Boost your health for 2024
New Year Boost to encourage exercise
The annual New Year Boost programme aims to help Borough residents kick-start healthy habits at the start of 2024. Activities are aimed at adults (16 years plus) who are currently doing little to no exercise.
Local providers and venues have been approached by the Council’s SportWorks team to create a menu of activities and resources to help more adults discover what’s on offer and local to them, to build healthier habits for 2024.
There are free options, pay-as-you-go, block course bookings and some include exclusive New Year Boost discounts to support all budgets.
Residents can choose from beginner courses and options over three levels, depending on their needs and starting point. The levels begin with ‘Getting started’, helping to get you moving with support or self-led, group activities at more of a leisurely pace, or choose ‘Kick-start’ and ‘Push yourself’ options to get the heart pumping.
January/February is a great time to kick-start healthy habits and sometimes it can be difficult to know where to look or what is on offer, so this scheme provides a one-stop-shop of different activities - showcasing the variety and quality of activity providers and venues in the local area.
The Council’s Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, Councillor Tonia Craig, said: “Our successful annual New Year physical activity programme has been boosting residents after the festive holiday for many years. It’s a great chance to celebrate amazing local providers and venues we have in the Borough, and I thank them all for joining the scheme this year. I am pleased that we are providing inclusive options for residents at all levels and budgets to start 2024 with better health.”