Hereford groups
Our Balanced Lives programmes are an opportunity for you to engage in a range of activities including gentle movement, obtaining basic health advice and learning new life skills. It is also your chance to meet with people of similar age and interests and to get some suggestions to improve overall health and well-being.
Three Programmes are now running in this area. We have been particularly successful in building friendships between participants and creating strong links with the local community in Hereford. One particular group of friends formed as a result of meeting at Balanced Lives.
Hereford programmes
Covid online sessions
We are running online activities only during the current coronavirus restrictions.
Details of the sessions are below:
Wellbeing Zoom Session inc. Q&A – Hereford
1.50pm to 3.00pm – Tuesdays
Chris Hoare
Every Tuesday
Balanced Lives Exercises inc. Tai Chi – Hereford
1.50pm to 3.00pm – Thursdays
Chris Hoare
Every Thursday
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What our group members say
Find our centres on the map
Parish Hall Fairwood Road West Cross Swansea SA3 5JP
Clydach Community Hall, Vardre Rd, Clydach, Swansea SA6 5LP
Community Room, Hazel Court, Swansea SA2 8BP
Side Room, Upper Killay Recreational Hall, Gower Rd, Upper Killay, Swansea SA2 7HQ
Activities Room, West Cross Community Centre, Linden Ave, West Cross, Swansea SA3 5LE
Northolme Community Centre, Belmont, Hereford. HR2 7SP
Brynngwyn Court Community Room, Hereford. HR1 1ER
Belmont Community Centre, Eastholme Avenue, Belmont. Hereford.
Prior Bank Care Home, Cherry Tree Road, Sheffield S11 9AB
Werrington Lodge Care Home, Baron Court, Werrington Meadows, Peterborough PE4 7ZF
Foxwood Community Centre, Acomb, York YO24 3HY
St Luke’s Church Hall & Community Centre, Burton Stone Lane Clifton, York YO30 6DG
Golau Caredig Independent Living, 9th Floor, Gladstone Road, Barry, CA62 7AZ
The Gathering Place, Day Care Centre, 1 Flemingstone Road, St. Athan, Barry CF62 4JH
Murchfield Community Centre, Sunnycroft Lane, Dinas Powys CF64 4QQ
Bourne Programme
Balanced Lives Carers Initiative
More about our Hereford groups
Hereford keeps on moving
Running in a rural suburb of the city of Hereford, these programmes continue on from one of the first programmes set up by Action For Elders back in 2011. Programmes have run consistently on a weekly basis and gone from strength to strength. Donald Macrae, Director of the People’s Health Trust which runs the Health Lottery recently visited the programme and received a warm welcome.
Community spirit
Many of the older people of Hereford were suffering with loneliness, felt cut off from the community and lacked motivation for exercise or social contact. The innovative Balanced Lives Programme has brought people together. It fact, some members of the local Northholme Group now meet up regularly, independently of the Balanced Lives sessions
Falls prevention
The Balanced Lives programme has proven to be invaluable in the prevention of falls for older people. Fall Prevention experts frequently refer patients to our programmes throughout the UK and this has been the case in Hereford.
“The more people can keep moving and keep active – the less chance they’ve got of falling.” Sarah Jones, Falls Care Navigator, Nexus
Success stories
“I am experiencing considerably less pain since taking part in the programme,” says Sheila.
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