On Friday our chair, Jim Ruddick, is at the British Lifestyle Medicine Conference in Warwick, talking about football as a health service.
On Friday our chair, Jim Ruddick, is at the British Lifestyle Medicine Conference in Warwick, talking about football as a health service.
Not as a metaphor. 742 players and more than 190 volunteers, outdoors, moving about, with people they know, most weekends of the year. That is a public health intervention that happens to involve a ball. The adults get as much out of it as the children do.
We have also just brought Sarah Payne Riches onto the committee as our public health officer. She is a physiotherapist working in public health, she used to coach our Arctic Wolves, and she is building the club's Health Champions programme.