Ashfield Council family project nominated for award

The project took home an accolade after being shortlisted in the Project/Initiative/Innovation of the Year category.

Feel Good Families is a new initiative developed by the council, along

with other members of the Ashfield Health and Wellbeing Partnership, which is made up of Ashfield Voluntary Action, Everyone Active, Nottinghamshire County Council, Everyone Health, Active Notts, Sutton Academy and Mid Notts Integrated Care Partnership.

Feel Good Families aim to engage inactive people, encouraging families to play, smile and be active together as a family in their local community.

It started last July, targeting families with children aged five and over with the aim of providing free or low-cost activities, in Ashfield.

Since it launched more than 400 families have signed up to the scheme, with 1,000 residents benefiting from the free activities which have been running over the past eight months.

The free events have included five themed trails around the district’s parks, healthy cooking lessons, craft workshops, dance sessions, and free activities at the district’s leisure centres such as ice skating, swimming and roller skating.

Coun Keir Barsby, portfolio holder for health and leisure at the council,

said; “It is fantastic that the hard work and dedication of the officers at Ashfield Council and their colleagues from the Ashfield Health and Wellbeing Partnership, have been recognised by Active Notts.

“Feel Good Families is a wonderful initiative that we are very proud of and the fact that more than 400 families have signed up to the project just goes to show how valuable it is.”

“Feel Good Families provides the opportunity for our residents to engage in free activities that they might not have had the chance to try before, due to cost.

“As a council we are committed to ensuring that all of our residents have the chance to lead a healthy and active lifestyle, and Feel Good Families is just one of the ways which we are achieving this aim.”