Active Hastings comes to Downs Farm

With thanks to funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, Active Hastings is coming to Downs Farm Community Centre for a Family Fun Day, and an Age Friendly Coffee Morning and Activity Taster Day, to help get Hastings moving!

In May half term the Active Hastings team are encouraging Downs Farm residents to join them on Wednesday 28 May, 11am to 2pm, for their Downs Farm Family Fun Day, with multi sports, arts and crafts and family games.  All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Free snacks and soft drinks will be available throughout the day. The day will include activities for all the family. Children under 10 can enjoy free activities with Wriggles and Giggles, including face painting, tattoos, balloon modelling and a disco. And for children aged 8 to 16, there will be free sporting activities (on the rec ground opposite the school), with street sports, football and rugby.

Then on Wednesday 4 June, 10am to 1pm, Downs Farm residents are invited to the Active Hastings Age Friendly Coffee Morning and Activity Taster Day, with free tea, coffee and cake and free activities. Activities include Boccia, New Age Kurling, Pilates, Seated Stretch and a fun game of Active Hastings Bingo.

Residents will also be able to chat to Hastings Police about any community safety concerns they may have. In addition, residents will have the opportunity to share ideas on how funding for Downs Farm can be spent.

Eugenie Demeza, Active Hastings Operations Coordinator said: “We are very excited to be at Downs Farm Community Centre for our two community days and look forward to meeting the residents. In the coming months we will also be bringing a range of new physical activity sessions to the Downs Farm area, which we hope will engage residents, including children and young people, older people, families and people with long term health conditions, watch this space.”

Councillor Glenn Haffenden, lead councillor for housing and wellbeing at Hastings Borough Council, said: “With thanks to the UK Prosperity Fund, we are delighted to bring sport sessions to the heart of the community at Downs Farm. Being more physically active is a fun way to support your physical and mental health and wellbeing, it’s also a great way to connect with others and to reduce loneliness.”

You do not need to book for either session, however, a registration form will need to be completed on the door.  For general queries, please contact Active Hastings on 01424 451051 or activehastings@hastings.gov.uk.

To be kept up to date on the developments in Downs Farm, follow the Active Hastings Facebook page. 

This project is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

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Notes to editor: 
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) proactively supports delivery of the UK-government’s five national missions: pushing power out to communities everywhere, with a specific focus to help kick-start economic growth and promoting opportunities in all parts of the UK.

Active Hastings works closely with local providers of physical activity to give you easy, fun ways to get your everyday dose of physical activity. It only takes 30 minutes a day for adults and 60 a day for children to get fitter, healthier and happier. You can even break it down into 10 minute slots!

Active Hastings coordinates the local Community Physical Activity Network, which brings together schools, sport clubs, National Governing Bodies of Sport, health organisations, the voluntary sector and the private sector to work together, unblock barriers to participation and improve the local sport and physical activity delivery system.

Active Hastings is hosted by Hastings Borough Council, in partnership with East Sussex County Council, and brings together a wide range of local and national partners to ensure that everyone in Hastings can get active.

Find out more at www.activehastings.org.uk or follow them on Facebook ‘Active Hastings’.