FAMILIES in Oxford have been invited to learn more about healthy living at a community event tomorrow.

Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust health trainer Maureen Robertson has arranged six hours of free activities for people of all ages at the Wood Farm Community Centre, in Titup Hall Drive.

Ms Robertson said the aim of the event was to encourage people living in Wood Farm to learn more about the services which are available to them.

She said free taster sessions in yoga, seated exercise and neck and shoulder massages would be available. Literature on healthy eating and giving up smoking will also be provided, and people attending the event will be asked if there are any activities, such as exercise classes for young mums, which they would like to see run regularly on the estate.

Ms Robertson, whose role is to help improve mental and physical wellbeing in Wood Farm and Barton, will then look at the logistics of putting the suggestions into practice.

She said: “The aim is to provide something more permanent in Wood Farm. I just feel that a lot more could be going on here — we have the community centre there, and we could have different things going on in it.”

Caroline Lattin-Rawstrone, information and events co-ordinator at Oxford Carers’ Centre, which will have a stall at the event, said: “The health day is a really good idea.

“We are there to help people, and carers often suffer with their health. We are trying to do this sort of outreach work all the time.”

The health day will run from 10am to 4pm.