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Â鶹Íøactive has launched a virtual programme of activities to continue to support the Â鶹Íø community through the second national lockdown. 

Â鶹Íøactive is a free, weekly recreational sport and fitness programme that runs throughout the academic year and is open to all staff and students at Â鶹Íø.

Emilie Fairnington, Â鶹Íø’s Sport Project Coordinator – Participation, said: “We are over the moon that we are able to continue to support staff and students to stay active, stay connected and look after their wellbeing during the second national lockdown through the launch of the Â鶹Íøactive virtual offer. 

“We wanted to ensure that we provided fun safe activity for everyone within the Â鶹Íø community so have created three strands to the offer to help us achieve this: the Â鶹Íøactive Virtual Timetable, #KeepÂ鶹Íøactive and How to with Â鶹Íøactive."

Read on to find out more about Â鶹Íøactive’s virtual offer.

Â鶹Íøactive Virtual Timetable

We have developed a virtual timetable of recreational sports activities with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Leisure Centre. Similar to the regular weekly timetable, there will be a variety of free, live sessions for all Â鶹Íø students and staff.

You can join all sessions from the comfort of your own home, but we do ask that you are aware of your surroundings and have enough room to safely join in the sessions. We also recommend that you warm-up and stretch before joining a session virtually to prevent injury.

You don't have to sign up to a session before attending as you can access the virtual live sessions via the  or by downloading the Â鶹Íø Leisure app. For the stretching and basic gymnastic conditioning sessions, you can access them .

If you are unsure of what a session is you can read the session descriptions here.  See the Â鶹Íøactive virtual timetable below.

#KeepÂ鶹Íøactive

Through the #KeepÂ鶹Íøactive initiative, that was launched during the first national lockdown, we will be providing Â鶹Íø staff and students with free workout videos that they can do whenever best works for them. From pilates to Zumba to fitness home workouts, there will be something for everyone!

Participants can take a look at #KeepÂ鶹Íøactive content on .

‘How to’ with Â鶹Íøactive

The How to with Â鶹Íøactive initiative will help Â鶹Íø staff and students to develop their skills and enhance their knowledge of a specific activity, and to encourage them to keep active while we are unable to deliver face-to-face sessions.

From how to do a chest pass to how to hold a badminton racket, our Â鶹Íøactive and Active League activator volunteers will be creating online content that you can easily follow.

You can find How to with Â鶹Íøactive content across our social media channels, on ,  and Facebook: Â鶹Íøactive.

Emilie added: "It's been fantastic to see so much positivity surrounding the initiative and we would love to continue to hear what people are doing to look after their wellbeing during lockdown, just tag us in your post and use #KeepÂ鶹Íøactive.

"I would also like to take the opportunity to thank all the Â鶹Íøactive activators, Active League activators, Â鶹Íøactive instructors and Â鶹Íø Leisure for all their hard work on helping to make this virtual offer possible."