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Has given me motivation, maintaining mobility, and improved leg strength.

Improved confidence, not as reliant on stick, and improved fitness.

It gets you out, I’m benefitting from exercising, it gives me motivation, and my fitness has improved.

I’m benefitting therefore I’m determined, and it’s also good meeting people – we’re in it together.

Basically, we wanted to try and get people who were socially isolated to get them involved, get them meeting new people and moving on to other groups to expand on their support networks.

It is great to have a large indoor space to walk together, listen to music and chat, and also have the opportunity to rest when needed.

I’m feeling better and am more active, and people are noticing a difference.

It’s also made a big impact on my mental health and wellbeing.

I never thought I would find anything to replace my beloved hill walking, but I think I may just have found it.

Now, I can even go in to the deep end which I couldn’t when I started.

The exercise has improved my arm strength, and I feel more relaxed when I finish a session.

I love coming to the session, I leave feeling energised and look forward to coming each week, it’s one of my favourite things.

Clive makes it lots of fun and its good getting to know the others who have started coming. 

Neither of us are swimmers but I am more confident in the water, and I can hold myself up rather than falling all over the place.

It makes common sense as we get old, being taught the correct way to get up if we have a fall.

Becoming more stable by doing the exercises helps too and shows that we can get up without assistance. If I hadn’t been shown how to get up then I would previously shouted for Pat to help. Something she finds hard work.

This is inspiring work by Be Well.

The focus on self-management, including how to get off the floor is brilliant.

We need to provide awareness and support to the public on how they can prevent falls and promote good bone health. Well done.

I always slept really well afterwards.

My wife said I should do more stuff like it on a regular basis.

I have a frozen shoulder, painful joints and arthritis. The exercise helped with the pain. It made me more flexible. Mentally, it uplifted me, and I felt better for going. Good chatting with other people, it was an evening out and I looked forward to it.

Swimming helped me to lose inches off my waistline…

and strengthen my core muscles.

We got to know the different instructors who were all very approachable. Each week we built on what we learnt the previous weeks, and sometimes we revisited the basics to ensure that we had the techniques grounded in.

The social side was beneficial as I met other learners and formed a common bond with them.

We would later stop and have a chat when we saw each other out in the community.

Well, as I had never done any formal exercise before, this was a brand-new experience that introduced choices and options I realised I could do at my age. As a result, my fitness and confidence has improved.

Alan’s story is an inspiration to anyone who thinks they are being held back by a long-term condition.

The improvements to my mobility and balance have been terrific.

I now can walk much further and feel my balance has greatly improved and have I have not had any falls since starting the classes. 

From meeting with Cheryl face-to face in her initial consultation, I could see how much of an impact the physical and mental health outcomes from the stroke had had on her life, the sudden changes at home, at work and in her relationship.

My overall wellbeing has come on tremendously, my mental health and confidence in the water and in general is much better. I feel stronger in the sense of balance.

I just wanted to say a massive thank you to you. My son has ADHD and autism and it’s great to see him involved and loving the activities you provide.

“We believe this training is vital to ensure that we are creating leaders of the future who understand how they can influence change in their own communities and create a joined-up approach to health and wellness, while motivating their teams through dynamic and passionate leadership.”

“We want to be able to offer a prehab service to anyone in Greater Manchester who is diagnosed with cancer. We want to be embedded within all cancer pathways and ensure all patients have access to the programme. This will come with the use of the data we are collecting to build an evidence base and a case for further long term, sustainable funding.”

“This is a huge community challenge for areas of Greater Manchester. Helping people to be active and supporting their wellbeing will be key to helping families and individuals to cope throughout this crisis.”

It is vital that staff across the community leisure sector understand much more about the wider community we serve and how we can better play our part in improving health and wellbeing services for everyone across Greater Manchester.

Eight out of ten patients accept referrals.

Since January 2021, 1,130 patients have been referred to Prehab4Cancer in Greater Manchester, with an acceptance rate of 82 per cent. With the pilot scheme in its infancy in Cheshire, 20 patients are currently taking part.

“We believe this training is vital to ensure that we are creating leaders of the future who understand how they can influence change in their own communities and create a joined-up approach to health and wellness, while motivating their teams through dynamic and passionate leadership.”

“Our leadership programme will bolster the knowledge and understanding of our staff to meet the demands of their roles and the changing needs of our communities.”

“We do a lot of strength training to build and optimise muscle as we know that good muscular strength will support function and independence following surgery and treatment.”

“We’ve learned many things during the course of the pandemic, but more than anything else, we’ve learned that we can help people to live their best possible life in increasingly diverse ways in our centres, our streets, our parks and online.”

“That’s what this programme is doing – it’s changing people’s lives forever.”

“Prehab4Cancer is now seen as an exemplar for prehab, and how we do it. We work with colleagues in Northern Ireland, Scotland, the north of England, Canada, Australia, and America, all because of the work we have done in this part of the world. To be able to say we represent Greater Manchester on a UK and international footing is absolutely phenomenal.”

“Working in response to the GM Moving in Action strategy, we have created a new ‘We Move As One’ strategy, which will underpin our current success with greater strategic direction and commercial sustainability.”

If physical activity were a drug, we would refer to it as a miracle cure, due to the great many illnesses it can prevent and help treat.

Making it possible for people across the region to access physical activity opportunities in the neighbourhood.