Active Ashford

Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

Welcome to the Active Ashford Community Sports Partnership website.

 

The Active Ashford partnership is supported by some of the biggest sporting names in the County who have some form of link with the area such as one of Britain's top athletes, runner Lisa Dobriskey Olympic Gold Medal Winner cyclist Jamie Staff.  Each ambassador has their own web page and on that can be seen an Exclusive interview.

 

Other pages on the site look at County and National Performers who have links to the Borough as well as ways of obtaining funding.

 

One of the major impacts of Active Ashford is to get more people participating in physical exercise, a directory of places to do this can be found as well as to clubs that have achieved the Quality Standard Accreditation eg Clubmark.

 

The Government Recommendation for Healthy Activity

 

An active lifestyle is beneficial for promoting good health and is also a great opportunity for socialising. But activity can be as social or as personal as you choose. Current recommendations suggest that:

 

  • Adults should be participating in a minimum of 30 minutes a day of moderate intensity physical activity.
  • Children should be participating in a minimum of 1 hour per day of moderate intensity physical activity.

 

This can be achieved in small bouts throughout the day, such as 3 sessions of 10 minutes for adults, making it easier to fit into your everyday life.  Any activity that makes you breathe slightly deeper and harder, and feel slightly warmer is 'moderate intensity physical activity'.

 

This could be:

 

  • Digging and gardening work
  • Walking to work or school
  • Stair climbing
  • Playing badminton
  • Kicking the ball around in the street

 

It can be any physical activity you like!

 

Navigating around the website

 

The Active Ashford website is easy to browse and navigate to locate the information required on a range of subjects from club information to the latest news stories on courses and events.

 


Ashford Borough CouncilAshford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Tannery Lane, Ashford TN23 1PL
Telephone: 01233 330232 Email: activeashford@ashford.gov.uk
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