A GROUP has been set up to support residents around Slough with life post-pandemic.

Slough CVS and #OneSlough has arranged for the Community Wellbeing Champions (CWC) to travel around the town checking how individuals are coping with day-to-day changes we move out of the pandemic.

The team will also be using this project to help promote take up of the vaccine.

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Slough CVS said it is “vital” that as many young people as possible take up the vaccine to protect the vulnerable from getting hospitalised.

The group will also visit people with long Covid, who have yet to return to normal life despite them no longer having the virus.

Slough Observer: Picture: Mike SwiftPicture: Mike Swift

Jamie Green, chairman of Slough CVS and organiser of the Wellbeing Champion Project, said: “We will be out all across the borough covering festivals, community events and knocking on people’s doors.

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“We are all people from Slough who want to make a difference to the wellbeing of residents, and we are already out there in the community.

“Wherever you are in Slough you will never be far from one of the CWC’s.”