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Balfour Beatty Living Places East Sussex Highways supports Active Hastings
Published 07/05/2024
With thanks to funding from Balfour Beatty, Active Hastings are delighted to announce their Men: Mind and Muscles course and Street Sport sessions will continue throughout 2024.
The free Men: Mind & Muscles course is an eight-week course for men who want to learn coping strategies to help manage their mental wellbeing. The friendly, non-judgemental sessions kick off with a 45-minute talking group session led by Natalie Greenall from Believe in You, followed by a 45-minute exercise class with a Personal Trainer. The course is designed to encourage men to not only talk about their feelings, worries and anxieties, but to develop coping strategies and explore the link with physical health and how this can have a positive impact on their lives too. To register your interest in the course visit: eequ.org/experience/3356
The free Street Sport sessions take place at various locations throughout the town, including the Robsack Cage, Quantock Gardens, Farley Bank, Downs Farm and Four Courts. The free weekly drop-in sports sessions are for children aged 8 to 16, where they can join the Active Hastings team for football, tennis, unihoc, archery, fitness, basketball and much more. For more information visit: www.activehastings.org.uk
Cath Donovan, Active Hastings Co-ordinator, said: "We are so grateful to Balfour Beatty for their very kind and generous support to ensure we can continue to run our Men: Mind and Muscles course and Street Bite sessions for another year. Being able to provide these free sessions to the local community is essential in ensuring physical activity is accessible to everyone throughout the town. We were also delighted to be joined by the Balfour Beatty team at our recent Easter Holiday Activity and Food sessions, where members of their team volunteered and even came with Easter Eggs for all the children to enjoy."
Mat Jarman, Balfour Beatty, said "Balfour Beatty Living Places with East Sussex Highways are proud to be sponsoring Active Hastings with funding towards their Street Sports sessions this year. Active Hastings are doing some amazing work to provide positive role models and alternative channels for youngsters at risk of being involved in local low level crime. We are delighted to see the difference these sessions are going to make to the community in some of the most deprived areas found anywhere in the country. As a team who care about our community and genuinely want to make a difference at a local level, we are looking forward to getting involved in some of the sessions ourselves and seeing how else we can support this amazing scheme."
To keep up to date on Active Hastings activities, follow their Facebook page or visit their website www.activehastings.org.uk.
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Photo Caption: The Active Hastings and Balfour Beatty team
Notes to editor:
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'.
For more information contact Emma Bailey, Social Marketing and Communications Officer, Active Hastings, Hastings Borough Council on 01424 451145 or email emma.bailey@hastings.gov.uk
Published 07/05/2024
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