Over 1000 GP's have pledged to join their local parkrun this weekend raising the awareness among healthcare staff and their patients of the benefits of regular physical activity. In June last year parkrun and the Royal College of General Practitioners launched the hugely successful parkrun practice initiative. More than 800 general practices have now signed up to be a ‘parkrun practice’; linking with their local parkrun event to promote the health and wellbeing of patients and staff, and create entire communities centred on wellness. Now on the anniversary of the parkrun practice initiative, the two organisations have teamed up to hold a national GP parkrun pledge day. The aim is to get as m
We would like to update you on the progress being made with the new Cycling programme being developed as part of Let's Get Moving Cambridgeshire - On Your Bike! Towards the end of last year we posted a survey asking for your opinion on whether you would be interested in a programme of led rides. We had a great response with nearly 200 submissions ranging from people that haven't cycled for a long time to people that love cycling and would be interested in helping other people to get into cycling by leading the rides. In response to this we are in the process of arranging a ride leadership course through British Cycling to train volunteers across the county - likely to be early summer due to
