Community Activities
Cycle Hub
Free Activity with bikes and safety equipment provided. Led bike rides
suitable for 18+ male & female, beginners and anyone who has not cycled for many years welcome.
Every Tuesday 12pm-1.30pm
Meet at: St Francis Centre, 405 Cumberland Street, G5 0SE.
Benefits include:
- Improving physical fitness while reducing social isolation
- Helping participants build routine, confidence, and independence
- Encouraging active travel and long-term lifestyle change
All Abilities Exercise Class
This is a Free activity welcoming both male & females ages 16+, this is an adaptable exercise class making it accessible for everyone different ability needs.
Every Wednesday at 11am – 12pm
Where?
(Winter) Oct – March Meet in St Francis Centre
(Summer) April – September Meet at Glasgow Green.
Benefits include:
- Supporting mobility, strength, and mental wellbeing
- Providing safe, welcoming spaces for people of all abilities
- Reducing stress and improving self-confidence
Weekly Mindfulness Walking Group
Free short, gentle and friendly health walks in your local area led by trained volunteers. Wear flat comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.
every Thursday at 1pm – 2.30pm
Meet at: St Andrews Bridge, Gorbals, G5.
Occasional Day Trips
i.e. Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Willow Tearooms, Riverside Museum, Police Museum, City Chambers, The Burrell Collection and many more.
Dates TBC
Winning for Women / Winning for Men
10 week-long intensive programme for women and men providing a range of therapeutic, leisure and learning opportunities tailored to the specific interests/needs of each group to improve their health, confidence, resilience, and quality of life. Activities included healthy eating, family budgeting, mindfulness and stress management, health and fitness, and complementary therapies. Fitness activities varied and included boxercise, circuit training, yoga, and cycling and each week we incorporated wellbeing-focused initiatives such as confidence building, stress management, aspiration-work and goal-setting, etc.
Our Programmes are open to everyone looking to improve both physical and mental wellbeing!
Dates TBC
Nutrition Group
These workshops help participants gain improved knowledge on food, healthy eating, good kitchen hygiene and food safety, cooking on a budget, label-reading, plus improved cooking skills and confidence, giving them the tools needed to make more positive life-long dietary and lifestyle choices.
Each person received a healthy budget recipe booklet and information leaflets to help them continue cooking healthy at home.
Thursdays 11am -1pm (8 week block programme)
Meet at: St Francis Centre, 405 Cumberland Street, G5 0SE.
After School Cookery Workshop
Easy, healthy, budget friendly cooking/baking workshop in Blackfriars Primary School for children and their parents encouraging fun, healthy and nutritious cooking.
Mondays 3.15pm–4.15pm (8-week block)
Meet at: St Francis Centre, 405 Cumberland Street, G5 0SE.
School Cooking Workshops/ Fruity Fridays
Healthy food packs including ingredients and recipes for kids to make at home with their parents distributed to 2 local primary schools and local ASN school.
8-week programme – dates TBC
Meet at: St Francis Centre, 405 Cumberland Street, G5 0SE.
Benefits include:
- Increasing confidence around food and nutrition
- Creating positive conversations about health at home
- Supporting early intervention and prevention
- Teaching children lifelong healthy eating skills
Yoga
A Yoga group is held weekly. Everyone is welcome and yoga is suitable for all levels of fitness. Just wear comfortable clothing and join in to improve flexibility, strength and learn to relax.
Wednesday 11am-12.30pm and Friday 11am – 12.30pm
St.Francis Centre, 405 Cumberland Street, Gorbals G5 0SE
Stress Busters which runs every Friday at 11am – 1pm, in 4 different venues in the Gorbals, including St Francis Centre, The Barn, Way to Go Youth Cafe and Oatlands Community Centre. This class works on building resilience for a healthier mind, including understanding basic wellbeing concepts, recognising common stress challenges and signs in the body and learning practical coping and self care strategies.
Baby Yoga
Why not try baby yoga, this compliments baby massage. Baby yoga uses gentle stretches and movements for parents to do with their baby. It induces a happy, care-free and lively parent-infant interaction, which develops as the baby grows. It can be seen as an extension of traditional Indian infant massage which uses lots of movements and stretches. It incorporates over clothes massage, breathing techniques, stretching and movements to baby songs, rhymes, and actions sensory play. Many of the movements have been around for centuries and have their roots in traditional Indian culture. There will be handouts with the movements, nursery rhymes and poems before the course commences. Lots of one-to-one attention.
Infant Massage
Why not try infant massage, experience a loving way to bond with your baby. You do not need any experience with massage, I will provide everything you need to begin a new course? There will be handouts with the massage moves, nursery rhymes and poems before the course commences. Lots of one-to-one attention.
