Creative Football are inviting new participants to their latest walking football project. The project is a non-contact all-inclusive session which offers participants who are living with Parkinson’s, recovering from the effect of a stroke or any form of neurological disorders.
The session will cater for anyone who is experiencing mobility issues or other long term health conditions, and each session is focused on a mix of strength and balance exercises followed by a game of walking football.
13th July
10.00 – 12.00 pm
Witton Park Astro Turf Pitches,
Preston Old Road,
Blackburn,
BB2 2TP
As always with their sessions, Creative Football offer a platform for people to connect and discuss issues related to health and wellbeing as they offer an indoor space for hot drinks & snacks.
This session is focused on offering additional support around other successful projects such as Blackburn Rovers Community Trust Rehabilitation Session which runs Monday’s 10.30 – 12.00 at the indoor centre at Blackburn Rovers.
The aim of their latest project is to support the local community helping to improve physical health and quality of life, following on from successful projects up and down the country such as the Northern Lights Projects, Liverpool – to see more of the great work they do visit their website at https://www.nlpd2019.com/
One of the success stories of programmes such as Northern Lights and Mind 2 Muscle is that of Chris Lambert who is living with Parkinson’s disease. After struggling with Parkinson’s Chris reached out to support networks who helped him to build his physical and mental confidence which has led to Chris playing football once again via walking football. After not playing for over 13 years after his diagnosis. Since then, Chris has gone from strength to strength playing walking football weekly and participating in competitions around the country, this has accumulated in Chris recently representing England Parkinson’s walking football at Marine FC.
Chris said
“Finding support networks such as Mind 2 Muscle, Northern lights and Rehabilitation Football with Blackburn Rovers Community Trust has allowed me to not only improve my health and wellbeing but has allowed me to play football again, a game I love and am very passionate about, representing England has been one of the proudest moments of my life and I couldn’t have achieved this without the support of everybody who has helped me on along the way”
Chris Lambert who is an inspiration to many proves what can be achieved when local services/projects work together to help improve lives of others, Creative Football have the experience and expertise to produce tailored sessions to support people of all needs, the programme is being supported/funded by local business and organisations such as Mind 2 Muscle, DES Group, Fairham Mouldings, PRU, re:fresh, Active Lancashire, Football 2 Fitness has also recently teamed with the Walking Football Association (WFA)
To learn more about the programme, please contact Creative Football on 01254 611501
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