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Physical Activity Resources for Families

Regular physical activity is essential for health. Keeping your family active can help prevent:

  • Heart disease & stroke
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Obesity

According to the World Health Organisation being physically active can even reduce risk for certain cancers, including colon & breast cancer. The resources below will help you to keep your family active. Lets get our kids moving!

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Fact File: Children and Sport

children swimming

Children need to be active – experts recommend that kids should get at least one hour of exercise every day. Playing sport regularly is a great way for children to be active. Through sport they can learn new skills, improve their concentration, learn about fair play, develop self discipline and most importantly have fun. Joining [...]

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Ways to Be Active Every Day

Active Kids

To be healthy we need to be active every day. With our busy home, work, school lives it isn’t always easy to get your daily dose of exercise. We’ve put together a few ideas that will help you and your family get active every day without setting foot inside the gym!

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Active Christmas

Healthy Active Children

Christmas is a great time to encourage the whole family to be more active. Most of us have more family time during Christmas, so why not get active with your kids? Getting some exercise will keep your family healthy & will help to reduce stress levels. Check out our suggestions for simple family activities to try this Christmas…

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Ways to be Active – Christmas Presents for Health!

Christmas gift ideas

Why not make the healthy choice this Christmas and choose toys that get your kids moving? It’s important that our kid’s are active every day and having active toys around will encourage them to move more. We’ve had a look at what’s available and put together a few suggestions to help Santa.

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Preventing Knee Injury in Active Children

Knee

The kids are back at school and many of them are returning to their sports clubs to begin training again. Taking part in sport is a great way for kids to be active. They also learn valuable life lessons – discipline, leadership skills, motivation, and team spirit. If your kids play sports regularly, it’s inevitable [...]

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Eight Tips to Get Your Kids Active

Healthy girl on a bicycle

Encouraging children to be active helps them to burn off excess energy and will leave them (and you!) in a better mood! Helping our children to be active is also a vital way to ensure that they lead happy and healthy lives. Regular exercise helps children to avoid illnesses like heart disease, stroke and certain [...]

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Fact File: Why Play is Important

Girl on Swing

Play is essential for kids of all ages. To be technical about it, play contributes to the physical, social, and emotional well-being of children. Active play, when kids run about, climb, play sport and generally horse around together, is the best of all – active play keeps kids active, which is essential for good health. [...]

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