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The Community Council of Shropshire

(Company limited by guarantee (4652487) and Registered Charity No. 1096779)

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Community Council of Shropshire
The Creative Quarter
Shrewsbury Business Park
Shrewsbury
SY2 6LG

Activities And Health

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  • Extend Exercises
  • Diabetes Awareness Days
  • Healthy Hearts are available for all
  • Living with Arthritis

See below for details of forthcoming events for the above activities

Extend Exercises

'Extend' is a registered charity that provides recreational movement to music for men and women over-sixty and for less able people of all ages. Their mission is to promote health, increase mobility and independence, improve strength, co-ordination and balance and to counteract loneliness and isolation, thereby enhancing the Quality of Life

The Preventative Services Development Team has promoted Extend exercise in Shropshire for the past five years. Their Extend Teacher training courses have led to a number of Extend exercise classes around the county. The team has also enabled a number of older peoples social groups and clubs to start their own Extend classes with the help of a Care Development grant.

If you would like to find out more about becoming an extend teacher, or to find a class in your area, contact Preventative Services Development:

  • Daphne Simmons - 01743 342161

 

Some Extend Classes are listed below. There is a small charge payable to the teacher at each class:

Monday

10.00am-11.00am: Westbury Village Hall

10.00am-11.00am: The Welfare Hall, Shifnal

10.30am-11.30am: Whitefriars Community Rooms, Ludlow

11.30am-12.30pm: Medical Centre,  Pontesbury

11.45am-12.45pm: Methodist Church Hall, Albrighton

3.00pm-4.00pm: Ditton Priors Village Hall

4.00pm-5.00pm: Fairfields, Gobowen.

Tuesday

10.00am-11.00am: Grange Road Community Room, Bishops Castle

10:15am-11:15am: Beacon Community Centre, Market Drayton

10.30am-11.30am: Sheltered Housing, Wilkinson Avenue, Broseley

1.00pm - 2.00pm: Greenfields Community Rooms, Bridgnorth (not the 2nd Tuesday of the month)

2.00pm-3.00pm: Parish Pump, Duddleston Heath

Wednesday:

10.00am-11.00am: Doddington Heights Community Centre

10.30am-11.30am: Beez Neez, Market Drayton (alternate weeks at Normanbrook Court & Elizabeth Court)

2.00pm-3.00pm: Clifton Court, Ludlow

3.00pm-4.00pm: Community Rooms, Upper Fee, Ludlow

Thursday:

9.30am-10.30am: Village Hall, West Felton

10.00am-11.00am: The Lantern, Meadow Farm Drive, Shrewsbury

10:30am-11:30am: Marton Village Hall

10:30am-11:30am: Ruyton XI Towns Memorial Hall

11:15am-12:15pm: Ellesmere Comrades Club

11:30am-12:30pm: Carreg Llwyd Church, Oswestry

2.00pm-3.00pm: Baschurch Village Hall

2:15pm-3:15pm: Wem Methodist Church

4.00pm-5.00pm: Dorrington Village Hall

Friday:

10:30am-11.30am: Bayston Hill Methodist Church Hall

10.30am-11.30am: Llwynfields Sheltered Housing, Oswestry

1.30pm-2.30pm: Shawbury Village Hall

2.00pm-3:00pm: Radbrook Community Centre, Shrewsbury

Diabetes Awareness Days

The Preventative Services Development Team work in partnership with local GP practices across the county to target people with diabetes and their carers.

Diabetes awareness events are designed to raise awareness, and give clear information and advice to people. They include presentations from a food therapists, Diabetes UK and health care professionals and highlight the importance of exercise with a short demonstration of 'Extend'.

As a follow up to these days we offer support for people who would like to start their own self-help group for diabetics, or set up an exercise class in their local area.

'Healthy Hearts are available for all'

The morning session is for people to receive advice and information that will help them to maintain and improve a healthy heart. The emphasis is on 'fun' and the sessions include a cooking demonstration to show that healthy food can be easy to prepare, economical and most of important to all tasty. There will also be information and advice from a nutritional therapist.

 

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