Healthy Eating
The two key factors for having a healthy diet are eating the right amount of food for how active you are and eating a wide range of foods to make sure you're getting a balanced diet.
Food is everywhere and being tempted by less healthy foods is all too easy. But if you want to eat healthier here are some practical tips you can take to make the healthiest choices, whether you're planning a meal, reading food labels or picking up a snack.
Healthy Eating & Weight Management
Gresley Rovers FC - Juniors
Junior Football Club for children aged 7 to 16 with contacts to the main club.
New to Exercise Scheme
The South Derbyshire "New to Exercise" Scheme is a partnership between South Derbyshire District Council, Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust and Greenbank Leisure Centre. To get onto the Scheme you need to be referred by a Health Practitioner at any South Derbyshire Surgeries (this includes your GP, Practice Nurse, Health Visitor, Physiotherapist etc) and for one for the following reasons:- * Risk of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) * Stroke (CVA) * High Blood Pressure * Diabetes (Type 1 & 2) * Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) / Asthma * Osteoarthritis * Osteoporosis * Weight reduction for a Body Mass Index of over 30 * Social / Mental Health / Depression The Scheme lasts 20 sessions over a maximum period of 15 weeks. On your first session you will see a fitness instructor at the start to discuss your physical activity likes and dislikes and jointly agree a realistic and achievable activity plan. At the start, middle and end of the Scheme the changes in your physical activity level, body measurements, confidence, motivation, will be measured. Once you finish the scheme, the fitness instructor will encourage you to maintain the physical activities you were doing throughout the Scheme and a brief report will be submitted to your GP practice to inform them of completion and progress.
Swadlincote Swimming Club
Competitive swimming from the age of four up to open. We compete in a variety of local galas and have good links to county swimming.
Community Cafés
The Old Post Centre
A community café that offers a varied menu to the local community. The café also provides catering for any functions at the Old Post Centre such as study days, corporate meetings and private parties. Recently started a luncheon club.
Farmers Market and Farm Shops
Broomy Farm
Home grown potatoes (Wilja, Red Desiree, Estima) available when sign is up.
Highfields Happy Hens
Free range eggs from a farm set in Etwall, where the hens lead a blissful life roaming free in lush green fields.
Oak Lodge Farm Shop
A small friendly family run business. Suppliers of free range rare breed pork, beef, lamb and chicken. Hand made preserves. Fresh home grown produce. You can even go along and see the animals roaming free and enjoying life.
Park End Farm Kitchen
Jams, conserves & chutneys available seasonally from roadside table.
Redshaws Family Butchers
Locally reared beef, pork and lamb from family farm.
Scaddows Farm
Farm Shop and café, and Pick Your Own. Strawberries, raspberries, gooseberrys and currants. Asparagus from 2008. Farm shop stocks South Derbyshire seasonal veg, Littlover Apiaries Honey, Needwood eggs and Ice Cream, Lubcloud Dairies milk & cream, Coates Meats, Webster’s Blue Stilton, Ramsley Farm pies, Claybrook Mill ceareals and Manor Farm Yoghurt. Damsons & Damson jam in season, & free range hen and duck eggs when the noticeboard is out.
Sealwood Farm
Home-grown herbs and salad crops. Internet ordering for home or work delivery of a wide range of other local products.
Willington Green Delicatessen
(Outside of South Derbyshire district) Home & locally made meals, pies, cakes, desserts & preserves using some local ingredients. Café with light refreshments.
Willow Orchard Farm
Traditional free-range pork and eggs, duck eggs, homemade produce (e.g. pork pies, jams and chutneys) and even the vegetables sold are grown on site.
Healthy Eating / Cookery Courses
Swadlincote Learning Centre
Delivers courses with the Adult Community Education Service related to healthy eating: – Basic Cookery – Healthy Eating – Cooking on a Budget – Basic Skills Cookery Course – Workplace training in Food Hygiene for volunteers and staff – First Certificate in Food Safety and refresher courses – Family Learning Courses
Weight Loss groups
Be Size Wise
This is a free weight management programme led by qualified NHS advisors, in a group setting. Sessions are held at Swadlincote Clinic in the evenings and Newhall 0ld Post Centre on a Tuesday morning. To get onto the Be Size Wise programme you need to be referred via your GP, be over 16 and have a Body Mass Index of over 30, with other associated health conditions. So if you think that’s you, what are waiting for book your GP appointment today! You will then be contacted by a Be Size Wise Advisor directly with details of the scheme and the next session date.
Slimming World
For all Slimming World sessions – we advise you to click this link to take you to their website as local sessions can change quiet frequently and hence you will find the most up to date sessions here.
