Healthy Active Minds
A physical activity referral programme to support inactive adults living with mental health conditions
12 weeks
What is Healthy Active Minds?
Healthy Active Minds is a physical activity referral programme for inactive adults aged 18 years and over living with mild to moderate depression, stress, anxiety or low mood.
1 in 4 people experience a mental health problem at some point in their life and being active can improve mental health and wellbeing in the following ways:
- Raising confidence, improving self-esteem and gaining control
- Improving thinking skills
- Improving self worth and personal control by mastering an activity
- Distracting from more stressful parts of life
- Giving a sense of belonging, having fun and being active as a group
What can I expect?
Healthy Active Minds is a 12-week programme designed to introduce you to and support you to take part in regular physical activity. Once referred to Healthy Active Minds one of our Active Communities instructors will contact you to arrange an initial chat. This will help identify your goals and individual needs. Over the 12-weeks you will be given:
- Guidance to create a personalised physical activity plan, which offers various options including swimming, walking, yoga, and gym workouts.
- The opportunity to participate in Healthy Active Minds classes such as boxing, racquet sports and gym sessions.
- Support to make lifestyle changes and stay motivated.
- Progress reviews to see how you are getting on.
Referrals
This programme is by referral from a Health Professional only.
If you think Healthy Active Minds could help you, please speak to your health professional who can make a referral on your behalf.
Healthy Active Minds FAQs
Help Us Help More People
This programme is operated by our charitable organisation – Active Communities – which delivers wellbeing programmes that support 12,500 people a year in Edinburgh to get active and improve their health.
As a registered charity, Edinburgh Leisure is heavily reliant on external funding and donations to keep delivering programmes such as this one.
To help us keep helping the people of Edinburgh, you can donate via text or our online form.
To text your donation:
Text ACTIVE followed by the amount you would like to donate to 70480.
For example, text ACTIVE5 if you would like to donate £5.
