Funded Projects in Westmorland and Furness
Organisation: Age UK Carlisle and Eden, Carlisle
Funding received: £4278 (Phase: 1 December 2022 - 31 March 23)
Project Outline: CARE TO MOVE PROJECT - Through completing Later Life Training’s Care to Move programme, a core of 6 staff will be able to champion Live Longer Better principles in working with frailty and home-based recovery though the Well@Home service and Home Support.
Organisation: Dalton Leisure Centre, Barrow-in-Furness
Funding received: £5066 (Phase: 1 December 2022 - 31 March 23)
Project Outline: REVITALISE - Participants (those with long term health conditions and who are socially excluded) will take part in physical activity sessions that aim to develop aerobic capacity, coordination, flexibility, and confidence, which will be delivered by qualified instructors. Two group classes will run in parallel in separate rooms and each have their own instructor. The classes will run twice a week on Wednesday and Friday afternoons for 24 weeks giving four sessions per week.
Organisation: Move it or Lose it, Eden
Funding received: £9541 (Phase: 1 December 2022 - 31 March 23)
Project Outline: MOVE IT OR LOSE IT IN ASSISTED LIVING SETTINGS – Funding will allow 1 to 1 visits by instructor Pauline Ireland with older adults in their homes in 3 different settings to provide support and empowerment to improve their strength, stamina, skill and suppleness with the intention for them to be able to attend group activities in the scheme. Care staff will also receive training in seated exercise in order for the number and type of group activities to increase and develop their understanding of movement and exercise for the older adults they support.
Organisation: The Hiking Household
Funding received: £3565 (Phase: 2 1st April 2023 - 31 March 24)
Project Outline: WALKING MAPS FOR PRIORITY PLACES - The Hiking Household will provide maps highlighting where short walks are available not only showing a trail but they will also highlighting where all benches are - allowing for regular stops throughout the walk. They will include key points in regard to helping older adults Live Longer Better - physical exercises but also mental exercises too. Once the maps are produced Ramblers Wellbeing walks will be set up for each mapped route. This will help to reduce isolation and encourage older adults to get outside, get moving, feel more confident and hopefully make new friends along the way.
Organisation: St Mary’s Hospice, South Lakeland
1.Funding received: £1000 (Phase: 1 December 2022 - 31 March 23)
Project Outline: ACTIVATE AT THE MEMORY LANE CAFÉ – HP Activities will provide delivery of Activate sessions using stimulating activity kit to patients with dementia and their enablers over a period of 3 months. At the same time, hospice staff will receive training in planning, risk assessing and using the kit in order for physical activity to continue in the ‘café’ sessions as well as being embedded in other hospice Living Well programmes.
2. Funding received: £4724 (Phase: 2 1st April 2023 - 31 March 24); (Phase 3 1st April 2024 - 31 March 2025)
Project Outline: SPORTING MEMORIES – The Compassionate Communities team will work in partnership with Sporting Memories Foundation to deliver additional activities at the hospice and in community settings with older people 65+ in South Cumbria. This project is a pilot project of Sporting Memories activities within a hospice. The project will support and connect frail older sports fans through meaningful reminiscence and physical activities designed to improve mental and physical well-being and to reduce loneliness.
Organisation: Fit4All
Funding received: £5585(Phase: 2 1st April 2023 - 31 March 24)
Project Outline: AQUA MOBILITY IN APPLEBY – Funding will allow the creation of a winter indoor pool Fit4All session at Appleby Pool. The choice of Appleby, as one of the two public indoor pools in Eden, is to put further reach into the Upper Eden Area and is within closer vicinity to Brough. Fit4All instructors have specialist aquafit, water confidence and hydrotherapy qualifications and experience to enable this. Appleby Pool currently have no 65+ specific sessions on their timetable.
Most of the attendees to Fit4All suffer from significant mobility problems and being able to provide the provision of Stick Mobility for attendees will enhance the service significantly. Stick mobility provides visual and kinaesthetic feedback to enhance learning and body awareness. It has been found to loosen hips, increase core strength and improves balance and coordination.
Organisation: Advantage! Barrow Raiders
Funding received: £2424 (Phase: 2 1st April 2023 - 31 March 24)
Project Outline: SMALL GROUP RECONDITIONING IN BARROW – Advantage! deliver three Golden Raiders chair-based exercise classes a week. This funding will expand this initiative to include those over 65s unable to attend Golden Raider classes because they are living in residential care.
Funding received: £4888 (Phase 3 1st April 2024 – 31 March 2025)
Project Outline: Advantage! Golden Raiders Reconditioning – Funding will be used to further expand the Golden Raiders in residential care provisionQualified instructors will go into Elmhurst in Ulverston and St George’s in Barrow, where there is no legal requirement to provide any physical activity to the residents, and deliver small group sessions to those who are most in need of this form of stimulus.
Organisation: Get Active
Funding received: £1586 (Phase: 2 1st April 2023 - 31 March 24)
Project Outline: FITNESS CLASSES AT WARCOP PARISH HALL - A weekly class in Warcop for those 65+ with or at risk of a long term health condition. These classes will work on improving fitness, mobility, balance, co-ordination, strength and be a social place for people to meet. These will run for 13 weeks up to Christmas with the long term aim to keep running into 2024 and beyond.
Funding received: £1,310 (Phase 3 1st April 2024 – 31 March 2025)
Project Outline: Greystoke Get Fit 4 Life - A weekly class in Greystoke Village Hall for those 65+ with or at risk of a long-term health condition. These classes will work on improving fitness,mobility, balance, co-ordination, strength and be a social place for people to meet. Equipment will be purchased to be used by the class and borrowed by participants for use during the week. Attendees will be encouraged to exercise at home by themselves or by joining others online.
Organisation: GLL – Better Kendal and Penrith Leisure Centres
Funding received: £4,037 (Phase 3 1st April 2024 – 31 March 2025)
Project Outline: Age Friendly Community Pickleball, Boccia and New Age Kurling – The Better Health team will deliver inclusive games sessions across Kendal, Penrith & Appleby sites with funded equipment the Healthwise Scheme as well as offering seated games as part of Chatter Matters. The project will include taking some equipment out to support different community groups through outreach as well as enhancing the existing offer for older adults attending the centres.
Organisation: Home Instead
Funding received: £4,037 (Phase 3 1st April 2024 – 31 March 2025)
Project Outline: Age Friendly Community Pickleball, Boccia and New Age Kurling – The Better Health team will deliver inclusive games sessions across Kendal, Penrith & Appleby sites with funded equipment the Healthwise Scheme as well as offering seated games as part of Chatter Matters. The project will include taking some equipment out to support different community groups through outreach as well as enhancing the existing offer for older adults attending the centres.
Organisation: Caroline Arnold Sports Therapy
Funding received: £2,977 (Phase 3 1st April 2024 – 31 March 2025)
Project Outline: A Dose of Wellness - The funding will be used to create a Tai Chi group with a health bias, utilising Caroline’s health background and Tai Chi training to work with St Mary’s’ Staff and their clients to offer Tai Chi sessions and movements that focus on the health benefits. Tai Chi has been shown to benefit a range of health issues from mental health to hypertension, diabetes, arthritis and early dementia.
Organisation: Kendal Judo Club
Funding received: £3,652 (Phase 3 1st April 2024 – 31 March 2025)
Project Outline: Find Your Feet – Safe Falls Project – Different from traditional ‘falls prevention’, this project is proactive training to enable ageing adults to respond and recover well in a situation that might cause them harm or distress otherwise. The sessions teach older adults, and the wider general public, how to keep their balance, fall safely and get up easily using adapted judo techniques. Funding will be used to embed 2 sessions in Kendal and develop a 10 week course approach to the programme which will then be piloted in Penrith.
Organisation: Kepplewray Trust
Funding received: £24,995 (Phase 3 1st April 2024 – 31 March 2025)
Project Outline: Outdoor Adventure Days for the over 65s - Working with groups of 12 individuals recruited by Age UK Kepplewray Trust will provide each cohort with Adventure Activity Days in the southern lake district (3 groups over 6 days). Each group will have access to a range outdoor activities delivered both at the Kepplewray site in Broughton in Furness and at various locations around the area of Coniston and environs. Transport to and from the activity locations will be provided with pick up and return from the Barrow and Dalton areas.