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Join the Movement

Join The Movement

Hartlepool’s Join the Movement network is a collaboration between local & regional partners who share a common interest in addressing health inequalities and improving wider social outcomes – by improving physical & mental health through getting more people moving, more often. The network meets every two or so months. The gap in Hartlepool’s partnership infrastructure focused on improving physical activity motivated the formation of Join The Movement.

The network is relatively young, having held a handful of meetings so far, and agreed upon three main priorities:

Reducing obesity amongst children and adults
- Initial work is based on Hartlepool United Community Sports Foundation’s Fit Families developed by Keith Nobbs.
- We are also keen to utilise the expertise of the newly formed Hartlepool Food Partnership and support the long term plan to make available Healthy, Affordable and Sustainable food.

Improving long term health conditions
- Initial work is developing social prescribing pathways – to improve pathways for referrals to physical activity opportunities from entry level up to Hartlepool sport clubs – to support individuals to introduce more movement into their daily activities & general lifestyle.
- Additional work includes facilitating Long Term Health Conditions training, networking and support which can include CPD to capacity build local organisations.

Improving Mental Health & Wellbeing
- Initial work is establishing the Walk into Wellness Network – to support and develop organisations offering walking opportunities to Hartlepool residents. The network also aims to improve communications about walking opportunities & increase access to regular walking for Hartlepool residents, including people working in statutory and voluntary sector organisations.

The group is open to all and meets regularly.

Key partners are The PFC Trust / Hartlepool Sport, Hartlepower, Tees Valley Sport, StreetGames, Sported, Hartlepool United Community Sports Foundation, Hartlepool Borough Council, Sustrans, The NHS Waiting Well Team, the 3 Hartlepool Primary Care Networks and clubs and other providers.

Meeting Minutes: coming soon

Date of Next Meeting: TBC

Key Projects

Activities on Prescription

Want to sit less and move more? Activities On Prescription was created to help you do just that! Whether you have a long-term illness, recovering from surgery or just want to increase your activity levels, the Activities On Prescription booklet is a free, resource packed full of ideas and suggestions as to how you can maximise the movement you are already doing.

More information here

Healthy Movers

Healthy Movers aims to give staff from schools and day care settings the skills and tools to help them develop children’s wellbeing and physical development.

"If we get the first years of a child's life right then we prevent a lot of other challenges from coming along later. "

Move Mania

The Move Mania Challenge is a five day challenge that encourages families to walk, cycle, scoot or even rollerblade to or from school while completing fun, activities and games that are designed to get families talking and feet moving.

Walk into Wellness

Walk into Wellness is a partnership comprised of the best walking providers from the community, voluntary, health and statutory sectors across Hartlepool. Their aim is to encourage more people to walk and experience the benefits that being outdoors and walking can have on physical and mental health issues.

More information here

Fit Families

This project is being created by our friends at Hartlepool United Community Sports Foundation.

Wellbeing

& Mental Health

This is a priority area for Hartlepool Sport and The PFC Trust, especially after 2 years of Covid-19.

More information here

Hartlepool Re-Loved

Do you need some re-loved sports equipment or clothing?

Visit the Re-loved clothing page for more information.

Funding Opportunities

Visit the Funding page for more information.

Long Term Health Coffee & Chats

This is a bi-monthly group that brings together local people with Long Term Health Conditions and professionals to discuss and to break down some barriers to living a physically active life.

Food Partnership

The Hartlepool Food Partnership brings together representatives from the community, food businesses, the voluntary sector, educational institutions and the local authority – who care about the quality, affordability and sustainability of food in their town. By working in partnership with the wider community, a long-term plan is created to make available healthy, affordable and sustainable food.

Our parent charity, The PFC Trust is a key funder and active partner of the Food Partnership and we see this as a key part of our whole-system approach to Health Wellbeing.

Visit the dedicated website here

Healthy Eating

"We are what we eat" is a well known phrase, and we do believe in it.

Food is the fuel we need to engage in a physically active lifestyle.

This forms a core part of the Food Partnership work, and also that of Join The Movement.

We are working with clubs, early years providers, schools and other organisations to support nutritious eating habits that last a lifetime.

Urban Play

Running parallel with our Urban Sport program, Urban Play brings the fun back into our communities.

Stuck in the mud, the floor is lava, nature trails and bug hunts all form part of Urban Play.