Active Charnwood

The Active Charnwood team sits within the Housing and Wellbeing Directorate in the Communities and Wellbeing department of Charnwood Borough Council.

Active Charnwood are responsible for delivering a wide range of sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing programmes, and activities to a the 189,000 residents that live within the borough.

Specifically, the team leads and delivers services, programmes and activities that enable the residents of Charnwood to be physically and mentally active and to play an active role in their communities, with a particular focus on groups who face the greatest barriers to participation and inequalities.

The place-led approach is utilised to ensure Active Charnwood support; Our children and young people to receive the best start in life, people to stay healthy and well throughout their life, older people to age well in later years and to live longer and healthier life's.

Find out more about the activities we offer and support:

Visit the Active Charnwood website

Would you like to receive personalised support to help you to move more?

Physical activity is safe, even for people living with multiple long term health conditions. Regular physical activity, in combination with standard medical care, has an important role in the management and prevention of many long term health conditions. The benefits of physical activity far outweigh any risks.

This is why you can now self-refer to Active Charnwood for information about the physical activity opportunities available to you in your local area.

Being physically active can be a very hard thing for people to achieve and there are many, wide ranging reasons why that is. We are here to help to try and understand your thoughts, beliefs, barriers and motivations so we can offer the most tailored support. Bear in mind that the majority of physical activity options will involve a cost.

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Our partnerships

Click on the links below to see what opportunities are available:

• Fusion Lifestyle
• Active Together (Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland)
• North & South Charnwood School Sport Partnerships

Active Charnwood work within a network of partners who collaborative to advocate and develop inclusive sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing opportunities for all within the Borough of Charnwood.

This partnership network is representative of the following organisations:

• Leicestershire County Council – Public Health
• Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS and NHS Trusts
• Charnwood Health and Well Being partnership
• Youth Services
• Family Help Service
• Local Parish Councils
• National Centre for Sport Exercise Medicine
• Loughborough University
• Loughborough College
• National Governing Bodies
• Community Sports Clubs
• Voluntary Sector partners/Community groups based at: Altogether Place, Marios Tinetti Centre, Gorse Covert Community Centre, John Storer House, Fearon Hall, Loughborough Wellbeing Centre

Active Charnwood e-newsletter

If you would like to be kept up to date with events and activities that Active Charnwood have to offer then sign up to our e-newsletter using the sign up form below.

Active Charnwood e-newsletter sign up

We will only use your contact details for the above purpose and will not pass your details onto third parties.

You can also sign up for the following news bulletins:

• Latest News (Charnwood Now)
• Recycling and Refuse
• News for council tenants
• Business
• Service disruption
• What’s On
• Community and voluntary sector
• Planning