main content Extend Your Activities – Have Fun and Get P*H*I*T for £1!

Bromley’s young people are being encouraged to get active and have fun from just £1 a week! New dance and fitness programmes for 11 – 16 year olds start in May at leisure centres across the Borough.

Sessions include ‘Saturday Dance Mat Fever’ at the Spa (Beckenham). Dancers move their feet to match the footpads against the moving arrows on the projector, in time to the music. Dancers can compete against their friends or just have fun taking part and improving their own scores.

Friday nights are now Friday P*H*I*T Nights at the Pavilion Leisure Centre in Bromley and West Wickham Leisure Centre. P*H*I*T (Physical Healthy Impact Training) includes Box P*H*I*T, Street P*H*I*T, StreetDance and P*H*I*T Cycling – all with friendly instructors.

P*H*I*T Gym offers a number of different ways to keep healthy using state of the art gym equipment including treadmills, rowing machines, bikes, cross-trainers and resistance equipment.

The Sports Centre at Cator Park in Beckenham will be offering ‘Wednesday Streetdance’ with a professional instructor.

So, as well as offering fun and innovative activities, the programmes also provide a safe and friendly environment for young people on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons.

Debbie Glazzard, Connect Manager for Bromley Mytime said, “Young people have been telling us they want more to do on Friday evenings and the weekends when they have more spare time to themselves. Increasingly they are also concerned to keep healthy and these activities are the ideal way to get in shape and have fun.”

All of the Extended Activities are offered as 10 week programmes and cost just £1 per week, thanks to £20,000 funding from Pro-Active South and Sport England who want to see all young people engaged in at least 5 hours physical activity a week. Programmes will run from May – July, with additional programmes planned for September. Further information and how to book can be found by visiting the relevant Leisure Centre, via www.bromleymytime.org.uk  or emailing connect@bromleymytime.org.uk.

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For more information about Extended Activities contact Debbie Glazzard on 020 8323 1706 or email deborah.glazzard@bromleymytime.org.uk  or visit www.bromleymytime.org.uk

Notes

• In July 2007 the Government announced an additional £100 million investment into sport for young people (5 - 19 year olds). Part of this investment will be to create a '5 hour offer' for young people. The offer will be made up of 2 hours high quality curriculum PE and 3 hours of sport beyond the curriculum delivered by a range of partners, which forms part of the new National Public Service Agreement PSA22.
• South London Extended Activities *(SLEA) is managed by Pro–Active South London; the County Sports Partnership responsible for ensuring that residents living in the London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Merton, Sutton, Richmond and Kingston are actively encouraged to participate in sport and physical activity.
• Extended Activity funding is targeted at children, young people and young adults living in these boroughs.
• The SLEA programme is aiming to involve 7,200 people aged 10 – 19 living in these boroughs in a minimum of 10 weeks of consecutive sport and physical activity, with further opportunities for all to continue participation and fulfil their potential. This means that the programme will need to deliver on average, 2,400 young people in sport and activity programmes per school term; approximately 400 in each of the 6 London boroughs making up the sub region. In addition, these young people must attend 60% of the sessions offered over 10 weeks to meet the target of 7,200.
• Pro-Active South London is one of the twelve County Sports Partnerships to have been chosen across the country to pilot the national Extended Activities programme. This pilot period will end in September 2008, with full national roll thereafter. 
• Bromley Mytime are delivering key elements of the programme on behalf of Pro-Active South London from May – July. Further programmes are planned for September – March.