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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…
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…
Warm Welcomes: Bringing the community together in Beeston.
On the 17th of August the Active Notts team were invited to join Harvest Community Haven’s BBQ event for some Warm Welcomes filming. Warm Welcomes are free community spaces open to residents, bringing people together and supporting them. Harvest Commmunity Haven (HCH) is a black led Church in the Beeston area serving and supporting the…
Park voice…..
• I sauntered around George V and Carlton Hill Recs looking for benches – quite a few – and toilets – none. • It was lovely to see the parks being used by young and old. • And I got talking to a wonderful Childminder who looks after kids with special needs – she takes…
Falls Prevention and Management classes are not just any old exercise class……….
A couple of stories from this week’s Strong and Steady Falls Prevention and Management classes: • I got a message from one of the participants saying that she’d had her knee replacement operation on Monday and that the exercises she’d done at the classes before the operation had really helped as she was able to…
Overheard and seen in Falls Prevention classes this week 3/03
We exercised • This week saw us ‘marching into March’. We went up Snowdon for our big marches on St David’s Day and through woodlands, around tarns and up Lake District fells on the other days, looking out for Peter Rabbit and reciting Wordsworth’s poem ‘Daffodills’. As well as strengthening our heart, lungs and legs,…
Overheard and seen in Falls Prevention classes this week – 3/03/23
Well today saw: • me demonstrating how to put the cover on a duvet • one lady who struggled to stand up from her chair on week 1 standing up, getting down to the floor on one knee and up again on her own 5 times on today, week 20, saying she was really proud…
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