{"id":769189,"date":"2026-09-13T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769189\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T09:02:10","slug":"successful-free-fitness-event-in-swindon-seeks-funding-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769189\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful free fitness event in Swindon seeks funding to expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who founded a community-based fitness event said it had been so successful that he is bidding for funds to extend it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tim Howe, from Swindon in Wiltshire, started The Longevity Games (TLG) in 2024. It runs four times a year and includes functional exercises for improving everyday mobility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latest games take place on Sunday at Swindon Harriers, with hundreds of participants expected to take part in the free event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve applied for our first bit of funding, and we&#8217;re looking to go into socially deprived areas and put on community training groups run by PTs, which are free of charge,&#8221; Howe said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 52-year-old has started promoting the benefits of the games amongst healthcare providers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m working with GPs, health professionals, social prescribers and pillars of the community, explaining what we&#8217;re doing and the impact it&#8217;s having in the long-term,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So the next stage is to put training groups throughout Swindon that are fully funded and gradually roll them out throughout the town.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who founded a community-based fitness event said it had been so successful that he is bidding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-769189","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\/769189","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=769189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}