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BreathChamps

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We offer a range of social activities
Singing for lung health
Dance Easy chair-based dancing
Forest bathing:nature activities
Breathworks-type demonstrations
Inspirational public speaking - overcoming breathing problems
Brownie and Cub badge for asthma

20/03/2026

Always take your preventer inhaler every day even when you are well.

20/03/2026

Lovely to be at Davyhulme Primary School today to talk to families at school gates about
And then do Japanese forest bathing-creating nature’s washing line.
To learn more visit https://www.breathchamps.com/forest-bathing

19/03/2026

We have activities all across Trafford https://www.breathchamps.com/forest-bathing

19/03/2026

What a lovely day for our Japanese forest bathing at the Quaker gardens in Sale. Thank you to them.
Our invitation was to notice all the colours of the rainbow.
For more on our forest bathing activities visit https://www.breathchamps.com/forest-bathing

14/03/2026

Dose of Nature?
We offer this everywhere in Trafford every week
See www.BreathChamps.com

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09/03/2026

We are part of the Greater Manchester Live Well Festival!
So why not come along?

06/03/2026

We still have a few places left at our nature crafting event on Saturday - book now or DM me

A series of 5 activities for children 3-10 and their families based on the mindful Japanese practice of forest bathing

05/03/2026

Thanks to the The National Lottery Community Fund we can continue working with Breathstars, our Singing for Lung Health Group in Trafford and keep breathless people connected. Do you know anyone with chronic lung conditions like COPD, emphysema and bronchiectasis? These sessions are led by experts helping to improve quality of life, reduce anxiety, and help manage breathlessness. We have a laugh and sing our favourites too! There's also an online singing group led by clinician Heather Henry for those who cant access Breathstars in person. Trafford Family Information Service .fis Home-Start Trafford, Salford & Wigan ❤️

25/02/2026

The season finale of Breatherton is out!
Follow the latest redefinition of Regency-era wellbeing, one lungful of irony at a time..

Follow the latest redefinition of Regency-era wellbeing, one lungful of irony at a time

03/02/2026

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-crafts-programme-for-families-tickets-1974972968313?aff=oddtdtcreator We still have a couple of spaces at our nature crafts activity this Saturday 7th Feb 11.30 at Victoria Park Stretford (near Stretford Mall.
Families with children 3-10 years are invited to make nature shakers and do breathing exercises
We have other family events too - check us out and book via Eventbrite!
Fully funded by Trafford Community Collective, so free for families :)
Trafford Family Information Service Victoria Park Stretford M32M32 Stretford Friends of Stretford Public Hall

A series of 5 activities for children 3-10 and their families based on the mindful Japanese practice of forest bathing

22/01/2026

Tonight is Clean Air Night! 🌍✨ Let’s ditch the wood burners and breathe easy together. Healthier lungs for all! Join us in making the air cleaner—one less log at a time.
(hope you like the pic of me doing singing for lung health dressed as an inhaler!)

22/01/2026

We had a fabulous time at our indoor forest bathing (due to rain) today learning Chinese calligraphy. Thanks to Lisa Pang for teaching us. Thanks to Trafford Community Collective for supporting our forest bathing crafts.
And sorry to any Chinese reading this for my attempts shown here!
To join a forest bathing group visit https://www.breathchamps.com/forest-bathing

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Manchester
M337LQ

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://www.breathchamps.com/

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Brightening children’s futures

I was in Tesco choosing a birthday card for my friend when I heard a child singing the alphabet beside me: ABC..DEFG.. HIJKLM… And I thought, maybe we should share health knowledge this way, through memorable rhymes, stories and games.

Having asthma as a child can affect your life chances. Children may feel stigma, they may feel like victims and they may lack confidence. They may miss school and do less well educationally. I know, because I was that child.

Families also express anxiety that they don't always know how to help. They lose sleep, they miss work and they can be over-protective. Schools and community groups likewise worry about their children with asthma, with child asthma deaths still occurring in the community.

I started something I now call ‘BreathChamps’ with about 30 parents and children at a community Halloween Party in a challenging part of Salford. I reckoned if it worked there it would work anywhere. I had a wolf glove puppet and sang ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf’ at the top of my voice. And the children joined in and helped the wolf (who had asthma) when he couldn't blow down the house of straw for coughing. Most either had, or knew a child with asthma and correctly identified that he needed a blue inhaler to stop him coughing. Children fell over themselves to give the wolf his inhaler correctly through a spacer, in front of everyone.

Then we added the missing preventer when he couldn't blow down the house of sticks – more inhaler technique practice followed. And then he had an acute asthma attack after inhaling smoke when climbing down the chimney in the house of bricks. The parents and children learned that they needed to call an ambulance and give the Big Bad Wolf ten puffs of reliever inhaler, whilst sitting him up and keeping him calm.

I see children's asthma as a family and community issue, where people can learn from each other not just from doctors or nurses, in fun ways. BreathChamps' ideas have been co-produced with families and communities, so tools make sense to them. Clinical appointments, especially group consultations, become 'asthma parties'. Whole schools learn in their assemblies how 9-year-old Captain Fearless defeats the Wheeze Monster using just her inhalers, her spacer and her magic goggles. There is plenty of dressing up and laughter. Children with asthma who become the heroes of the story, not the victims, will grow up with less fear and anxiety and achieve more.

My aim is for BreathChamps to become a social movement, where stories are passed around and in so doing our children are kept safe by the whole community. Community leaders such as Brown Owls, mums and tots leaders, librarians and teaching assistants become part of our extended team. If you aren’t a natural performer, don't worry because these people are – so share a poem and a game with them.

The BreathChamps philosophy can be replicated in other clinical areas. It is about giving away our knowledge to communities in ways they will remember, enjoy and understand. People can add in their own tips and tricks, so we value their expertise as patients and carers.

If you want to learn my stories and share my games please get in touch by sending me a message or emailing heather.henry@brightnessmanagement.org.uk. By September I will be doing workshops in Greater Manchester and Morecambe Bay and online training will also be available from this autumn.

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