CAN-Move

Join us for the last of our GM Walks Salford Wellbeing Walks is tomorrow, this time around Buile Hill Park! 🌳🌼🪻

Perfect for getting some fresh air, moving your body and boosting your wellbeing.

🗓️ Thursday 28th May
🕜 10:00 - 11:00am
📍 Meet at the front of Buile Hill Mansion

Whether you’re coming along solo or with friends, everyone is welcome and it's FREE!

https://salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/event/wellbeing-walk-buile26/

🌺 TODAY! 🌺

For our fourth walk of the GM Walks series, we'll be taking a relaxed and friendly walk around the beautiful RHS Garden Bridgewater 🌳🌼🪻

Perfect for getting some fresh air, moving your body and boosting your wellbeing.

🗓️ Tuesday 19 May
🕜 12:00 - 12:30pm
📍 Meet at the Welcome Building

Whether you’re coming along solo or with friends, everyone is welcome and it's FREE!

View the full walks schedule 👇
https://salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/whats-on/gm-walking-festival/

Our GM Walks Wellbeing Walks continue! 🚶👣🌳🌺

For our third walk of the series, we'll be taking a relaxed and friendly walk around Worsley Leisure Centre - perfect for getting some fresh air, moving your body and boosting your wellbeing.

🗓️ Monday 18 May
🕜 1:30 - 2:00pm (slow paced walk)
📍 Meet at reception

Whether you’re coming along solo or with friends, everyone is welcome - FREE! Just turn up and enjoy the walk at your own pace 💙

View the full walks schedule 👇
https://salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/whats-on/gm-walking-festival/

Our GM Walks Wellbeing Walks continue! 🚶👣🌳🌺

This time, we'll be taking a relaxed and friendly walk around the beautiful Monton Green - perfect for getting some fresh air, moving your body and boosting your wellbeing.

🗓️ Thursday 14 May
🕜 10:00 - 11:00am
📍 Meet at the bench on Monton Green

Whether you’re coming along solo or with friends, everyone is welcome - FREE! Just turn up and enjoy the walk at your own pace 💙

View the full walks schedule 👇
https://salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/whats-on/gm-walking-festival/

The first of our GM Walks Wellbeing Walks is tomorrow! 🚶👣🌳🌺

Join us for a relaxed and friendly walk around the beautiful Clifton Country Park - perfect for getting some fresh air, moving your body and boosting your wellbeing.

🗓️ Tuesday 5 May
🕜 1:30 - 2:30pm
📍 Meet at the Visitors Centre

Whether you’re coming along solo or with friends, everyone is welcome—just turn up and enjoy the walk at your own pace 💙

View the full walks schedule 👇
https://salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/event/wellbeing-walk-clifton26/

Yesterday for our walk,we met in Monton and headed down the Bridgewater Canal to Worsley Village and back🚶‍♀️‍➡️making a stop off for a ☕️.A personal favourite to lead on,because we are outdoors 🌤️🌷🪵🌳 -bringing extra positive energy and good vibes!

There is plenty of opportunity to go walking in May because the GM Walking Festival is back!A chance to explore the hidden gems of Salford, including over 60 parks and greenspaces 🌳☀️

As part of the festival, Salford Community Leisure are offering a series of free one-off wellbeing walks throughout May.

The walks provide a relaxed, sociable and fun environment and range from 30 minutes to 1 hour long in length. The 30 minute walks will be fully accessible, at a slower, steadier pace.🚶‍♀️👣

All Wellbeing Walks are co-ordinated by Salford Community Leisure and are led by trained volunteers.

View walk schedule 👇
https://salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/whats-on/gm-walking-festival/
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April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. This year the focus is on raising awareness of symptoms, promoting early detection via screening, and funding research to improve survival rates. For more info see here : https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/support-us/bowel-cancer-awareness-month/

and

https://gmcancer.org.uk/communication/17895/

During these awareness months we like to also raise awareness on how exercise and physical activity can be beneficial to anyone who has been diagnosed with the specific cancer type.

Here are just a few examples of the positive effect exercise can have on bowel cancer specific side effects:

-Improves strength around core muscles which can include abdominal muscles, prior to and after surgery safely, which can help to help prevent complications

-Helps to Improve range of movement around abdominal area which can help manage pain

-Management of cancer-related fatigue,which is a common debilitating symptom from surgery/other treatments

-Improve confidence, and mental wellbeing

-Research shows how exercise can also improve clinical outcomes long term:

In June last year, we shared information on the landmark CO21 CHALLENGE trial, which showed how specifically colon cancer patients, who are supported to do regular exercise, are more likely to survive the disease: Half the participants followed in the study over a 3 year period, who had finished surgery and chemotherapy for stage 2 or stage 3 colorectal cancer, were given a 3-year structured exercise program (aiming for ~2.5 hours of moderate-intensity activity per week) supported by regular consultation with a trainer, rather than just the advice the other half of the participants received. It was found that those who took part in the structured exercise group,had a 28% lower risk of cancer recurrence, new primary cancers, and death compared to just advice/ standard health education. See here for more info on this trial and other main findings:https://www.wcrf.org/about-us/news-and-blogs/new-study-shows-benefits-of-physical-activity-for-colon-cancer-survivors/ Published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2025, this high quality study is said to mark a critical shift in helping to move exercise as a 'nice to have' part of cancer care to a 'need to have'. 💪🏻🙌🏻🙏

Nice morning spent once again in the Wellbeing garden at RHS Garden Bridgewater.This area is closed off just for us,for our sessions here .One group member described it as ‘an oasis of calm’ 🙏🌿🌸

Gardening can be a full body work out💪🏻!
We always do lots of functional movements in these sessions- (movements which mimic activities we do in daily life,which can help to maintain muscle mass,which can in turn help with treatment side effects,such as cancer related fatigue.Some of these movements include:

Pushing and pulling-Raking,and using a wheelbarrow engages the shoulders, back, and arms!

Reaching and twisting -Pruning and planting require flexibility and strength!

Squats and Lunges-Essential for planting, weeding, and working close to the ground, which engages legs and core muscles!

Today the 4th February is World Cancer Day 🌍🧡

See here for more info:World Cancer Day

We stand with others to raise awareness of this day and commit to supporting our clients with sessions to promote movement and wellbeing.

Yesterday we had a lovely taster meditation session for CAN-Move clients.This included practicing some mindful movement,a body scan meditation,as well as a loving kindness meditation ❤️,also known as ‘Metta Bhavana’ 🙏 -very appropriate for the month we are in ❤️.Thanks to Tandrima who delivered this session!