{"id":945472,"date":"2026-05-08T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:21:14","slug":"free-fitness-sessions-in-slough-a-lifeline-for-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945472\/","title":{"rendered":"Free fitness sessions in Slough a &#8216;lifeline&#8217; for residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kamuben Patel, 80, said she had seen a huge difference since she started the sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because I live on my own it helps me to move on and just be strong and do things myself,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I like to do things myself and not be dependent on anybody&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amandeep Managat, from Viva Slough, created the Boost Health programme after becoming concerned about public health in the town and had discussions with local GPs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GPs sent text messages to patients that had certain health conditions such as diabetes and heart conditions encouraging them to attend the free exercise classes when they started &#8211; with 150 people turning up to the first one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has been a real lifeline for some of these residents,&#8221; Amandeep said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sessions later expanded into multiple classes a week and were classed as a social prescription.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amandeep added that the sessions were currently over subscribed, so additional funding was being sough to expand further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kamuben Patel, 80, said she had seen a huge difference since she started the sessions. &#8220;Because I live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[1630,105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-945472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537516923876435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}