Ideas and projects are continuously evolving and progressing at GM Active. View our latest news stories below to find out how we are moving as one and contributing towards building the healthy, happy and prosperous Greater Manchester we all aspire to.
Is the health, wellbeing and fitness industry suffering from an identity crisis? With many people thinking ‘gyms aren’t for people like me’, have we unintentionally polarised ourselves?
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Stockport-based Life Leisure is building on its Active Hospital work to help patients move more, feel better and take their next step into community wellbeing.
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Experience, education and data garnered by the pioneering Prehab4Cancer (P4C) programme in Greater Manchester has helped to shape national guidelines on cancer care adopted by the NHS and Macmillan Cancer Support.
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People taking part in a postural stability course do so for a variety of reasons and cover a large age spectrum, from people aged in their mid-50s to some clients aged 80 and above.
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It’s fast approaching 12 months since our Head of Business Operations, Jon Keating, underwent a hip replacement operation. The op took place in December 2024 and since then Jon’s been chronicling his (often painful) progress in his quest to attain full fitness having declared himself his very own case study. In this fourth and final blog, Jon further reflects on what more a sector that specialises in physical activity can do to help people prepare for surgery, and what people can do to help themselves – if they’re willing to!
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The roll out of GLP and GLP-1 drugs – often referred to as fat jabs or fat pills – is focusing the minds of exercise professionals the length and breadth of the UK.
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GM Active was formed to harness the power of collaboration. Our work with our member organisations, together with other public bodies and agencies, covers a broad spectrum of health and wellbeing activity.
This ambitious project involving all local authority leisure operators across Greater Manchester is aiming to change how local leisure centres, swimming pools, fitness facilities and services are perceived and used, putting a greater emphasis on health and wellbeing instead of being purely focused on fitness.
Read the storyPrehab4Cancer is the first UK integrated care service delivered prehabilitation and recovery programme for cancer patients, via a partnership between the GM Cancer alliance and GM Active.
Read the storyOur Skills and Training Academy has been developed to give our collective workforce the skills to support and meet the needs of their customers, enabling a transformation in the culture, knowledge and behaviours of staff to address the challenges of inactivity in the region.
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