Barrow Borough Sports Council

This is a project to help improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in Barrow-in-Furness through food and physical activity awareness.

The project incorporates the key food and physical activity messages:

• Eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day
• Doing least thirty minutes of moderate physical activity five times a week for adults and young people doing at least one hour of physical activity on most days.

The project is not a 'diet' and is not about weight loss.  It is about how small changes in your daily routine can make a long term positive impact on your health. We hope it will continue to assist in the cultural shift in attitudes towards physical activity and food and influence long term lifestyle change.

To help you along the way we have produced some fact sheets for you to download!

5ive & 5ive Diary

To help you make those small changes we've produced a 5ive & 5ive Diary! The project diary has been designed to help you incorporate more fruit and vegetables in your diet and 'moderate physical activity' into your daily routine.

The diary allows you to keep a record of how much moderate physical activity you do each day and how many portions of fruit and vegetables you eat each day for 10 weeks.

The diary also has space for you to set goals, monitor progress and make comments about how you are feeling.

Free Nutrition and Lifestyle Training

Need a little help?

Parish Nurse fitness classes

Interested in 5ive and 5ive but don't know were to start?  Why not start with some fun, friendly exercise?

Parish Nurse Ruth McDonald is running a free fitness class every week during term time.  The weekly session includes aerobics to lively and uplifting music.  Ruth is also available to talk about weight loss, diet and healthy living.  And if you ask nicely, she'll give you a 5ive and 5ive Diary and give you any advice you need.  There you go, it fun and it's free.  How easy is that? 

Sessions are every Wednesday at 6 - 7pm at Emmanuel Community Church (opposite Morrison’s Supermarket)  during term time. 

For further information contact Ruth McDonald by email or give her a call on 07796645247. 

Community Health Champions

What can Community Health Champions offer you?

You may want to give up smoking, get fit and improve your health or want advice on healthy eating but don’t know where to start.

Community Health Champions can

• provide you with information
• point you in the right direction for services to support you
• work with you to come up with a plan of action that will help you achieve your health goals, however small they may be.

Community Health Champions work with individuals and groups and have knowledge and experience of the local area.

For further details please download the Health Champions lealfet here or contact

Marie Blackburn
Project Co-ordinator
Tel 01228 512513

Health Trainer

Jennifer Hair is the Health Trainer at Furness Enterprise. She offers free advice and support to anybody who is unemployed and would like to make any lifestyle changes in order to improve their health and well-being. This could include stopping smoking, reducing alcohol intake, improving diet or increasing levels of physical activity.

Some of the opportunities available include:

One to one advice and support
Nutritional and diet advice
Weight management advice and support
Fitness classes
Referrals to other organisations for support and advice on health issues
Signposting to employment support organisations

For further information contact Jennifer by email or give her a call on 841368.

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Stop smoking and win a Free Leisure Centre Pass

Cumbria NHS will help you quit smoking and give you a free three month pass to a local Leisure Centre if you stay smoke free after four weeks.

Call the Stop Smoking Service for support, including nicotine replacement therapy
If you are smoke free after four weeks, you will qualify for a free three month leisure pass to Dalton Leisure Centre or Barrow Park Leisure Centre for up to five sessions per week.  This offer includes swimming, gyms and line dancing

Call the NHS Cumbria Stop Smoking Service on 01900 324222.