Join us in celebrating 10 years of Functional Fitness!

At Your Trust, we are committed to supporting everyone across Rochdale to live their best life by staying active, creative, happy, and healthy.

For over a decade, our Functional Fitness program has been instrumental in transforming the lives of residents living with long-term health conditions. We are so proud to have delivered almost 50 courses, helping over 940 local people improve their health, protect their independence, and live their lives!

Within the 10-week courses, our expert team enables each individual to improve their strength, balance, and mobility, all while having fun and building friendships. From individuals with diabetes, cancer, and those recovering from fractures, our courses empower individuals who may have been through huge challenges to manage their conditions and enjoy life on their own terms. People just like Margaret...

After an operation due to fluid on the brain, Margaret was in a wheelchair, only able to walk very short distances. She relied on her husband for all of her everyday tasks. Luckily, Margaret was referred to one of our Functional Fitness Classes and was able to get back on track! Now, four years after her first course, Margaret wanted to share what getting involved in Functional Fitness has meant to her:

As well as helping individuals like Margaret, we know that our courses are helping our community more widely. We are so pleased to be able to help relieve the intense pressure on the NHS, with each of our courses saving approximately £5,212 in NHS treatment costs (measured through the Sports England Moves measure improvement tool). This totals a staggering £244,000 over the past decade.

Thanks to its huge success, our program has even garnered recognition from industry leaders and health experts and is endorsed as best practice by the BHF National Centre of Physical Action and Health.

Today, as we celebrate the amazing milestone of a decade of Functional Fitness and reflect on its incredible impact, we are looking to the future to ensure that local people can continue to benefit for many more years to come!

And while we know we have made a huge difference, we are still seeing significant need in our local communities. The demand for our courses is rising month on month, and we desperately wish to step up and help.

But we can’t do this alone.

Each 10-week Functional Fitness course costs £1,000 to run. With your support to hit our £2,000 target, we will be able to deliver two more courses within community locations across the Borough, reaching those who need us the most.

So please, if you can, make a donation today to secure the future of this vital initiative. Your gift, no matter the size, will directly fund further Functional Fitness courses, extending crucial support to Rochdale residents battling long-term health conditions.

We’ve achieved so much over the last ten years, and we are so excited to see what we can achieve in the next ten years with you, our community, by our side!

Thank you so much.