\n Jo Weedall, who works at BH Live Active Littledown, has been shortlisted as a Physical Activity Hero finalist in the 2025 ukactive awards.\n<\/p>\n
\n The ukactive awards is one of the UK’s largest awards ceremonies for the fitness and physical activity sector.\n<\/p>\n
\n The awards celebrate both the industry and the people who power it.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Weedall was selected from hundreds of nominations across the country.\n<\/p>\n
\n She was chosen for her dedication to improving lives through physical activity and making the community leisure centre a safe space for all.\n<\/p>\n
\n Littledown stalwart shortlisted for dedication to community fitness (Image: James Bridle) With more than 36 years of leisure experience, Ms Weedall joined Littledown as a lifeguard when the centre first opened in 1989.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her career has spanned many roles, including duty manager, recreation supervisor, and recreation manager.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her work now covers other BH Live Active centres and she works tirelessly with her team to make them safe places to enjoy sport and leisure.\n<\/p>\n
\n One of her responsibilities is making sure her team is trained to high standards to provide a fast response when things don\u2019t go as planned.\n<\/p>\n
\n This includes injuries and responding to unexpected health issues.\n<\/p>\n
\n She ensures regular team drills, intensive training to industry standards and simulations are conducted.\n<\/p>\n
\n Recreation manager recognised as Physical Activity Hero contender (Image: James Bridle) This dedication and hard work save lives.\n<\/p>\n
\n Over her career, she has directly performed more than 10 successful resuscitations and supervised many more.\n<\/p>\n
\n Last year, Ms Weedall was personally commended by the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance for her “rapid” and “outstanding” administration of CPR and defibrillation to a visitor who experienced cardiac arrest at the centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Weedall said: “I\u2019m so pleased to be named a finalist for the Physical Activity Hero category at the ukactive Awards.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This recognition reflects the incredible support I\u2019ve received from colleagues, partners and the community.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Rob Cunningham, director of leisure and business development at BH Live, said: “We are all so thrilled for Jo and are immensely proud of what she has achieved over her career.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This nomination reflects the positive difference Jo has made to people\u2019s lives.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The winner of the Physical Activity Hero award will be announced on Thursday, October 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jo Weedall, who works at BH Live Active Littledown, has been shortlisted as a Physical Activity Hero finalist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-120001","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}