{"id":572521,"date":"2026-05-08T07:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572521\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:10:07","slug":"free-fitness-sessions-in-slough-a-lifeline-for-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572521\/","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":572522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572521","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=572521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}