Activities for Older Adults

Activities for Older Adults

Why is physical activity important for older adults?

Being physically active has countless benefits to both your body and your mind. The guidelines for the amount of physical activity adults and older adults should be doing is 75 minutes per week of vigorous intensity exercise or 150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise.

Some of the benefits of physical activity include:

  • improved sleep
  • helps maintain healthy weight
  • helps manage stress levels
  • improves quality of life
  • decreased chance of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some cancers

Please look at the activities below to see what is on offer within Charnwood to help you stay physically active.

What do we offer?

Face to face activities are being reintroduced as Covid-19 restrictions and conditions allow. Please click on the activities you're interested above for details of each session.

The online content created during the pandemic will remain available online. Please click the links below to view.

For ideas and support to keep active at home visit Healthy at Home and follow us on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram and YouTube.

The links below may remain useful, although some content may now be out of date, please click through to find out more.

Support for your sports clubs, organisations or businesses during Covid-19 business-organisation-and-club-s

General information and updates from the Council during Covid-19 https://www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/coronavirus

Support for your business please visit www.charnwood.gov.uk/coronavirus_business_support

Support for the most vulnerable in the community, and to help volunteer, www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/cca

Updated: 28/07/2021

  • Charnwood Borough Council
    South Charnwood SSPAN
    Active Together