Getting East Sussex Moving

The East Sussex Healthy Weight Partnership has launched a new activity campaign called Getting East Sussex Moving. It celebrates the places we can get moving across the county, and encourages everyone to be more active. 

Each month there will be a new focus and partners will be posting on social media using the hashtag #GettingEastSussexMoving.

Being active during winter

• This Girl Can
• Eastbourne Ice Rink
• National Trust
• Stay Active in Winter: 9 Hints and Tips | Achieve Oxfordshire
• Physical activity, exercise and mental health - Mind
• Freedom Leisure Classes
• RNLI Hastings December Dip 2024
• Current Challenge : Love to Ride UK Cycling Challenge

Living with a Long-Term health condition

One or multiple long term health conditions:

• We Are Undefeatable
• Defiant Sports
• Physical activity benefits outweigh risks for people with long-term health conditions | Sport England
• IBC Exercise Classes
• Mary Moves It | Facebook
• Seated Exercise | Facebook

Respiratory

• Breathe Easy Eastbourne
• Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) | Asthma + Lung UK (asthmaandlung.org.uk)
• Bexhill Breathers | Facebook
• Keeping active - Supporting breathlessness
• Keeping active with a lung condition | Asthma + Lung UK

Diabetes

• Diabetes and exercise - Diabetes UK

Cardiovascular

• Community Stroke Rehabilitation
• Exercising after stroke | Stroke Association

Active Creativity for children

• 50 things to do before you're 11¾ | Visit | National Trust
• Things to do at the beach │ 50 things | National Trust
• 20 Best Things To Do Outdoors In East Sussex Near Me | Attractions in East Sussex | Day Out With The Kids

Local parks in East Sussex:

• Hastings' parks
• Rother parks
• Wealden parks
• Lewes parks
• Eastbourne parks

Sports for adults

• East Sussex Community Information Service - sports and physical activity
• East Sussex 1Space - Fitness and exercise
• Walking Sports Directory - Find Your Nearest Clubs & Sessions

Exercise classes

• Active Hastings
• Sport Eastbourne
• Active Rother
• Healthy Wealden
• Freedom Leisure
• Wave Active
• Seated Exercise - East Sussex 1Space

Activity at home for adults:

• Active Sussex
• NHS exercise
• Parkrun
• Yoga with Adriene

Walking

Walking

• Join the High Weald Walking Festival: 9-17 September!
• Long distance walks | East Sussex County Council 
• King Charles III England Coast Path - South East - National Trails 

Heritage Open Days

• Homepage (heritageopendays.org.uk)

Walking for mental health

• TCV East Sussex Health Walks 
• Self-led walks Archive - Healthy Wealden 
• Wellbeing Walks (ramblers.org.uk)

Walking to School

• About Us | Living Streets

Park activities, outdoor swimming and watersports in East Sussex

Paddleboarding and sea swimming

• Information on beach safety and lifeguarded beaches
• Stand up paddleboarding – Buzz Active

Fun activities for children

• Holiday Food and Fun (HAF)
• Active Sussex top 20 activities to get children active this season

Local playgrounds in East Sussex:

• The best playgrounds in (or just outside) East Sussex - Your East Sussex by East Sussex County Council

Summer sports 

Cricket 

• Disability cricket 
• Walking cricket in Sussex 

Tennis 

• Disabled tennis sessions 
• Alexandra Park Tennis Courts - WALKINGSPORTS.COM 

Cycle clubs 

• Beachy Head Cycling Club 
• Eastbourne Rovers – Cycling Club 
• 1066 Cycle Club | Cycling UK 
• Cycle Seahaven 
• Hastings & St Leonards CC Club 

Football 

• MAN v FAT - One You East Sussex 
• Walking Football in Sussex 

Cycling in East Sussex

Cycling paths

• The National Cycle Network - Sustrans.org.uk
• The Cuckoo Trail | East Sussex County Council
• Forest Way Country Park | East Sussex County Council

BMX and skateboarding

• East Sussex Skateparks - Guide to Skateparks in East Sussex

Cycle Hire

• Pedal Power
• Let's Bike-Eastbourne

Bikeability and bike training

• What is Bikeability? | East Sussex County Council
• Cycle training for adults | East Sussex County Council

Get moving near you

Countryside Parks & Nature Reserves in East Sussex:

• Beachy Head
• Combe Valley Countryside Park
• Seaford Head Nature Reserve
• Hastings Country Park Local Nature Reserve
• Seven Sisters Country Park

Seafronts, reservoirs and lakes in East Sussex:

• Arlington Reservoir
• Information about beaches in Lewes District and Eastbourne Borough
• Information about beaches in Hastings
• Information about beaches in Rother

Woodlands in East Sussex:

• Friston Forest - Healthy Wealden
• Church Wood & Robsack Wood Local Nature Reserve
• Lewes Railway Land Local Nature Reserve
• Eastbourne Downland Woods - Woodland Trust
• Rother’s countryside – Rother District Council

Some ideas for walks in East Sussex: 123 Walks – One, two and three mile nature walk maps in East Sussex

Gardening and growing activities 

Information on allotments in East Sussex 

• Allotments - Lewes and Eastbourne Councils (lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk) 
• Allotments in Hastings 
• Allotments – Rother District Council 
• Council Land And Property - Wealden District Council - Wealden District Council 

Information on community growing opportunities (click on partners tab for local food partnership) 

•  Good Food for East Sussex | Celebrating Everything Food (goodfoodeastsussex.org.uk) 

Information on green gyms and gardening on prescription 

• Find a Green Gym | TCV 
• NHS England » Green social prescribing 

Community-based activities 

Community centre information 

• Community centres in Lewes and Eastbourne 
• Hastings Voluntary Action 
• Community Centres in Rother District 
• Community centres in Wealden District  

Running 

• Get running with Couch to 5K - NHS (www.nhs.uk) 
• Parkrun UK 

Getting active indoors and out:

Freedom Leisure centres and pools in Wealden, Rother and Hastings

• Freedom Leisure

Gyms and pools in Eastbourne

• Lewes and Eastbourne Councils - getting fit

Support for adults:

• NHS exercise
• Parkrun
• Yoga with Adriene

Support for children:

• Unicef Kid Power
• Cosmic Kids Yoga & Mindfulness
• BBC Super Movers
• GoNoodle
• Healthy indoor activities for kids