Leisure Charities That specialise in Exercise and fitness

The NMC is the independent regulator for nurses and midwives in the UK. Our primary purpose is to protect patients and the public through effective and proportionate regulation of nurses and midwives. We set and promote standards of education and practice, maintain a register of those who meet these standards, and take action when a nurse's or midwife's fitness to practise is called into question.

London Marathon Foundation, the operating name of The London Marathon Charitable Trust, aims to inspire physical activity. It does so by awarding grants to help make available facilities and opportunities and by direct delivery to help the least active children, young people and adults from underserved communities get active.

The provision of affordable facilities and activities for everyone in the interest of social welfare, provided to the public at large, to preserve good health, well being and stimulation through community participation in sports, recreation, fitness, health, education, performing arts, galleries, museums, theatres, libraries, community halls, parks and leisure centres

Provider of supported accommodation, health and fitness facilities and services, community facilities and work with children and young people.

The charity will provide sport and leisure activities, and promote health and fitness.

The provision of sports and leisure facilities for the communities of Kirklees and surrounding neighbourhoods. This comprises swimming (including provision of an extensive lessons programme), fitness suites, keep fit classes, a wide range of sports hall activities, indoor/outdoor tennis, outdoor activities (including football, hockey, etc.), indoor climbing, indoor bowls and track & field events.

Operation of sports facilities, development of sport in the community and assisting with the delivery of sport as part of the school curriculum. Also promoting the value of sport & physical activity in addressing the wider agendas of health improvement, lifelong learning & community well-being.Operates Library services.

The YMCA works to enable young people to grow to their full potential by participating in a supportive and inclusive community through its housing, youth work, health and fitness and other programmes.The main group who benefit are those in the age range 8 to 28 through a variety ofprogrammes from short duration specialist interventions to supported housing offered over a number of years.

To raise awareness that the risk of cancer is reduced by healthy food and nutrition, physical activity and weight management.To fund cutting-edge research on how the foods we eat, the amount of physical activity we do and our body weight impact our cancer risk so that our diet and health recommendations for reducing the risk of cancer are based on current science.

Operating a range of sports and leisure facilities across Stockport and elsewhere, from small community recreation centres to large multi use state of the art leisure centres. We currently manage a number of swimming pools, sports halls, and sports & fitness facilities including a large multi-use football, racquet sport and fitness training facility.

Activities includes programmes in the following areas; schools, disability, amateur sport, health, social inclusion, women and girls and volunteer programmes. Programmes, consist of three core activities - education, suitable physical activity and social inclusion.

1) The preservation and protection of good health and the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation through sport and physical fitness.2) To advance in life and relieve needs of young people3) To relieve the needs of people with disabilities as the trustees shall determine.

THE COLLEGE IS THE PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH BODY FOR OPTOMETRY IN THE UK, PROMOTING OPTOMETRY TO KEY UK STAKEHOLDERS AND LOBBYING LEGISLATORS.WE FUND UNIVERSITY-BASED RESEARCH; DEVELOP GUIDANCE FOR PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT;PUBLISH A LEARNED JOURNAL; ARE THE SOLE UK REGULATOR APPROVED BODY TO ASSESS FITNESS TO PRACTICE IN THE UK;HOUSE AN OPTICAL MUSEUM AND OPTICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY.

Lincoln YMCA is a Christian charity seeking to serve the community through its work on housing, education,youth work,community work, health and fitness, international work and recreational programmes

Fylde Coast YMCA is an inclusive organisation providing quality services to the local community, which stimulates and challenges people, especially the young - empowering them to develop in mind, body and spirit.We develop a range of quality services for the local community with emphasis on Housing, Physical Activity, Outdoor Education and Young People

The YMCA's vision is of an inclusive Christian Movement, transforming communities, so that all young people truely belong contribute and thrive. We fulfill this vision through supported housing for homeless young people, family support & childcare services in areas of deprivation, physical activity and healthy living services which promote well being, and community learning activities.

Street League use sport and physical activity to tackle youth unemployment. We do this by working with young people who live in the most disadvantaged areas of the UK, and engage them in structured football, fitness or dance fitness and education programmes with a view to getting participants into work, mainstream education or training.

To provide a schools football programme which has a lasting contribution to the wellbeing of young people through their engagement in physical activity. To deliver opportunities to young people in partnership with other organisations to improve their conditions of life. To create and develop strategic partnerships locally, regionally and nationally in areas of health, education and social justice.

Harlow Leisurezone, the new centre with both wet & dry facilities opened on the 23rd June 2010 at the Harlow College Site.Facilities include Swimming & Learner pools, Fitness Gym & Studios, Sports Hall, Squash Courts Trampolining Park, Climbing, all day nursery & catering facilities.

The purposes of the Institute as set out in its Charter are:(a) to promote and advance public health by encouraging active participation in sport or other healthy recreation for the public benefit; and(b) to promote for the public benefit the safety of facilities and services provided for active participation in sport or healthy recreation;

Working in the North West of England, the organisations objects are to promote community participation in healthy recreation for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Area. The aim is to increase and sustain participation in and widen access to sport and physical activity in the Area, particularly in disadvantaged communities and strategic groups where being sedentary is the dominant behaviour.

Care for life threatened/limited children and young people and their families, through providing:* Respite care: day care and overnight stays* Palliative care at end of life* Bereavement suite and support* Community and hospice at home services: Physio, Music therapy, Toy loan, Special yoga * Family Support: Siblings, Counselling, Family Suite and Training to equip parents

The objects for which the Company is established ("Objects") are to advance for the public benefit physical education, by providing higher education sport pathway competitions and experiences for students within Universities and Colleges, and promoting the lifelong benefits of physical activity for all.

The trust has entered into an agreement with the Council whereby the trust undertakes to deliver recreational and other leisure activities at various leisure facilities which are owned and leased by the Council as a step forward in creating a more active and healthy Torfaen with sport/physical activity at the heart of our communities.

The YMCA has a holistic range of services which can embrace all of the diverse aspects of our community.Housing and Support Training and Employment VolunteeringSports, Health, Fitness and ActivityYouth ServicesAffordable Food Provision Community Facilities Family Relationships