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Start

Start Active, Stay Active, Eat Well, Be Healthy Start is the FREE weight management programme for children and young people in Kirklees aged 5 to 16. Start combines physical activity and healthy eating to enable children to live a healthier lifestyle.

Contacts

Abi Mackenzie
Culture and Leisure Services
Red Doles Lane
Huddersfield
HD2 1YF
abi.mackenzie@kirklees.gov.uk
Tel: 01484 234096

More information

Start Includes:
• 1 to 1 motivational appointments to support and help your child to engage in a more active and healthy lifestyle.
• Access to regular fun physical activity sessions including Start Holiday Schemes for 8-14 year olds.
• Activities and appointments available across Kirklees.
• Free KAL (Kirklees Active Leisure) card offering subsidised prices and discounts on a range of activities including swimming and teen gym.
• Opportunity to join MEND - Mind, Exercise, Nutrition.... Do it!

MEND offers FREE 10 week programmes for families combining exercise, nutrition and behavioural techniques to help improve lifestyles for ages 2-4, 5-7 and 7-13. The 5-7 and 7-13 programmes are both weight management interventions. The 2-4 programme is a healthy lifestyle intervention which can be accessed by any family with children aged 2-4yrs.

What do I need to do to get started?
Call the Sport and Physical Activity Development Team on 01484 234096 www.kirklees.gov.uk/start and book your first appointment on Start!

Document:FoodWise
FoodWise
All about FoodWise
Document:FoodWise Recipe Book
FoodWise Recipe Book
Cook healthy simple food
Document:Information leaflet
Document:Start Recommendation Form
Start Recommendation Form
Print, complete, and post this form to recommend a child onto the Start Programme

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