HIVE Directory: Your Emotional Well-Being

The centre is a sport and activity facility. The centre has a large sports hall, a dance studio and meeting spaces available for hire.

Charles Dickens Activity Centre is home to many groups such as salsa dancing, volleyball, football, boogie bounce, fitness classes plus many more.

Community Connectors provide short term support (usually about 6-8 weeks) to help individuals take the first steps towards getting out and about in their community.

Company of Makers exists to support ex-Service personnel and their partners with transitioning from military to civilian life, no matter how long it’s been since they left the Armed Forces.

COPD Maintenance

This class is designed to slow down the rate of progression and improve quality of life for those living with COPD. It incorporates a combination of cardiovascular along with both upper and lower body resistance exercise.

We help people through one of the most painful times in life – with bereavement support, information and campaigning.

Our Helpline is run by trained bereavement volunteers, who offer emotional support to anyone affected by grief.

We’ll give you space to talk about your feelings and how you’ve been coping. Our volunteers are completely non-judgemental and won’t share what you’ve told them with anyone else, unless you are in danger.

Energise Me's mission is to change lives through physical activity and sport, inspiring people to adopt active lifestyles that make our communities happier, healthier and stronger.

Family Clip 'N Climb @ Mountbatten Leisure Centre

An action packed climbing adventure for everyone! Try 7 fun themed challenges and climb to the top. For both children and adults! Please note: this session includes a 15 minutes briefing time maximum depending on group size before your climbing starts.
Minimum age 4 years.
If you are an adult and you are NOT climbing, you do not have to purchase tickets. We do have a viewing area within the climbing facility.

The First Stop service offers free advice on housing and care options for people in later life

The idea behind Gig Buddies is that we enable people with a learning disability and / or autism to enjoy everything great within their community.

To enable and support people to do this, we recruit volunteers from within the community who are then paired with individuals based on their likes and interests so they can attend events, socialise and enjoy a number of activities together.

By matching people with the same interests and passions this in turn develops into a genuine friendship and begins to diminish social isolation.

Each participant is matched with a volunteer and then plan to meet once a month to go to a gig, concert, theatre, football, cinema or a catch up in the local park or down the local pub. Group activities are planned monthly whereby everyone can get together and share their stories and make new friends.

By being paired with a gig buddy, not only are real friendships made but the experience increases self-confidence, teaches new skills, increases independent travel, expands social networks and enables people to have lots of fun.

GP Aqua Fit