Solent University have recently opened up their own health initiative called Active Campus.
Students can go to the Solent Sports Complex on campus and attend these sessions – which run several times each week.
With sports such as Pickleball, Table Tennis, and Indoor Cycling available for everyone for just £2 per session, it is a steal as you can improve your physical wellbeing and mental health along the way.
Here is what Solent’s Sports Education Partnership Manager, Iain Molyneux, had to say about the scheme.
The mental benefits come from a social and inclusive environment where you’re able to switch off from those daily stresses and just have some fun playing new sports, meeting new people and making new friends.
The social aspect of the initiative is also a crucial benefit to taking part in the sessions, with Lauren Gerrish, Solent’s Sport Programme Officer, who says:
You get to meet new people, try new sports, and make new connections but it’s great for your health as well and it’s another opportunity for students to get involved in sport.
This initiative was introduced earlier this autumn, and it came at the perfect time for students, who either did not make it into certain sports teams, or are just looking for something to do outside their lectures.
Solent’s Sports Development Officer, Charlie Dast, saw this gap and took the opportunity to set it up with both hands.
A lot of students who go to university will naturally go to trials for various sports they’re interested in and unfortunately for them if they don’t make it there is nowhere for them to go, so this is here as an outlet where those students could potentially come so they still have that opportunity to play sports.
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