Xplore | Healthy Lifestyle Programme

How Xplore Works

Xplore is a fun and friendly eight-week programme that provides support for children and young people to live healthier and more active lives. Through interactive games, nutrition workshops, and fun physical activities, families are supported to develop long-term healthy habits together.

Why Choose Xplore

The programme is designed to give lots of handy tips around healthy eating and activity so children, young people and their families can try new things to improve their health and wellbeing within their everyday lives. Our trained facilitators provide accessible tips and advice around nutrition, youth health and physical activity. Help your family eat better, move more, and feel healthier.

“My family is very motivated and we have made a massive change to our lifestyle. We do more family walks and keep more active. We have stopped buying sugars and choose healthier options. We check labels. We cut out so many snacks as we now check if we need it or just fancy it. The team are so amazing and we cannot thank them enough” Nabjit, parent enrolled on Waterfront Leisure Centre (7 – 11 Years)

“She has now realised what food are healthy and not. Talking to someone else has made us realise we needed to change our diet and do more exercise. We have changed a lot of foods we eat e.g. Yoghurt, bread, rice, pasta, milk. She rides a bike home from school most of the days” Parent enrolled on The Plumstead Centre (4 – 6 Years)

Contact us

If you want to Self-Refer to Xplore or would like further information about the services available, please contact us at xplore.greenwich@gll.org

Programme Options

This service offers a range of programmes at a handful of leisure centres, for children and young people depending on their age and needs:

Family (4-11 Years)

Sessions take place at either a Better leisure centre or another community venue over an eight-week period. Programmes usually start in the evenings from 5pm - 6:30pm, however can vary slightly between locations.

Includes nutritional workshops for everyone, fun activities/games for children and facilitated discussions for parent/carers, who are required to attend each session.

Children receive a FREE:

drawstring bag with lots of goodies
certificate of achievement
Greenwich One Card* pre-loaded with £20 credit to spend how they wish at our Better leisure centres in the borough.

* The Greenwich One Card is a free annual membership available to anyone to lives, works or studies in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The membership provides access to a wide range of discounts, money off products and services at participating local businesses, shops and restaurants. More information can be found here

Junior (11-14 Years)

This group programme runs over 8-weeks from 5pm - 6:30pm and includes 30-mins of nutritional workshop and 60-mins in the gym/ studio with a facilitator.

A parent/carer must attend the first and last session to complete paperwork and is encouraged to take part in the gym element.

Young people receive a FREE 1-month membership for Swim for Fitness*, Junior Fitness Classes and/or Junior Gym. If the young people would like to continue with a gym membership after the FREE membership expires, young people are enocuraged to either sign up to one of the following:

Flex Junior membership: This membership offers up to 30% off popular Better activities such as swimming for a nominal monthly fee of £5 (by Direct Debit) plus one free swim a month. Please note: A £12.50 setup fee applies to all Flex memberships. More information can be found here
Greenwich One Card: This card is a free annual membership available to anyone to lives, works or studies in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The membership provides access to a wide range of discounts, money off products and services at participating local businesses, shops and restaurants. More information can be found here
Junior membership: This membership for provides young people (aged 11-17) access to junior gym (one session per day), swimming and junior fitness classes. junior gym sessions, fitness classes and swimming at Better locations in their local area. These junior sessions are for everyone and help kids learn how to use their local gym in a fun, supportive environment, with instructors on hand to offer advice and encouragement. More information can be found here

*Swimmers aged 11-17 should be competent swimmers of a club standard

Teen (15-19)

All programmes are over 8-weeks, with each session lasting 60-minutes consisting of topical discussions while exercising. There are small group programmes from 6:30pm - 7:30pm as one option. Alternatively if these times do not suit, flexible timing options can be discussed.

A parent/carer must attend the first and last session to complete paperwork and is encouraged to join in with other sessions to take part in the gym element also.

Junior Flex membership: This membership offers up to 30% off popular Better activities such as swimming for a nominal monthly fee of £5 (by Direct Debit) plus one free swim a month. Please note: A £12.50 setup fee applies to all Flex memberships. More information can be found here
Greenwich One Card: This card is a free annual membership available to anyone to lives, works or studies in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The membership provides access to a wide range of discounts, money off products and services at participating local businesses, shops and restaurants. More information can be found here
Junior membership: This membership for provides young people (aged 11-17) access to junior gym (one session per day), swimming and junior fitness classes. junior gym sessions, fitness classes and swimming at Better locations in their local area. These junior sessions are for everyone and help kids learn how to use their local gym in a fun, supportive environment, with instructors on hand to offer advice and encouragement. More information can be found here
Student membership: This flexible, no-contract membership provides young people with inclusive access to our gyms, swimming pools and fitness classes. The membership is available to anyone aged 16 and above enrolled in a course requiring 16 or more hours of study per week. To qualify, eligibility of proof is requied. More information can be found here.

*Swimmers aged 11-17 should be competent swimmers of a club standard

Xplore Venues

Sessions take place at the following leisure centres in the borough for young people interested in fitness and gym based exercises:

The Eltham Centre

Sutcliffe Park Sports Centre

Thamesmere Leisure Centre

The Greenwich Centre

The Plumstead Centre

FAQs

What's Included in the Programme?

· Fun, active sessions for children aged 4-19

· Nutrition and health lifestyle tips for the whole family

· A chance to meet other local Greenwich families

Ongoing support after the 8 weeks finish — including:

· FREE Follow-Up maintenance session (4-19)

· FREE 1-month gym membership (11+)

· FREE £20 Greenwich One Card (under 11s) for use in Better leisure centres

Is My Child Eligible?

The programme is aimed at children and young people (4-19 years) who:

Live in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and/or registered with a Royal Borough of Greenwich GP and/ or attend a Royal Borough of Greenwich school, sixth form college or institutes of further education, have a BMI≥ 91st centile (calculate this using the NHS BMI calculator here) and have no complex needs

The service does accept children and young people outside of the eligibility criteria, however this is processed on a case by case basis.

If a child has any medical, physical, psychological, educational or emotional condition then we may need to consult with the appropriate health professional before offering a place on the programme.

We may need to refer the child to another service that is more suitable for their needs. Other services include the Children & Young Person Tier 3 Specialist Weight Management and Complications from Excess Weight (CEW) Clinics for Children.