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Girls get Active in Wandsworth

Research shows that nationally, teen girls lose interest in sport and physical activity over time and that by age 7, girls are already less active than boys. This disparity only widens as they move from childhood into teenage years. The biggest drop-off occurs during the transition from primary to secondary school, with disruption to friendship… Read More

Wandsworth Joins the Big Platinum Jubilee Lunch

Partnering with the World Heartbeat Music Academy to provide free live music for the occasion across Battersea Park, Wandsworth Common, Tooting Common, Furzedown Recreation Ground and Coronation Gardens.  To celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Enable and Wandsworth Council will be participating in the Big Jubilee Lunch on Sunday the 5th of June. Not only will… Read More

Voluntary and community organisations in Wandsworth can apply for grants of up to £10,000 to develop services for residents 

Grant applications are now open from Social Prescribing Wandsworth, which helps improve people’s health and wellbeing by connecting them to activities and services within their community. Since its launch in November 2019, the scheme has helped more than 6,000 Wandsworth residents find support.  Social prescribing was developed in response to the fact that many people… Read More

Wandsworth To Choose Their Sporting Heroes

Wandsworth Council’s Active Wandsworth Awards is all set to celebrate the dedication and achievements for the local sporting community at the annual Active Wandsworth Awards ceremony on Friday 4th March. The ceremony will reflect on the 2021 sporting year and a glittering list of nominees have been announced. The evening will be hosted by Sky… Read More

The Winter Works in Wandsworth That Improve Your Green Space in Spring and Summer

Every year, in partnership with Wandsworth Council, Enable carries out extensive habitat management activities in Wandsworth, a particularly green and leafy borough which has the most public green space as a percentage of land of all inner London boroughs. In total there are 34 parks and commons, eight allotments and five cemeteries, as well as… Read More

Guys Get Active, the Wandsworth lifestyle programme empowering men to take control of their health

Enable Leisure and Culture are thrilled to announce the return of their successful Guys Get Active course – a free community lifestyle programme designed specifically for men living or working in Wandsworth. The project supports all men, whatever their ability, who are above a healthy weight to make lasting lifestyle changes. Evidence shows us that these changes will improve overall health and wellbeing and reduce the risk of diseases arising from a sedentary lifestyle and poor diet.   Funded by Wandsworth Council, the programme, delivered by… Read More

Enable Leisure and Culture team up across communities in creating new avenue of trees for King George’s Park thanks to generous gift from Japan

Enable Leisure and Culture and Wandsworth Borough Council have collaborated with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association of London Region, and the Sakura Cherry Tree Project in planting an attractive new feature in the form of an avenue of soon-to-be blossoming cherry trees for King George’s Park. The double row of Cherry trees approximately 1.5 metres in height will run from Burr Rd across the Park to the river Wandle near the… Read More

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