New Fit Family Club In Yate

Weekly at Yate Leisure Centre, the Active Family Club will meet to encourage families, especially those with overweight children to get fit.

The Active Family Club’s aim is to teach families about healthy lifestyles and ways of getting active and eating healthily. Active Family Club will allow families to try out different sports and fitness activities to encourage them to take these up as part of normal everyday life.

The club was prompted by Yate being listed by South Gloucestershire Council as a priority area it is seeing an increase in obesity rates. In 2008 NHS South Gloucestershire revealed one in four children were obese and there are growing numbers of diabetic and obesity related illnesses in children throughout the area also.

I haven’t noticed a great deal of obese children and families in Yate, I can think of areas that have a greater need for this club but I cant still cant understand what is so hard to understand about eating in moderation and staying active.

I am not saying people need to run marathons and eat a diet of lettuce and carrots but why is there a need for people to have to visit a club to tell them to eat less? Is this not simple common sense or am I missing something?

I think the Active Family Club is a brilliant idea, but not obese families. Active Family Clubs should be a common occurrence, they should be in place to encourage families to get active together all the time and not just implemented when it is too late. What happened to prevention rather than cure?

Again, I want to state that I am not berating the work done by The Active Family Club, I just would like to see it more as a prevention technique. If you would like more information on The Active Family Club, please contact Joanna Steeds on 01454 865857 or email Joanna.steeds@southglos.gov.uk.

What do you think about The Active Family Club? Am I on my own when I think this is too little, too late, should it be education before intervention?