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Meet Activity Leader Sunshine Sam
Getting active and becoming a Zumba instructor helped Sam through some of life’s lows.
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Active Neighbourhood Scans Insight
Over the Summer of 2025, Amber Valley Walk Derbyshire Consortium and Move More Amber Valley completed 18 Neighbourhood Scans in the Somercotes, Riddings and Ironville areas and gathered some rich insight.
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First ever Derbyshire Forest Games
The first ever Derbyshire Forest Games was hosted at Lea Green on Tuesday 1 July, for young people aged seven to ten, many of which may not usually get the chance to be active outdoors. The event saw over 180 students take part from a range of schools including Buxton Junior School, Darley Dale School,…
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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: 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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
