Our free training and resources

The Active Medicine Programme: GBA's programme of support, resources and training for Healthcare Professionals.

Its aim is to improve knowledge, skills and confidence to have positive conversations with patients around physical activity. Funded by Sport England and Health Education England. As well as the support and resources that you will find here, we also offer 2 free training options:

Helping People Become More Physically Activity. A 1hr module that can be delivered online or face to face. The module is CPD accredited.
Change Talk: Creating Positive Conversations for Physical Activity. A 5 module CPD accredited training workshop with access to follow up support page and full training manual. In addition to the module above it also covers behaviour change theories and models and an introduction to Motivational Interviewing. Best delivered in one day face to face (online options available).

Live Longer Better: This programme is all about providing information and resources to professionals supporting older people age well. Find more details here as well as resources and recordings for past workshops.

Guides and Signposting: Access useful resources and guides here as follows:

Fall Proof online version (printed versions available of request). A series of six strength and balance exercise cards to place around the home.
General physical activity resources. A collation of links to printable resources providing PA advice and guidance. Item 2 here.

Paid for services

Direct Support to Surgeries via our Active Medicine in Practice resources.

GBA provide a series of paid for bespoke support to GP surgeries with the aim of helping to prepare them to achieve the Royal College of GPs' (RCGP) 'Active Practice' Status. For a fee of £5k per surgery GBA will support the practice achieve Active Practice status: this will cover the cost of equipment to support staff and patients become more active, a ringfenced £1k towards the setting up of classes or activities (such as health walks), GBA's handholding through the application process and of course access to all of the free stuff above.

See the external evaluation report and discover how we supported Kintbury and Woolton Hill surgery.

Activity provision for patients

Item 1 here summarises key opportunities by area.
Free access to digital platform 'Fun and Moving' for 12 weeks – details here
For elderly and frail (particularly those at risk of or suffering from loneliness). Our Ever-Active Reading and West Berkshire classes (currently only funded in these 2 areas)

Kirsty Heath

Strategic Lead for Ageing Well

Kirsty is the Strategic Lead for Ageing Well at Get Berkshire Active. She leads on the development of GBA's Ageing Well theme, aiming to create the conditions for a healthy and independent later life. She is also lead liaison for Berkshire West Local Authorities. With over 15 years' experience within the sports sector, she holds a BA (Hons) in Sport, Health and Exercise, as well as an MSc in Sports Injury. Her previous roles were in local authority and the NHS, before joining GBA at its inception is 2011. Her sense of purpose has come from personally discovering the benefits of physical activity and she enjoys helping others to access them. In her spare time, she takes part in netball, fitness classes and loves being outdoors.