{"id":568498,"date":"2026-03-29T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568498\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:16:08","slug":"lithuanian-women-in-peterborough-find-friendship-through-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568498\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian women in Peterborough find friendship through exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luda, 70, spoke to the BBC after the badminton session at the <a href=\"https:\/\/fis.peterborough.gov.uk\/kb5\/peterborough\/directory\/service.page?id=Gfi-x3ne2-A\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gladstone Park Community Centre, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s very nice and I love it; this exercise session is great for us,&#8221; said the grandmother, who moved to the UK 18 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I try and stay active. I want to come every day and have made some friends here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norviltaite, who has lived in the UK for 12 years, said the group was looking at getting funding to continue using the community centre for badminton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s all about getting active. Especially for old people &#8211; it&#8217;s not easy to exercise you know,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sometimes we do walking at Nene Park &#8211; two hours with Nordic walking sticks or go for paddling boat sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;From April, we might have to stop badminton until we can find some funding &#8211; maybe we will ask the council. But we will continue the group with other activities like walks in the Central Park or Nene Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an opportunity for these ladies to socialise, make friends; the ladies bring flowers for each other, celebrate birthdays and family events. So it&#8217;s really nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luda, 70, spoke to the BBC after the badminton session at the Gladstone Park Community Centre, external. &#8220;It&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,407,84],"class_list":["post-568498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}