Community team success within Heckington parish
On the 25th November, the North Kesteven Community Team hosted a Tai chi session in Heckington village hall
The reason we picked Heckington was because 66% of the parish population do not achieve the WHO guidelines for activity, which are 150minutes of moderate activity a week (Or 2 x 75minutes of vigorous activity), a whopping 45% of the parish population do complete 30minutes of activity a week!
The aim of the session was to encourage the local parish residents to become more active and offer free health checks to then signpost members of the community to local schemes, walks, service which would benefit their health.
The session was an overwhelming success in which 34 people attended the session, with 8 apologies they could not make the session this time around. 14 completed health checks and took information about the local centres and also discussed the Healthwise scheme. We have also been asked to make this a weekly session after the New Year.
What was amazing to see, is that the older community, were able to attend the session, a lot of which haven’t completed much activity since prior to the national pandemic, one participant even stated this was the first time she has done anything in 5 years, since her 2nd hip operation, and was great to be socialising with people and has given her the confidence to try out more.
A massive thank you to Heckington Parish Council for supplying this space for us, and allowing us to benefit their local community.
Whilst we do offer fantastic service within our centre’s, not everyone if able to travel into our centre’s. So our aim to try branch out and offer our services/sessions to the local community parishes. So people who unable to make in to our centres do not miss out.
If you would like to see if offer similar session within your local community, please feel free to contact Shaun for more information. Email:- shaun.fisher@gll.org