This October and November, across Nuneaton and Bedworth, Everyone Active is encouraging a greater number of over 60s to become physically and mentally active.
Now in its fifth year, Age is Just a Number celebrates the senior demographic by showcasing their fitness stories and proving what can be achieved by staying active into later life.
It launched on Sunday, 5 October, also known as Silver Sunday, the national day dedicated to celebrating older people and runs until Monday, 17 November.
Jubilee Sports Centre, Pingles Leisure Centre, and Bedworth Leisure Centre, run by award-winning operator Everyone Active in partnership with Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council, are encouraging the older generation to visit their local centre and enjoy the wide range of activities on offer.
Age is Just a Number
Everyone Active supports older people to exercise across the country throughout the year, with regular dedicated senior activity sessions already seeing more than 20,000 attendances each month.
To help older people to get active, we have spoken to some of our local senior members and heard just how transformative exercise can be.
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Whether it is for weight loss, recovery from injury, improved mobility, fitness or social reasons, there is so much that exercise can do to improve quality of life.
John Sawyer, 79, plays pickleball three times a week at Jubilee Sports Centre in Nuneaton, alongside a weekly session of walking cricket.
He lives a five-minute bike ride from the centre and is determined to keep active following his recovery from both prostate cancer and artery surgery in recent years…
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