Totally Local Company has launched a competition to promote the key messages of healthy living and wellbeing to primary school children in Stockport. Working in partnership with Life Leisure, pupils are invited to create a [Read More]
A special poem created by the much-loved Mancunian poet Tony Walsh – aka Longfella – is calling for local people to ‘Do Something’ by taking part in the Simplyhealth Great Manchester Run this May. Event [Read More]
A Stockport couple have opened their ‘dream’ yoga and Pilates studio after converting space in an old mill. Heidi Sanderson and Hugh Ayerst from Heaton Moor have invested a ‘six-figure sum’ into creating the Hot [Read More]
Stockport’s older generation is being encouraged to get active as part of a new scheme to help tackle loneliness and ill-health among the town’s ageing community. There are immeasurable mental and physical health benefits to [Read More]
Fitness experts from Life Leisure in Stockport have been recognised for their expertise and dedication to the industry. Life Leisure, a charitable trust that runs 13 leisure services across Stockport and Cumbria and has a [Read More]
A trio of fitness experts from Stockport have reached the final of national competitions to find the best and most innovative trainers in the country. Ruth Lynch, who is a head of health, fitness and [Read More]
A widow who became overweight and unhappy following the death of her husband has hailed the community gym that helped transform her life. Lucy Neild, 69, says staff at Life Leisure’s Avondale centre at Stockport [Read More]
Residents in Stockport are being encouraged to ‘self-medicate’ with exercise thanks to the success of a health intervention scheme. Run by Life Leisure, the PARiS (Physical Activity Referral in Stockport) programme is a joint venture [Read More]
A campaign has been launched by a support group in Stockport to improve treatments and care for people suffering with severe mental health conditions. Mental Health Carers Group Stockport launched its campaign – ‘One Size [Read More]
Over 700 competitors braved the mud to take part in the second year of the Tough Tribe obstacle course race in Stockport. Having moved to a new stomping ground at Woodbank Park, Stockport, the race [Read More]
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