Schools Partnership
Delivers a 12 week programme in schools that will see a number of interventions offered from the following programmes:
‘Born to Move’, Health & Wellbeing Lessons, Focus Groups, Fit Families, and Mass Participation Events
Let us introduce ourselves
A few words about us
‘Active West Lancs’ is a partnership commissioned by Lancashire County Council to deliver a three year programme to improve health and wellbeing across the borough.
The four partners involved are West Lancashire Borough Council, West Lancs School Sports Partnership, West Lancs CVS Community Food Growing and West Lancs Community Leisure Trust.
We offer programmes of early intervention and prevention activities for physical activity, weight management and obesity prevention.
We target different sections of the community using local facilities and green spaces. Both medical referral and self referral are possible onto specific courses.
A great partnership
What we all do
Community Leisure
Offers physical activity & weight management services based out of four leisure centres across the Borough, including the following programmes:
GP Referral, ‘Drop in’ weekly supervised swim sessions, and free gym/fitness class/swim trials during the year
Community Food Growing Project
Run by West Lancs CVS.
- Supports existing allotment sites and community food growing and helps create new ones.
- Encourages the development of school allotments and getting youngsters involved in understanding where the food comes from.
- Runs events for primary schools to showcase their school allotments.
West Lancs Borough Council
- Co-ordinates the overall project including administration support, publicity and promotion
- Delivers an enhanced ‘Walking Programme’ that covers a wide range of countryside and health walks that are accessible to all
- Co-ordinates GP referral appointments, bookings and reviews
- Actively encourages and develops the use of our Green Gyms within our parks and green spaces
- Promotes and encourages the health and wellbeing via the Active Weight programme