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Find your local park

More people than ever are looking to keep fit for free. One way to keep exercising and reduce costs is to find out where you can go for a walk in your local area. There are likely to be several open spaces, playgrounds, nature reserves, sports pitches and parks that you can visit close to your home. One way to find where they are is to find your local park on gov.uk. This tool is designed to point you in the right direction of parks and green spaces on your doorstep. It’s also a great way to embed exercise into your daily routine because exercise doesn’t always mean joining a gym.

Park Run

Parkrun offer free weekly community events in local parks and open spaces nationally. The Saturday morning events are 5km distance and participants are welcome to walk, jog, run or a mixture of all three. These are inclusive community events and nobody finishes last. To find out more please visit www.parkrun.org.uk.

5K Your Way

The ‘5k Your Way, Move Against Cancer’ is a community-based initiative to encourage those living with and beyond cancer, families, friends, and those working in cancer services to walk, jog, wheel, run, cheer or volunteer at a local 5k parkrun event on the last Saturday of every month. To find out more or to find your nearest participating parkrun or local 5KYway visit - https://www.moveagainstcancer.org/5k-your-way/. It's free, you just need to register with parkrun and 5KYW: https://5kyourway.org/register.

Living fully - North Wales Mindfulness and Cancer

Offers the following:

  • Regular online taster sessions for those new to mindfulness to learn what it is all about.
  • Regular online 8 week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for cancer (MBCTCA) courses taught in small groups.
  • Monthly online follow up sessions for those completing the courses.
  • In person follow up day courses to keep mindfulness skills alive.

For more information and details of sessions and courses please visit www.livingfully.org.uk.

Contact: suewilliamsmindfulness@gmail.com or alisonjonesmindfulness@gmail.com.

Telephone: 0784 651 3358.

BCUHB health and wellbeing courses

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board’s Self Care Office offers a range of free health and wellbeing courses for adults who live with long term health conditions and for carers in communities across North Wales. The cancer: Thriving and Surviving course aims to help people who have been affected by cancer to maintain and improve their quality of life through self management.

The health and wellbeing courses can be found on our website, https://bcuhb.nhs.wales/health-advice/health-and-wellbeing-courses. Our newsletter has information about the Self-Management courses we have available Self-Care Team in BCU (cloud.microsoft).

Talk to one of the health coaches to discover what might support you:

Phone: 03000 852280.

E-mail: EPPCymru.BCUHB@wales.nhs.uk.

Finance or employment issues

Macmillan and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board have partnered to develop an information and support service for North Wales. 

Information on and contact details for all of our free support centres - Macmillan Support Centres & Information.

Dewis Cymru - Wellbeing in Wales

If you want information or advice about your wellbeing or want to know how you can help somebody else, Dewis has a search function to find local and national organisations, services and event that can help you.

Dewis has got information that can help you think about what matters to you, and they have also got information about people and services in your area that can help you with the things that matter to you.

Visit the dewis.wales website to find out more.

Mobility and disability organisations

There are specific organisations that can help if you have mobility problems or a disability: