds come together to take time for ourselves, focus on our well-being, and exercise without judgment”
— Pilates participant

  • Men's projects

  • Mindfulness for all

  • Legs, Bums & Tums (LBT) & Yoga (Women's Only)

  • St Annes Garden Group (Starting again in March 2026 due to season)

  • Chai & Chat Coffee morning (coming soon!)

  • Women's only Pilates & Circuits class & Women's Talking Therapies

  • Men's exercise and wellbeing group

  • Scraps of Joy: Upcycle, Connect, Thrive (Next session: 23rd February 2026)

  • Women's only Coffee Morning and Crochet Classes

  • Green Mind Project

  • Therapeutic Art Workshop Collage

Important Information:

Lansbury and Limehouse/ Barkantine Community Project Lead volunteering   

We’re always looking for local residents who are passionate about their community and interested in leading projects in the Barkantine or Lansbury & Limehouse East areas. We want to strengthen social connections and improve wellbeing through community-led activities.

If you’d like to be contacted about the next round of this project (round 3), contact Leoca Powell, Communities Keeping Well Project Coordinator on Tel. 07512313033 or email: leoca.powell@nhs.net  

Upcoming events in the South East Locality:

  1. Health fair for Vietnamese and Chinese community, Docklands Settlement, Isle of Dogs, Monday 23rd February 2026

Where we are working in the South East Locality

Lansbury & Limehouse East

Barkantine/ Millwall

Find out about how Healthy Island Partnership is working in the Barkantine area

Find out more about other localities in tower Hamlets through Tower Hamlets Together

How can you get involved?

Volunteer with us

  • Get involved with improving health and wellbeing for local neighbours

  • Street conversations and door knocking (full training and support available & must be 18+ for this)

  • Help us at community events (creche will be available)

  • Training opportunities

  • Community experience

  • Support from NHS and voluntary sector staff

  • Flexibility in volunteering

Collaborate with us

Your organisation can also support this project by helping to spread the word about your activities or joining in partnership to contribute to shaping it. Get in touch by completing the contact form.