Movement for Good
What is the Movement for Good Challenge?
Movement for Good is a month-long challenge that aims to inspire people to get active every day. It’s designed to support behaviour change, create healthy habits, and provide motivation to help people introduce regular physical activity into their lives.
Whether you choose to step it out, boogie on the dance floor, dip your toes into the pool or pump some iron – moving is one of the best things you can do to protect your health and wellbeing.
Movement for Good will:
Help you find an activity or activities you love
Help you create healthy habits by moving every day
Provide you with motivation and support to stay active
Raise funds to keep people active and well through our Active Communities programme
Why take on the challenge?
One of the best things we can do for our health and wellbeing is to be active.Physical activity and sport can help us to:
Improve your physical health and mental wellbeing
Maintain your independence for longer
Boost your confidence and build social connections
Learn new skills and have fun!
Being active doesn’t have to mean running a marathon or signing up to a bootcamp – a few small changes can make a huge difference. The key to leading an active lifestyle is finding an activity you love and building it into your routine. That’s where Movement for Good comes in!
Why Edinburgh Leisure have created the challenge
Edinburgh Leisure are launching the Movement for Good Challenge as part of our commitment to keeping people like you active and well, always!
Whilst we all know that moving and physical activity are important for our overall health and wellbeing, putting it into practice can be hard. Our lives have never been more busy – balancing work, family life, household chores and a whole host of other commitments, means exercise often falls to the bottom of our to do list.
If this strikes a chord with you, whether you’re new to physical activity or need a helping hand to get back into the swing of things, then this is the challenge for you. It’s designed to give participants a period of focus where you start to make small consistent changes by being active every day. This is the start of forming healthy habits so that regular activity becomes part of your daily routine, and you build the motivation to stay active because you feel good.
As physical activity experts, Edinburgh Leisure want to support and guide you through the different things you need to consider in order to get more active. Our Movement for Good Challenge pack will help to ensure you have fun, keep motivated and reap the health and wellbeing benefits of becoming more physically active.
Why fundraise?
Edinburgh Leisure is a charity committed to keeping everyone active and well, always.
Each year, our Active Communities programmes uses the power of physical activity and sport to support over 10,000 people in Edinburgh affected by health conditions, disabilities, inequalities and poverty to get active to improve their health, wellbeing and quality of life.
By signing up TODAY our Movement for Good challenge, your fundraising will have a real impact on local people - helping others to experience that feel-good factor that being active brings!
Your generosity will make a huge difference to local lives
- supporting care experienced children to live an active childhood
- enabling people with long term health conditions and disabilities to enjoy a better quality of life
- encouraging older adults to stay active and connected in their later years.