Archive for Bolton NHS

The Hole Truth

  Following a brief from NHS Bolton, in conjunction with Bolton Council and Bolton Safeguarding Children Board, Portfolio have created a hard-hitting awareness campaign informing young people about how to avoid the health risks and dangers of body piercings. To fully engage the teenage age-group, the brief demanded peer-to-peer delivery, bite-size information and high-impact branding.  [...]

We’d love to do it with you

Everyone’s doing it in Bolton. And before the sniggering and wink-wink, nudge-nudge stuff starts, let us explain… Portfolio have been working with Bolton NHS to promote their Get Active campaign, set up to make sure older adults are getting plenty. (Oh do behave!) As the examples show, the campaign uses innuendo to grab attention and [...]

‘Get Active’ website launched

On behalf of the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust ‘Get Active’ team, Portfolio was proud to launch the brand new ‘Get Active’ website on the 18th of July 2011. The ‘Get Active’ team work with community groups and local residents to find simple ways of making physical activity fun and more importantly accessible, by providing a [...]

Active Young Bolton launched!!!

Active Young Bolton is a pioneering website developed to help local families and young people to find fun and healthy activities that cater for all levels of abilities and diversity of interest. Working closely with Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, the launch of the new website coincides with the start of this years summer holidays making [...]

More winning ideas for Bolton Primary Care Trust

To help Bolton Primary Care Trust deliver workshops on positive mental health to a wide audience in schools, workplaces and community groups, Portfolio didn’t play around. What we did do was create Upsy/Downsy – a board game designed for 4 to 6 players. Taking care of everything from game conception to bespoke illustration, we delivered [...]

Working on making Bolton’s workplaces healthier

Targeting businesses of all sizes in the Bolton area, the aim of the Clock on 2 Health initiative was to promote wellbeing in the workplace by encouraging everyone from employees to senior management to make small changes to their lifestyles. Covering themes including Move More, Eat Well, Feel Better, Drink Safe, Be Flexible, Breathe Easier [...]

Talking Bolton’s language to reduce the pressure on A&E

Although A&E facilities are there for everyone’s use, Bolton NHS wanted to make people understand when they should be going there for treatment and whether a trip to their GP or an NHS walk in centre might be more appropriate. Encouraging people to use health resources more responsibly helps reduce the pressure on A&E departments, [...]