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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.
Step by Step
We run exercise programmes designed to help keep you mobile, active and independent. Specialised exercises can help make it easier to get out of a chair, stay steady on your feet, reduce your risk of falling, and increase your ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
Specialist Hubs
Get out and make new friends, talk about the old days, improve your confidence, and stay independent – all of our hubs make socialising a top priority, as it’s just as important as keeping fit!
Lunch Clubs
Enjoy a healthy homemade hot 2 course meal in a fun and social environment. Get out and make new friends, talk about the old days, improve your confidence, and stay independent.
Current Activity Sessions
Men's Breakfast Hub
Our Men’s Breakfast Hub offers a friendly, safe environment for discussion and advice from qualified staff, volunteers and outside agencies.
ActivSteps
A fun way to keep mobile and active by jiggling and jiving along to popular songs from today and from the golden years. Enjoy the activity sitting or standing, and follow along to the instructors moves.
Better Balance
An exercise programme designed to help keep you mobile, active and independent. Specialised exercises can help make it easier to get out of a chair, stay steady on your feet, as well as increase your ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
BreatheFit
A follow on group for people with a diagnosed lung condition/ breathlessness
ActivFriends
Come and join our friendly group, Friday Friends, a weekly community hub and meet other, local people in a relaxed environment, with tea & biscuits and a fun activity to take part in.
Goldcrest Court
Mondays –
Better Balance
11:00am – 12:30pm & 11:45am-12:45pm
St Mary at Stoke
Tuesdays –
Better Balance
10:30am – 11:30am
Followed by lunch – £5.00 per person
All Hallows Court
Thursdays –
Better Balance
10:30am – 12noon
Walton Community Hall
Tuesdays –
Better Balance
9:30am – 10:30am, 10:45am-11:45am & 12noon-1:00pm
Rushmere St Andrew Village Hall
Tuesdays –
Better Balance
09:30am-10:30am & 11:00am – 12:30pm
Fridays –
Better Balance
10:15am – 11:15am
Leiston Community Centre
Wednesdays –
Better Balance
10:15am – 11:15am
California Social Club
Thursdays –
ActivSteps – mixture of dance steps with some seated exercise
10:00am – 11:00am
Whitehouse Baptist Church Hall
Fridays –
Friday Friends – A friendly community hub for people living with dementia and their carers. Come and join our community hub for a social morning of tea, coffee & biscuits and an activity. Then stay for a two course hot lunch.
10:30am – 2pm
£7.00 per person for morning session & 2 course lunch.
CRESS Pavilion
Thursdays –
Elderflower Community Hub – A friendly community hub for carers. Come and join our hub for a social morning of tea, coffee & biscuits and an activity.
10:30am – 1:30pm
Wednesdays –
Men’s Breakfast Hub – a frinedly support group for men aged 45 and over.
10am-12:30pm
Waldringfield Village Hall
Mondays –
Better Balance
11:45am-12:45pm
Needham Market Bowls Club
Wednesdays –
Better Balance
10:30am-11:30am
Quay Church Woodbridge
Thursdays –
Better Balance
10:00am-11:00am & 11:30am-12:30pm
Castle Hill Community Centre
Thursdays –
ActivSteps – A mixture of dance steps with some seated exercise.
12noon – 1pm
Volunteer with
ActivLives
There are a myriad of opportunities for volunteering with ActivLives.
Meet the Staff
Del Keeble
ActivHubs Project Coordinator
Jemma Prentice
Step by Step Development Co-ordinator
Laura Lopez
Step by Step Co-ordinator
News from ActivHubs
Time to Talk Day 2024
Thursday 1 February 2024 is Time to Talk Day, it's the nations's biggest mental health conversation. Happening every year, it’s a day for friends, families, communities, and workplaces to come together to talk, listen and change lives. Much of ActivLive's activities...
Cancelled – Walton Better Balance Tuesday 9 January
Please note that Better Balance in Walton has been cancelled on Tuesday 9th January We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Happy New Year from ActivLives
Everyone at ActivLives would like to wish you a Happy New Year! We're back up and running for 2024 and it would be lovely to see you at one of our activities. There are loads of different things to choose from so if you wanted to get involved in some sport, improve...
Upcoming ActivHubs Events
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