Local support

Accrington Stanley Community Trust offer a range of different weekly disability football and multisport for adults, with sessions adapted around ability and support needs.

As an organisation, Activate Body & Mind encourages their clients and their families to make positive choices about their health and wellbeing. This is through providing education, support and knowledge to enable resilience, discipline, and self-empowerment to create a more productive, fulfilled, and active life.

Active Cycles is a community-led initiative that rescues unwanted bikes from landfill and gives them a new lease of life for people across Lancashire. Active Cycles is able to offer free bike hire for those aged 18 and over, for up to one month.

The Weigh Forward programme is aimed at anyone who wishes to lose weight. It provides practical ways to increase physical activity,  offers an awareness of how to read and comprehend a food label and provides realistic food and drink swaps.

Active Sport offer a variety of programmes that help combat inactivity trends and provide an opportunity for young people and adults to engage in sport and leisure in a fun, healthy and inclusive environment.

Active Wellbeing is Rossendale Leisure Trust’s health referral service, supporting people to improve their physical and mental wellbeing through specialist programmes designed around individual health needs. Programmes have been designed to build confidence, improve fitness, and help you create healthy habits that last.

Active West Lancs offers a range of physical activity and wellbeing programmes for residents of all ages and abilities, including health walks, outdoor trails, over-60s FABS classes, yoga, weekly walk and talk, boxing, access to sports pitches, green ‘gyms’ in certain parks.

Age UK Lancashire’s Living Well Support Service is designed to help older people return home safely after a hospital stay, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, and provide urgent support following a significant life event.

The Health Project seeks to actively raise awareness and promote a healthy life style, and increase people’s involvement in healthy activities and improve well-being. Programmes within the project include ‘Healthy Eating Programmes’ and ‘Family Health Days’.

There are 22 allotment sites located throughout Hyndburn with an approximate total of 850 plots.