Healthy Lifestyles

These simple balance exercises can be done at home to help improve your health and mobility.

Do not worry if you have not done much exercise for a while, these balance exercises are gentle and easy to follow with limited text and visual aids to follow.

The CSP is the professional, educational and trade union body for the UK’s 64,000 chartered physiotherapists, students and support workers.

Their Youtube channel contains many playlists on targeting different areas of the body for strengthening exercises and contains a specific playlist for older people to help them stay fit and healthy.

We’re a charity based in Boscombe, Bournemouth. We work with others in our community to give everyone access to healthy, nutritious food. We grow and share fruit and veg; we teach others how to grow their own food; we redistribute food surplus from gardens and businesses; and we connect networks of people who store and share homegrown food.

“We Are Undefeatable” is a movement supporting people with a range of long term health conditions, developed by 15 leading health and social care charities and backed by expertise, insight and significant National Lottery funding from Sport England. Our purpose is to support and encourage finding ways to be active that work with each person’s conditions, not against them.

Overeaters Anonymous is a Fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. The OA Programme is based on the twelve step recovery programme of Alcoholics Anonymous. In OA we admit that we are powerless over food and cannot manage our eating behaviours alone. In OA we find others who can help us to find a saner and more beneficial way to deal with our eating problems and our living problems.

We are an online library of accessible health information with simple words, clear pictures and films.

Healthy changes start with little changes. Whether you want to lose weight, get active or quit smoking, Better Health is here with lots of free tools and support. You can also find simple ways to lift your mood with Every Mind Matters.

There has never been a better time to kickstart your health. Let’s do this!

Time out just for you, with restorative yoga and breath awareness.

Gentle stretches, breath awareness techniques, guided medication and relaxation

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The Wave Project offers surf therapy to young people between 8 and 18 years old. Young people are paired with volunteers (14 years and over) at 2 hour surf sessions that are directed by qualified surf coaches.

A behaviour change service to support people across Dorset to make lifestyle changes for the benefit of their long term health and wellbeing. Weight Management – Physical Activity – Smoking – Alcohol Reduction. Fully funded by Public Health with a freephone number to speak to an advisor or self-refer.

Homechoir is a digital choir and community, now approaching its third year of singing together online. Homechoir is free to all with no formal membership. Our MD, Ben, was awarded a BEM for his work on Homechoir in the 2021, and is currently a finalist for the Francesca Hanley Inspiration Award, as part of the Music and Drama Education Awards 2022.

Times for the weekly live broadcasts are:
– 2pm Mon – Songs from the international folk music repertoire
– 2pm Wed – Classical and traditional music
– 2pm Fri – “Fun Friday”: a rolling programme of fun and comedic songs
– 11am Sun – “Sacred Sing”: non-denominational, music from international spiritual traditions