Active Ashford
Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle 
Welcome to the Active Ashford website.
Active Ashford is made up of organisations with health as one of
their key priorities, such as the Primary Care Trust (NHS) and the
school sports partnerships.
The 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 and Strictly Dance
Champion,
Ola Jordan (above picture).
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.
Active Programmes
In 2009-10 Active Ashford was in a position to provide schemes
aimed at getting people more active. Schemes such as Active
Swim which aimed at getting people able to swim through free
lessons and the Active Together rural project which aimed at
attracting people aged 50+ to take part in activities such as
walking in their own village. Other programmes targeted
children and adults with physical and learning disabilities and
young people that may not attend school or on the verge of being
excluded. More information on all these schemes can be found
on this website.
In the first year of the programmes being run, the numbers that
have taken part have been in their thousands and many of those
people have benefited and now live healthier lifestyles.
Ashford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Tannery Lane, Ashford TN23 1PL
Telephone: 01233 330232 Email: activeashford@ashford.gov.uk
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