Local (Buckinghamshire specific) services and resources
“Simply Walk” offer over 70 walks across Buckinghamshire.
Their trained volunteer walk leaders and backmarkers are there to help you walk at your own pace, with no need to worry about being left behind. However, try and attend the level of walk you feel you can do.
All new walkers are welcome whether you are fit and active, haven’t exercised in a long time, or have been advised to join by a doctor.
Commissioned by Buckinghamshire Council and the NHS, Be Healthy Bucks is a free health and wellbeing service to help you make simple changes, to start feeling the benefits of a healthy life today.
You just have to be a Buckinghamshire resident and/or registered with a GP practice in the county.
They can help with weight management, cutting down on alcohol, stopping smoking, Diabetics management and more!
Move Together Buckinghamshire is a free physical activity and movement support service available to residents in eligible areas of Aylesbury, Chesham and Wycombe, who are aged 50+ and living with an eligible long-term health condition.
The programme offers personalised, one-to-one support and guidance over a 12-week period, helping individuals to move more in a way that works for them. This in turn leads to improved mental wellbeing, social connection, and independence.
Bucks Online Directory for Staying Active
This website helps Buckinghamshire residents find activities, groups and services to help them stay active. By entering your postcode, you can find a list of different activities close to where you live or work. It also allows you to search by activity type, opening hours, accessibility needs and age group.
Wycombe Wanderers Foundation Health & Inclusion Activities
Their Health & Inclusion department deliver activities and programmes that encourage healthy habits and effectively tackle a wide range of existing and emerging public health issues, as well as providing inclusive participation opportunities that build and develop social networks.
Their groups include “Walking Football” (including Women’s only sessions), “Strictly No More Falls” and “Bump & Beyond”.
National services and resources
The Joy Marketplace is an online platform designed to connect individuals with local and national non- clinical services. It serves as a directory and referral tool, allowing organisations to list their services and integrate their referral pathways into the system. From the website you search for local exercise ad well-being activities in your area.
3 videos to follow along for anyone with arthritis or musculoskeletal pain.
Find out how to get active whilst living with a health condition today. This organisation’s purpose is to support and encourage you to find ways to be active that can work for you and your health condition.
Accessible Workouts & Ways To Get Moving
These pages deliver everything you need to know about strengthening activity. If you are looking to get stronger your way, there are videos, supporting resources and stories about people living with health conditions.
Exercise guidelines and workouts to help improve your fitness and wellbeing including strengthening, Pilates and Yoga videos.
The website allows you to search for pools near you that have the facilities that are important to you (e.g. women or men only sessions, lane swimming, swim lessons, aqua therapy etc).
Couch to 5K is a simple, free running plan for absolute beginners. It’s perfect if you want to get moving but don’t know where to start.
The plan has you running 3 times a week, with rest days in between and a fresh schedule to follow each week.
By the end, you’ll be running 5K with confidence, no matter your starting fitness level or when you last exercised.
Nuffield Health Joint an Programme
This free-to-access programme is designed to help you self-manage your chronic joint pain and lead a more independent life.
It’s a 6-month programme, which begins with 12 weeks of lifestyle advice and exercise sessions led by a Rehabilitation Specialist. This will equip you with the tools to better manage your pain.
And it works. People who’ve completed the programme have shown improvements in mobility, pain, general fitness levels and overall quality of life.
Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS)
The R.O.S. is the UK’s only national charity dedicated to improving bone health and beating osteoporosis. It provides a wide range of information, support, and services for people living with osteoporosis, their families, and healthcare professionals, as well as funding research.
In addition to the information they provide on bone health, they also have a series of short exercise videos for anyone who wants to build up weight-bearing impact and muscle-strengthening exercise to help with bone strength.
Osteoporosis: How to build up exercise for your bone strength