Fitter, healthier and more confident kids
Do you want your kids to be fitter, healthier and more confident? They can do all this and make new friends when they join the free 10 week health and fitness clubs for 7-13 year olds who are above the ideal weight that we're sponsoring in your area.
Local parents who want to improve their families' health are urged to sign up to the Mind, Exercise, Nutrition... Do it! (MEND) programme, which will be run free of charge by our Community Food and Health Advisors and their local colleagues. This is one of many ways in which Sainsbury's is committed to improving the health of the community.
You and your kids will take part in fun activities and you'll learn about healthy eating, so you can carry on the good work at home and the kids also make friends in the fun exercise session, whilst you get to know one another and have a chance to ask more questions and share learnings. You just need to agree to come along twice a week for ten weeks.
The 2 hour sessions aim to improve children's fitness, physical activity levels, nutrition and self esteem. The focus is on simple and effective techniques, which are designed to help you improve your child's overall diet and activity patterns.
The nutrition activities include label reading, understanding a healthy diet, a Food Fest to try new recipe ideas, a healthionnaire quiz and a healthy eating supermarket store tour. The physical activity element of the programme is managed by the School Sport Partnerships. They train 'Exercise coaches' to run sessions which include activities as varied as dance, martial fitness and circus moves, as well as team games. The venues for these MEND programmes are typically local School Sport Partnerships and Sports Colleges.
Programmes run each school term and waiting lists are available for the following term also. Locations for our next programmes, typically starting May (unless otherwise stated) are as follows:
North: Stockton-on-Tees, Wilmslow, Ossett, Sheffield, Dukinfield, Cheadle Heath, Stockport, Huddersfield, Staveley (Chesterfield)
Central: Lutterworth [starts end April],, Leicester [starts end April], Ansley (Loughborough)
East: Bury St Edmunds, Lincoln
South: Huntingdon [starts end April], Stevenage, Potton (Beds) [starts April], Peterborough, Wantage, Reading, Wandsworth, Twickenham, Hornchurch, Hamble, Aylesford, Herne Bay, Leatherhead
West: Bath, Lydney (Glos), Cardiff, Taunton, Weston-Super-Mare, Whitleigh (Plymouth), Swindon
Northern Ireland: Belfast & Lisburn [both start April]
To find out how to take part, call 0207 231 7225 or visit www.mendprogramme.org to register.
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