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Wythenshawe Community Housing Group
Health and Wellbeing Community centres
A range of activities are offered at the Benchill Community Centre and the Woodhouse Park Active Lifestyle Centre.
Participation in regular physical activity increases wellbeing.
• Nearly 3,000 people participated in physical activity during the year
• More than 800 people regularly participated in physical activity
Wythenshawe
All participants
Individual exercise classes Badminton
Football
Children
under the age of 5 participated in active play throughout the 5 days
Games
Wythenshawe Games is an annual community sports festival that forms part of the Manchester Games initiative to inspire local residents to engage in sport, physical activity and a healthy lifestyle.
Over
Over 20,000
people participated in sport
and physical activity, with many more visiting the site
3,000
The busiest day was our This Girl Can day, with
We host the Games in partnership with Manchester City Council and The Forum Trust.
New sports were introduced including disc golf, roller derby and horse riding.
6,470
participants
50
volunteers gave
486
8
hours to support the Games
TOTAL 2,855 people
1,922
605 258
