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Local Support Service Providers Directory

Visit the LIVING SPORT Events and Courses webpage to find the events and courses that are happening near you

 

Physical Activity contacts for Local Authorities in Cambridgeshire:

Peterborough Vivacity Leisure Services

Look out for the Peterborough Festival this summer, running form the 25th June to the 10th of July 2011. There will be plenty of physical activity events that your organisation can take part in.

Sky Ride at Peterborough

We are working with our Partners British Cycling (and Sky), Vivacity and Peterborough City Council to develop business focused Sky Rides helping businesses to help their workforces improve their health and wellbeing.

Go skyride Peterborough

Breeze Womens Cycle Champions Project

British Cycling has launched Breeze, a new national network of fun, local and flexible bike rides for women. Led by women for women, Breeze bike rides are local, friendly, free and informal. The short, traffic-free rides are ideal for busy mums and anyone who hasn’t been on a bike for a while

Breeze Womens cycle project

Walking for health in Peterborough

Walk with Us is Peterborough’s Walking for Health Scheme. Everybody is welcome on the walks, even people who wouldn’t call themselves active.  Walking makes you feel good and improves your health, and Walk with Us provides an opportunity to have fun and get to know others along the way.

Peterborough Walking for health

 

Fenland District Council Leisure Services, have a Mobile Gym that can visit workplaces to run Health checks and fitness programmes. Visit their website for more information on the Mobile Gym and the adult physical activity and health classes running throughout Fenland.

 

East Cambridgeshire District Council Leisure Services and East Cambridgeshire District Council Sport and Physical Activity Services are the two portals for businesses to access when looking at developing health and wellbeing services in the East Cambridge area. There are walking, cycling and sporting programmes throughout East Cambridgeshire and the District Council is keen to work with businesses to develop more.

You can contact the main switchboard for more information on 01353 665555.

 

South Cambridgeshire  District Council Sports Services

The Sports Services/Development team at South Cambridgeshire District Council can help businesses access local Physical Activity Services to improve workforce health and wellbeing, such as: Running, Fitness4Health, Swimming, Fun Runs, Women’s “Try Netball”.

For more information email Development Officer (Sports and Leisure) (This link will open in a new window) or call 03450 450500.

 

Cambridge City Council Sports and Leisure Services

Cambridge City Council runs and organises many physical activity events that can help businesses improve workplace wellbeing and achieve corporate social responsibility aims:

Get Active, Exercise Referral Scheme, Festivals for company family fun days – and in particular The Big Weekend

For more information please contact the Sports Development team by email at sportsdevelopment@cambridge.gov.uk or telephone 01223 457532.

 

Huntingdonshire District Council Sport and Activity Services

The Sport & Active Lifestyles team offers a wide range of sport and health related activities to promote a healthy population within the district.

The team works closely with a number of partners to help provide these activities, which include specific programmes on adult health and to improve health and wellbeing in the workplace.

TIME OUT - Workplace Health Programme

DASH – Sports activities for adults

Health Walks

 

Working Health

Working Health is a Stamford base company that provides corporate health & well-being solutions to organisations throughout the UK.

Working Health operates two service divisions - ‘Health promotion and Employee Wellbeing Services’; and ‘management of onsite fitness centres’

www.workinghealth.co.uk

 

Staying Healthy at Work

Staying Healthy at Work is an NHS programme designed to improve the physical, mental and social wellbeing of employees across the east of England.

www.stayinghealthyatwork.co.uk

 

Mental Health

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust – Mental Wellbeing support.

Need help with Stress? Concerned about yours or someone else’s mental health? This page contains a list of interesting and useful site that may help.

www.cpft.nhs.uk/Patientscarers/Usefullinks/tabid/156/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

 

The Bodylabs

The Bodylabs is dedicated to helping people dealing with their stressful and demanding lives and get fitter, eat better, relax and enjoy life to the full.

www.thebodylabs.co.uk

 

NHS Cambridgeshire Exercise Referral Scheme

Start-Up and ExSite are the council’s exercise referral schemes for inactive Cambridge residents with medical conditions, whose health would benefit from leading a more active lifestyle.

http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/ccm/content/leisure-and-entertainment/sport-and-fitness/exercise-referral-schemes.en

NHS Cambridgeshire CAMQUIT

NHS Cambridgeshire's stop smoking service CAMQUIT  is encouraging workplaces to support smokers to quit.

These services are free and can include

- workplace smoking cessation clinic for up to 7 weeks,

- Information leaflets and posters with local service information

- Attendance at workplace health events

Contact CAMQUIT : Tel 0800 018 4304; www.camquit.nhs.uk

 

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