HENRY Healthy Start, Brighter Future: HENRY Intervention in Slough
Public Health Children and Young People Team identified HENRY intervention as the evidence-based approach which has the greatest potential to reduce childhood obesity rates and improve health outcomes for children living in Slough. HENRY will be central to our strategy to promote a healthy start across Slough.
HENRY- Health, Exercise, Nutrition for the Really Young adopts a holistic approach that brings together these key factors, focusing on parenting, family lifestyle habits, nutrition, physical activity, and emotional wellbeing.
This approach is multi layered and brings together:
• workforce development: equipping health and practitioners with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to tackle sensitive lifestyle issues and make every contact count.
• family programmes: intensive multi-week programmes (group or 1-to-1) for preventive and targeted work for families of children at risk of obesity or other poor health outcomes
• workshops: subject-specific sessions on starting solids, fussy eating, active play & oral health
• peer support: volunteer-led schemes to promote a healthy family lifestyle in local communities.
HENRY intervention works on a ‘Partnership Delivery model’ which can be locally determined and embedded offering greatest sustainability.
HENRY in Slough
Free HENRY Healthy Families programmes and workshops are running in Slough for families with children aged 0-5yrs.
Join us for the 8-week HENRY Healthy Families: Right from the Start group programme as from September 2025.
Our programmes provide practical tools and strategies to build healthier family routines, promote emotional well-being and encourage healthy habits.
For more information, please follow this link: Homepage | HENRY
About HENRY
At HENRY we are passionate about babies and children getting the best possible start in life. This means supporting the whole family to make positive lifestyle changes, creating healthier and happier home environments, and building healthier communities.
Over the past 12 years we have supported thousands of families to transform family life for the better in all sorts of ways – including improved nutrition, emotional wellbeing, parenting skills, breastfeeding, and getting more active. We have worked with over 15,000 health and early years practitioners and collaborated with NHS trusts, local authorities, and many other partners.
A healthy start for a brighter future