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Fit for Life
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Fit for Life
By Susan Powell
Physical activity plans designed for community groups (primarily women) with community groups to meet cultural preferences and special needs adaptations
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This is a project that is fitness improvement focused - with activities designed with community groups ensuring cultural preferences, ownership and inclusion. It comprises workshops, discussion groups and activity. Elements include Happy Practice. Meditation Voice breathing, stretch, cardio and resistance as relevant to group needs. These elements will be experienced in a classroom setting and via outdoor 'green time' activities. Participants will have a fitness screening prior to engagement and adaptation needs identified. G.P. endorsement secured as required. Activities will include body mindful teaching participants to understand how they move and how it impacts on their daily living Activities will be targeted at those currently 'unconditioned' supporting their daily mobility and preparing them for more in-depth independent exercise. Workshops will include diet & nutrition advise.
What we'll deliver:
- Engage with unconditioned community members
- Provide safe structured and culturally relevant physical movement classes
- Improve mental health
- Provide fit to participate assessments
- Teach body mindful behaviour,
- Teach effective breathing
- Promote & practice endorphin production - happy classes
- Provide social engagement
- Improve health for daily living
- Prepare for structured fitness improvement
Why it's a great idea:
This project will support currently unconditioned community members to healthier living via a safe framework that is designed with them, ensuring its relevance to need and cultural preferences. Classes & workshops provide easy access to movement, whilst promoting fitness & physical activity. Structured movement with embedded fitness Workshops and classes inform safe movement practice. Group participants are facilitated to create their preferred activities gain inclusion, develop team skills, and confidence improving physical & mental well-being. The project is delivered in a sharing positive framework. Cultivates enjoyment in movement and is delivered by a health & fitness professional with 23 years experience working in East London diverse Communities delivering social engagement projects.A full understanding of client needs will be met in and empathetic fun environment.
Steps to get it done:
- Have physical movement activities service made known to and engaged with all Tower Hamlets Community Providers
- Have 4 agencies on board with service provision within first month of project going live
- Sign up 10 clients from each of 4 agencies on board with service within first month of provision
The overall aim of this project is to make movement fun and relevant to the participant, removing barriers and creating interest in maintaining and developing life long fitness. Once participants have safe movement practices they will be referred onto local leisure centres and gyms. Also those with a specific interest in becoming a fitness mentor for their group will be mentored onto level 3 health & fitness via secured funding ( learning loan etc) to provide ongoing affordable support to their organisation, Workshops can include ( as relevant to group) happy practice. Body mindful. Basic anatomy. What exercise does. Exercise and you. Voice Breath work, Nutrition, Mind time, safe stretching, increasing cardio, resistance training. Preferred movement practice. Dancercise. Singercise. Outdoor activities. Walking to increase fitness. Woodland leisure green walk. City green mind time, All provision provides fit to move assessment, full administration and progress reporting
Location High Wych
About the space
Tower Hamlets East London is the second most densely populated area in the UK. Culturally rich this diverse population has areas of multi deprivation. There is a clear correlation between deprivation and health inequalities resulting in low healthy life expectancy in the borough is below the national average
Council
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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VolunteerAbout the Project Creator
I am a mature woman who has lived with a chronic health condition for 30 + years managing it with fitness & nutrition. My own health & fitness management meant that I was able to enjoy engagement in life and business and remain an active contributing member of society.
My previous business was running an employment facilitation agency in the East End of London specialising in diverse and disengaged communities. My persoanl health experience and that gained working in the community for 23 years has provided me with the absolute knowledge that exercise, physical activity and structured movement is key to managing physical/mental health & well being - promoting positive functional living & longevity and an essential pathway to quality living, effectively managing lifes varied challenges, gaining and retaining employment.
After the closure of my business in 2018 I took a break and studied health and fitness for my own benefit. On qualifying I realised that structured safe activity support would be hugely beneficial to community health in Tower hamlets and that my years in community provision gave me a real life insight into community barriers and challenges. I decided to draft service delivery plan to support currently 'unconditioned' excluded community members into active movement for pleasure and fitness.
Community agencies are low on funds and reserves post covid therefore funding to provide these services at low or no cost would provide tight accessible package of services that would not impinge on current limited funds and indeed time.
My experience managing funded contracts means that I can provide existing community agencies with targeted movement services and ensure all relevant administration is completed effectively. Additionally I am a seasoned community agency networker.
My favourite aspect of previous business delivery was front line community engagement. I facilitated many community social engagement groups and provided mentoring on a one to one and group basis, enjoying working closely with clients from across all socio demographic groups in a rich diversity of communities.
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