What is ActivLives?
ActivLives is a local independent charity working in Ipswich and across Suffolk to keep people active, connected and involved with their local community through accessible sports and exercise, learning new skills and volunteering opportunities.
ActivHubs
Set up to provide a fun and social way for people to keep fit and healthy, improve strength, balance and co-ordination, reduce stress and make new friends in the process!
ActivIpswich
ActivLives and Ipswich Borough Council, are motivating and inspiring people 45 years and over to increase their physical activity, eat more healthily and become more involved with the community.
ActivGardens
ActivGardens are all about growing! Growing plants. Growing fresh healthy food. Growing yourself… your fitness, your health, your skills, your friends, your community. Get active with ActivGardens!
ActivSuffolk
ActivSuffolk provides local Sport and Falls Prevention sessions out in the rural areas of Suffolk, keeping people aged 60 years and over active, connected, happy, independent and reducing social isolation.
ActivSinging
The Keep On Rockin’ members have achieved a sustainable singing group through weekly member support, fundraising and regular performances.We’ve put together this video to show you what we do, and how we can help you.
Whether it’s improving your balance at one of our hubs, learning about horticulture at one of our gardens, finding your voice in our Keep On Rockin’ singing group, or simply meeting new friends at one of our lunch clubs.
We’re not just a fitness organisation – we’re a community – and we’re here, for you.
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ActivLives is a local charity, which relies on grants, trusts, donations, fundraising activities, sponsorship & commissions to enable us to provide & develop our services across Ipswich & Suffolk.
Everyday Activ Latest News
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Help keep our Bees Buzzing!
Help us rebuild our ActivGardens bee apiary.
If you like eating local – you’ll love our community market
Young people from Stoke High School will be serving a delicious selection of cakes and snacks they have made themselves as part of the community garden’s produce market on Friday 14th September, at the CRESS Pavilion, Halifax Road, Ipswich IP2 8RE, from 10am to 12.30pm.
It’s time put on your dancing shoes with ActivLives at their popular Tea Dances!
Whether it’s been a while or you’re a keen dancer – everyone’s welcome at ActivLives Tea Dance in the centre of Ipswich. Old classics to help get you in the groove, then lots of well earned refreshments for you to enjoy. So whether you are a couple, single or a group of friends, everyone is welcome, put on your glad rags and get ready to rumba.
“Meeting new friends and socialising with them and being able to help some of the others with their activities while enjoying this myself.”
Upcoming Activities
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The People’s Community Garden is an outdoor community resource on a public allotment site, where people of all ages and abilities get together to develop and maintain an inspiring green space. It is a place where you can find your niche and work at your own pace, as part of a friendly and dedicated team. It is a place where you can make friends and learn skills, as well as contribute your ideas, to make it truly a people’s garden.
Falls Prevention – Strength and Balance Classes
The otago exercise programme is a set of leg muscle strengthening and balance retraining exercises designed specifically to prevent falls.
These sessions are ideal if you would like to:
- Stay steady on your feet
- Improve your balance, strength and mobility
- Reduce your risk of falling
- Improve confidence
- Stay independent
- Get out and meet others in a sociable environment
Schedule
- 9.45am – 10.45am (Level 2/3)
- 10.45am – 11.15am (Refreshments)
- 11.15am – 12.15pm (Level 1)
To book your place please call us on 01473 345350.
What are the benefits of Sitting Strong classes?
These sessions are ideal if you would like to:
- Stay steady on your feet
- Improve your balance, strength and mobility
- Reduce your risk of falling
- Improve confidence
- Stay independent
- Get out and meet others in a sociable environment
Schedule
- 11.00am – 12.30pm
To book your place please call us on 01473 345350.
Session was previously held at Chantry Library.
Falls Prevention – Strength and Balance Classes
The otago exercise programme is a set of leg muscle strengthening and balance retraining exercises designed specifically to prevent falls.
These sessions are ideal if you would like to:
- Stay steady on your feet
- Improve your balance, strength and mobility
- Reduce your risk of falling
- Improve confidence
- Stay independent
- Get out and meet others in a sociable environment
Schedule
- 9.45am – 10.45am (Level 2/3)
- 10.45am – 11.15am (Refreshments)
- 11.15am – 12.15pm (Level 1)
To book your place please call us on 01473 345350.
Bap N’ Boccia
- Enjoy a ham or cheese bap while playing a game of boccia and kurling
- Boccia is a Paralympic sport which is accessible to all abilities
- Keep fit and active
- Improve your strength and mobility
- Reduce your risk of falling
- Improve confidence
- Stay independent
- Get out and meet others in a sociable environment
- And most importantly – have a great time!
Schedule
- 1.00pm – 3.00pm
To book your place please call us on 01473 345350.
ActivIpswich is a community–based sports programme. It is a partnership between ActivLives and Ipswich Borough Council and is funded by the National Lottery as part of Sport England’s Community Sport Activation Fund.
Our programmes are particularly targeted at those who are 45 years of age and over. We welcome all new participants. Don’t worry about your playing standard – we are a project that provides for all levels of ability.
The emphasis is very much upon the social as well as the physical benefits that can be gained from getting involved with regular physical activity.
Many of our participants have either a long term health condition and/or a disability (35-40%). We tend to deliver slightly unusual sports in community venues, so please give us a look even you have never thought of yourself as being particularly ‘sporty’ – You might surprise yourself!
Chantry Walled Garden is a heritage walled garden in a public park, with flower borders and vegetable-growing areas, as well as extensive glasshouses as part of our plant nursery. Our base is cosy Nursery Cottage, where there is an accessible courtyard garden with raised beds for wheelchair users. The adjacent workshop has facilities for woodwork and basic construction. In this garden you can learn skills relevant to the horticultural industry as well as enjoy maintaining a garden full of history.
Every Tuesday and Thursday we hold a plant sale, where we sell plants we’ve grown in the garden to help fund the project.
Falls Prevention – Strength and Balance Classes
The otago exercise programme is a set of leg muscle strengthening and balance retraining exercises designed specifically to prevent falls.
These sessions are ideal if you would like to:
- Stay steady on your feet
- Improve your balance, strength and mobility
- Reduce your risk of falling
- Improve confidence
- Stay independent
- Get out and meet others in a sociable environment
Schedule
- 9.30am – 10.30am
- 11.00am – 12 noon
To book your place please call us on 01473 345350.
New Age Kurling
Come join us for a New Age Kurling session at Eye Town Hall!
- Meet new people
- Have fun
- Keep fit
Schedule
- 10:00am – 12noon
- To book your place please call us on 01473 345350.
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