CELEBRATE AGE with free activities - Oct 09 - Press Releases - LIVING SPORT

CELEBRATE AGE with free activities - Oct 09

Cambridgeshire Celebrate Age (CCA) are launching activities across the county and the Fenland launch event is at the Manor Leisure Centre on the Thursday 1st October 2009 and would love to invite you to come along.

We want you to come and join in a variety of free activities, including an aqua class, a showing of Alfred Hitchcock 1954 suspense film ‘Rear Window’, Dancing for Fun and Better Health Tea dance, taster sessions in Easyline (a form of resistance training), free health checks, and information from local services and organisations.

The aqua session is at 10am at the Manor Leisure Centre pool, with the afternoon activities kicking off at 1pm. For a full timetable of events please contact Claire on 01487 849912, or claire.smith@livingsport.co.uk, to book onto the Aqua class please contact the centre directly on 01733 202298.

Diana Minns (CCA Chair) said ‘With over 150 events around the county in October, Cambridgeshire Celebrates Age 2009 will be our biggest and most varied programme yet, and we would love to see you at the Fenland Launch”

Claire Smith (LIVING SPORT Dancing for fun and Better Health) said ‘We are very happy and excited to be involved with this year’s activities, and we welcome everyone to try dancing at any of our classes starting with the tea dance on the 1st October’.

Notes to Editors:

Cambridgeshire Celebrates Age has now been running for a number of years. It aims to:

• Promote well-being and improves the quality of life of older people by increasing opportunities to socialise, be active, keep fit and health, enjoy life and be valued member of their communities and society.
• Dispel the myth that increasing age automatically means dependency and disability, showing off the skill that older people have and demonstrating their continuing contributions to their families, communities and societies.
• Improving access to information so that people of all ages can make better informed choices.

LIVING SPORT is the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough County Sport Partnership and the lead delivery organisation for the Dancing for Fun and Better Health Project. LIVING SPORT works with individuals, clubs, partners in health and education, and local authorities, to ensure communities can play, achieve and enjoy. www.livingsport.co.uk 

Dancing for fun and better health is a project part of ‘Fit as a Fiddle’ that promotes dance and movement classes for over 50’s within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Fit as a fiddle (www.fitasafiddle.org.uk) is a national portfolio of projects led by Age Concern England, developed and delivered by a national coalition of partners to meet the demands of demographic changes and increased life expectancy. The portfolio has been made possible thanks to a £15 million grant from the Big Lottery Wellbeing Fund. (www.biglotteryfund.org.uk).

If you would like more information regarding the Fenland Launch event, Cambridgeshire Celebrates Age or further information, photos or interviews, please contact Claire on 01487 849912, claire.smith@livingsport.co.uk

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