HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE DARTFORD

Our aim at The Healthy Living Centre Dartford is to reduce health inequalities and improve health and wellbeing in our local community in Dartford. We achieve this by delivering and facilitating projects that offer a range of opportunities for training, volunteering, social interaction and community engagement.

Local people looking for affordable and fun activities are invited to join us at Healthy Living

Centre Dartford for our weekly or monthly sessions. Our calendar is jam-packed with a wide range of activities, classes, and clubs from exercise to language lessons to gardening and arts & crafts. Many of these activities are offered free, and those with a cost are just £2.50/£3.50 per session.

One of our newest projects is our Hygge* on The Hill group. *The Danish concept of “hygge” refers to finding comfort, pleasure, and warmth in simple, soothing things such as a cosy atmosphere or the feeling of friendship.

Held every Wednesday morning at Temple Hill Community Centre, we have free tea/coffee and breakfast (toast, selection of cereals) and a huge array of fun activities. We have table tennis, badminton and a pool table as well as scrabble, board games and word puzzles. And the range of activities is growing weekly. But the real beauty of our Hygge group is the warm friendly faces of the people who attend. Most of our attendees visit on their own so don’t worry if you’ve no-one to come with you – you’ll soon find someone to chat to!

Tree ‘Over 55s’ Bingo Club has been going for over 70 years and is showing no signs of slowing down! Every Wednesday afternoon at Tree Community Centre – come along and join in with a game or 2.

Starting this month we have a professional fitness coach offering sessions at Tree Community Centre. Tailored specifically for the over 40s, this 12 week course aims to improve and strengthen the entire body and our coach will provide lots of information and advice for participants to continue their fitness journey.

You can find Healthy Living Centre Dartford activities at both Tree Estate and Temple Hill Community Centres, where our team of friendly volunteers and staff will be happy to welcome you. For all our most up-to-date information follow us on Facebook or Instagram, send us an email at info@hlcdartford.org.uk or call us on 01322 311265.

Volunteering With Healthy Living Centre Dartford

We deliver and facilitate projects that offer a range of opportunities for training, volunteering, social interaction and community engagement and our volunteers are the core of who we are and what we stand for. Our wonderful volunteers are from all backgrounds and vary from retired people, jobseekers and local people with time on their hands. Mostly they are people who want to share their skills and give something back to the community.

Would you like to learn how to teach others to cook and prepare meals or maybe you already have those skills to share with others? Would you like to share your IT skills or learn and progress in a regular IT class? Or if the outdoor life is for you, you can join the team on our community allotment to grow your own vegetables, fruit and flowers.

If you would like more information on these or future activities or have any suggestions, please email us: info@hlcdartford.org.uk and follow our social media pages: Facebook @ healthylivingcentredartford and Instagram: @ hlcdartford.