Thunder Community Trust is delighted to announce that they have successfully been granted £9,006 from County Durham & Darlington Primary Care Trusts Charitable Funds for their ‘Tackling Heart Health' project.
The programme is designed to offer educational and physical activity opportunities focusing on heart health and its benefits to community groups in areas of high health deprivation across County Durham & Darlington.
The project will do this through activities such as Active Sessions & Cardiovascular Activity within local communities, as well as Assembly Programmes.
Groups taking part will receive three weeks of educational sessions and assemblies about healthy hearts followed by high quality physical activity delivered by both Community Coaches and professional players, thus using the professional sportsmen as role models and positive influences on healthy heart promotion and lifestyle choice.
Chris Hood, Director of Community Programmes for Thunder Community Trust commented:
"We are delighted to receive such support from County Durham & Darlington Primary Care Trusts Charitable Funds and their trustees for our project."
"We are incredibly grateful to all those groups that support us, and this money will help us change a lot of lives across County Durham & Darlington."
"We will use the funding to create tailor-made sessions focusing on risk factors associated with heart health, as well as create a bond between our charitable trust, Gateshead Thunder players and the programmes' participants."
During these sessions, participants will be educated in:
CLINICAL RISK FACTORS such as high blood pressure, raised blood cholesterol, diabetes and high waist measurements.
LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS such as Smoking, eating an unhealthy diet and being physically inactive.
Each participant will also be given a "Healthy Hearts" Passport, which they will get stamped at each session and in turn will receive free tickets for them for a Gateshead Thunder fixture. The passport will contain questions about healthy hearts and lifestyles, good nutrition, the effects of smoking and the benefits of exercise to children, which they will require to fill in and return before they receive their "stamp".
For more on what Thunder Community Trust do across the North East of England, click HERE
