At Live and Move, we’re proud to support community-led events that help people move more and the Feel Good Festival in Wonford is a great example of...
Inspire Me
The Hamlin Gardeners – an Interwoven project
At the end of 2024, Live and Move commissioned local organisation, Interwoven Productions, to support a residential area within one of our priority...
Seated exercise classes at Iveagh Court
Getting older. We’re all doing it, and whilst you might think of pensioners as being in armchairs, or perhaps moving only with a walking frame,...
Gabriel House
Live and Move helps residents at Gabriel House to be more active, by setting up a weekly football club.
Fancy wild swimming this year?
The thought of plunging into icy temperatures is not everyone’s cup of tea. But whatever your thoughts, cold water swimming is popular at the moment...
Alternative Black Friday
This part of the year is traditionally a time to think about our loved ones and gifting. Giving presents to those we care for is about showing them...
Moving indoors
It’s safe to assume that we’re approaching the time of year where motivation levels tend to drop, and with the cold weather on its way it can be easy to go off the idea of being active.
Run Talk Run
When you’re feeling low, exercise might be the last thing on your mind. But getting your body moving can do wonders for your mind and can help you...
Fit Fans at Exeter City Community Trust
Lots of plans aimed at helping us all to lead healthier lives come with a hefty price tag. Many are aimed at women. And often, the time commitments...
Bridge Arts Project
As we all know, it’s all very well being told how to be more active, but it’s not always that easy. We need to feel inspired to do so, and what...
Nordic Walking
Walking. For most of us, it’s something we do every day without even thinking about it. But the Exeter Nordic Walking Group takes it a little...
ISCA Apollo
As you know, at Live and Move we are huge fans of anything that gets the people of Exeter and Cranbrook moving more and feeling good. But some...
12 Moves in 12 Months – January Yoga in Pinhoe
Councillor Duncan Wood begins his 2022 #ShareYourMoves journey, part of his 12 Moves in 12 Months challenge, with a month of classes trying out Yoga...
PHAT Health: Plus-size Fitness in Exeter
Exercise is for everyone, but some people face more barriers than others when it comes to getting active. Enter Jess Crew from PHAT, whose mission...
Cllr Duncan Wood’s 12 Moves in 12 Months: Yoga
Exeter City Councillor Duncan Wood has committed to his year-long 12 Moves in 12 Months challenge to get more active by attending his first ever...
Talking parasports with Danny Harris, from Exeter City Community Trust
Exeter’s sporting achievements seem to go from strength to strength. At the time of writing, our football team, Exeter City, are closing in on the...
Meet Exeter Leisure’s Michelle Bristowe
If you’ve ever attended a group exercise classes run at one of our city’s leisure centres, the chances are that you might have come across Michelle. Michelle works to encourage local people to get more active. Sounds very much like Live and Move!
The Bear Trail
If you’re a parent, you’re probably all-too familiar with how difficult it can be to encourage your children to get off their screens and go...
Crunch Nutrition
If you’re somebody who has recently started to move about more, whether it’s walking the stairs at work instead of taking a lift, or embarking upon...
Life-saving activity?
Les Bright of the Exeter Ramblers has written this week’s blog, telling us how walking in the local area has kept him and his wife, Jane, going through a tough year.
Will you tell us your story?
Anyone else feel like they’ve been in a bit of a slump so far in 2021? There’s a problem…
Exeter Community Wellbeing – A Moment to Pause
We’re well into the festive season now and many of our partners and friends across the city are looking forward to a well-earned break in the coming...
Small Changes Make a Big Difference
“So your job, it’s about making people do more physical activity?”
“Erm, no, not really. We’re not in the business of making anyone do anything.”
Silk and Steel
I was out walking the other morning, exercising the dog after the school run, and saw in the grass little clumps of dew-laden cobwebs. This wasn’t...
Sharing our Stories
“Why do we have to go for a walk again, Mummy?” my five-year-old son complained while I was digging out the cupboard under the stairs, in the vain...
Exeter Community Wellbeing – Continuing Community Work
We are now 2 weeks into lockdown number 2 and communities and volunteers across Exeter have not missed a beat.
The Exeter Community Wellbeing hotline (01392 265000, Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm) has been active ever since 23 March but prepared for higher call volumes at the announcement of the second nationwide lockdown…
Suzie’s Lockdown Story
Our journey… "After being locked down and working from home from March and the children being home I realised that after some weeks we weren’t...
Together Alone: Running Under Lockdown
When the government announced that the UK was going into lockdown and that all group activities were to cease immediately, running groups...
Going the Extra Mile
The Royal Devon & Exeter Foundation Trust's Staff Challenge is called 'Going the Extra Mile'. The premise of the challenge was to record...
Jackie’s Lockdown Story
Jackie, a resident who lives in St James in Exeter, shares how she and her family coped and stayed active with lockdown especially with...