Healthy Communities Hastings
Welcome to Healthy Communities Hastings
At Healthy Communities Hastings we partner with local authorities and organisations all over the region to offer a number of activities. We aim to help you and your local community get more active, socialise, and have a great time. Helping to boost your physical and mental wellbeing.
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Our Activities
Are you living with a long term health condition?
Freedom Leisure is proud to be supporting a national campaign called 'We Are Undefeatable' which has been designed to inspire and motivate people with long term health conditions to find little ways to move that work for them through the colder weather. Thankfully, there’s plenty of ways to get moving at a Freedom Leisure centre near you - From chair exercises to swimming, it all counts.
Freedom FLAIR - Talented Athlete Support Scheme
Are you striving to be the next Olympian or Paralympian?
Freedom Leisure can help! We're relaunching our new and improved athlete support scheme called FLAIR - that offers athletes competing at a national level, FREE access to our facilities to support their training.
Applications have now closed.
We view our Hastings centres as 'wellness hubs'
Local communities can access an array of health services to support them in taking greater control of their own health and wellbeing. We provide a Healthy Communities programme that provides people of all ages and abilities the opportunity to move more and be active!
We are committed to tackling health inequalities
Our team of Healthy Community specialists design tailored programmes that meet local population needs across the life-course; removing barriers to participation and engaging everyone regardless of background, gender, age, ethnicity, ability or socio-economic status.
Our services are inclusive, accessible and affordable
We believe in;
- Supporting people to be physically active in whatever way suits them
- Supporting individuals to prevent and manage health conditions
- Providing opportunities for positive experiences to support mental-wellbeing
- Preventing social isolation, enabling local communities to come
What our existing customers say about us
We absolutely love Tumbletime. Jaspa was born at the beginning of lock down and these sessions have done so much good for him..
Rachel
...it’s clear they’re passionate about partnership working and building active communities..
Fresh Visions
The team are friendly, sessions are well organised and relaxed and everyone is encouraged to get involved and have fun..
Vanessa at Optivo
I'd not ever used and gym before and was quite anxious of the idea. These sessions have been great and I won't miss a week if I can help it..
Ross
Frequently Asked Questions
We host a programme of targeted sessions both on and off site. As well as events led by ourselves we also support events of local community partner organisations.
We co-ordinate volunteer and work experience opportunities as well as employability projects that result in people gaining employment with Freedom Leisure in Hastings.
We oversee the introduction, sign-up process and on care of many different targeted referral schemes that support many individuals across our local community.
If you can, please follow our Facebook @activecommhastings. If not, then you can find up to date promotion on the notice boards at Summerfields Leisure Centre.
We mainly deliver our sessions at Summerfields Leisure Centre and Falaise Fitness Centre. Though we do also run sessions off site in other close by community spaces, such as at Four Court Community Centre and on Hastings Beach.
We try to deliver an inclusive programme of activities that has at least one targeted session that is appropriate for you. Whether it's for older people, families, pre-schoolers, disabled people or women only to name a few. We are continually trying to engage with funding opportunities to enrich our offer to you and have something available for everyone.
In some cases, depending on the funding, they may be free. But in most cases, they range from £1 - £4.50 averaging at £3 a session.
We are always looking for opportunities of new partnership working. Whether that means joining forces on an existing project to enrich it or working together to create something new that may be missing. Please contact our Active Communities Officer to discuss your ideas.