Sports and Outdoor Activities
As part of our Healthy Lifestyles Programme we encourage people to try out new sports and outdoor activities and to take up some regular exercise. We have an arragement with the Y-Club in Manchester to take a group each week to use their badminton court, table tennis, gym and swimming pool. It is a professional club with excellent facilities. We run other sporting activities on a rolling programme including crown green bowling, curling, golf and 5-a-side football.
We have run taster days in everything from horse riding and abseiling to canoeing, sailing, mountain biking and sledging. We run outdoor activities residentials which the group plan where they have to work together as a team and support each other to complete challenging activities. We have also had a walking group for many years which has walked every strech of canal, river, country park and hill in the Greater Manchester Area, including walking from Manchester to Sheffield and the 78 miles of the North Pennine Canal Ring.
Exercise improves people's health, and the friendships and team spirit that all these activities foster greatly improves people's motivation to tackle their drug, alcohol and mental health problems. When people are linked into positive recreational activities we find that their drinking decreases, their health improves, their invovlement in crime diminishes and that they resettle much more successfully in the community, ending the cycle of homelessness that many people have been in for years.
Here are a few photos to show you what we get up to!
We have run taster days in everything from horse riding and abseiling to canoeing, sailing, mountain biking and sledging. We run outdoor activities residentials which the group plan where they have to work together as a team and support each other to complete challenging activities. We have also had a walking group for many years which has walked every strech of canal, river, country park and hill in the Greater Manchester Area, including walking from Manchester to Sheffield and the 78 miles of the North Pennine Canal Ring.
Exercise improves people's health, and the friendships and team spirit that all these activities foster greatly improves people's motivation to tackle their drug, alcohol and mental health problems. When people are linked into positive recreational activities we find that their drinking decreases, their health improves, their invovlement in crime diminishes and that they resettle much more successfully in the community, ending the cycle of homelessness that many people have been in for years.
Here are a few photos to show you what we get up to!
