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NEW! Derbyshire Mental Health Friendly Clubs
Active Derbyshire has recently launched the Mental Health Friendly Club initiative with the support of organisations across Derbyshire, including Derbyshire Public Health, Erewash Voluntary Action, Compass Changing Lives and Mind Derbyshire. The Mental Health Friendly Club initiative is aimed at sport and physical activity clubs who want to create safer, more supportive environments with a…
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Safer Spaces, Stronger Minds Conference
Tuesday 10th March, together with Active Derbyshire, we were delighted to host the first Safer Spaces, Stronger Minds Conference. ✨ The day brought together organisations from across the sport, leisure and wellbeing sectors to explore how we can continue strengthening safeguarding and welfare practices within our spaces. It was a day filled with thoughtful discussion,…
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Walking Through Winter December 2025 – January 2026
This year Walk Derbyshire is collaborating with Walk Notts to support people to walk more as part of their everyday lives, especially during the Winter season. If you want to get involved and support your community to get walking and active during the Winter months, follow us on social media and share your own posts…
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Study 1: Exploring the strategic and operational understanding of Walk Derbyshire and the development of the Active Neighbourhood and Community Engagement Pilots
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Living with a long term health condition or disability explained through the Spoon Theory
For many people living with a long term health condition or disability being physically active can be mentally and physically challenging. They often need to carefully mange their daily energy and regularly attending activities like walking groups can be challenging. To help better understand what its like to live with a long term health condition…
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Bolsover Compass: Youth Ambassador Programme
Bolsover Compass is part of the Active Neighbourhood Pilot work taking place in Derbyshire. They started a Youth Ambassador programme in Bolsover to support the young people in the area to develop skills for the future, contribute more to their community and bring them together. We joined them at their Halloween trail event, hosted and…
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Warm Welcomes
Warm Welcomes are community spaces in the local neighbourhood bringing people together. Its somewhere people can gather for support, comfort and interact with others. The spaces have recently been given some funding from Rushcliffe CVS to incorporate more physical activity into their existing and emerging Warm spaces. Which has allowed them to run gardening sessions…
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I heard it on the grapevine
I heard it on the grapevine……one step at a timing in Carlton and district………….. • The conversation after the Mapperley Strong and Steady class revealed that many of the participants come from different parts of the world – one lady talked about she had left Finland as a a baby with her family – they…
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Rekindling memories, creating new memories
Rekindling memories, creating memories The Strong and Steady crew ‘go’ to different places in our imaginations on our ‘big marches’. We’ve been up at Everest to bring the news back to the King for his Coronation, we’ve been up Snowdon on St David’s Day and last week we went to Highfield Park at Nottingham University…
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30 days Wild in June
It’s June and we’re having ‘30 days Wild in June’: • Pat goes wild in Woodborough – one of the Calverton Strong and Steady crew, aged 90, tests out the tree swing on their birthday afternoon tea outing. Next trip out at the end of June on a river cruise. • Notts Wildlife Trust Nature…
