Local Healthy Activities / Your Health and Wellbeing

Read or Download our own Healthy Activities booklet

A selection of the healthy activities in our area:

On Your Bike

An annual bike ride around Sonning Common and the surrounding areas, starting and finishing from Sonning Common Primary School. Visit www.onyourbikesonningcommon.co.uk for further information.

Sonning Common Green Gym

The Sonning Common Green Gym is a great way to be active, stay fit and combine this with giving a helping hand in your community! Visit www.sonningcommon.tcv.org.uk for further information.

Health Walks

Health Walks, set up by Dr William Bird, aim to improve people’s fitness, both in body and mind, by encouraging them to use their local countryside for walking. Visit www.sonningcommonhealthwalks.co.uk for further information.

GO Active!

GO Active, Get Healthy, a free project that aims to help people do more physical activity and exercise, getting more activity into their everyday lives. Visit the Oxfordshire page www.getoxfordshireactive.org for further information on lots of activities in our area and it is searchable by postcode.

Strength and Balance Exercise Classes

Walking Football

High Blood Pressure- Keeping the pressure off

Your GP practice is starting a new program to help you manage your own Blood Pressure. The care co-ordinator team are contacting patients and asking them to measure their blood pressure using a home monitoring machine, twice a day for four days in a row. After you have completed the seven days of readings and sent the results back, the team will contact you with your feedback.

If you know you have high Blood pressure or have recently had a high reading and want to take part in home blood pressure readings, please see the BP Patient Pack and take part or for more information on home blood pressure please contact the care co-ordinators via email occg.schc_care_coordinators@nhs.net

Here are useful links to understanding blood pressure and a link to our most recommended at Home Blood Pressure machine: understanding-blood-pressure booklet BHF