It is always wonderful coming across organisations in the health and wellbeing field who are making a significant impact in their community, and Fly Girls Fitness, Wellness and Mindfulness is one of those organisations.

Fly Girls Fitness, Wellness and Mindfulness is an award-winning organisation based in Wembley in the UK and founded by Amanda Epe who is a writer, coach and health promotion specialist. They aim to improve the health and wellbeing of their community through creativity and activity. Their work primarily focuses on girls, women and young people and centres around three activities:

• Fly Girls Fitness
• The Fly Girls Running Community
• Fly Girls Wellness (writing for wellbeing workshops)

Fly Girls Fitness

With Fly Girls Fitness young girls are encouraged to get active using fun activities likes Box Fit and Dance Fit. Here young ladies from the age of 12-25 can come together for free to have fun, get fit and improve their health. The sessions are all about the participants with attendees being able to bring their own playlist of music, this greatly enhances the experience making sessions more enjoyable and giving everyone a sense of ownership of the class.

Classes take place every Saturday afternoon from 3:15pm to 4:15pm at the Chalkhill Centre in Wembley.

Fly Girls Running Community

The Fly Girls Running Community is a group of local women mostly from the London Borough of Brent who meet every Sunday morning at 9am to run together at the national stadium, Wembley. Women of all ages and abilities assemble in the municipal offices at the civic centre before they move upstairs to the stadium for their warm up exercises. The run is for girls over 14 to senior women but particularly targeted at the older population and women from African, Caribbean and Asian heritages, who have higher rates of health inequalities.

This is a get-me-started, run-together group, which started initially as 3 women back in October 2016 and has grown to 30 registered members.  By getting people started the group encourages people who are new to running and/or being active. New members feel welcome in their friendly group where members are non-competitive, and the individual decides whether they wish to run or walk. Those who are new to running take it step by step, gradually going from walking to slow jogging up to 2km, 5km or beyond.

The Fly Girls Running Community has been a massive success with the group winning Run Group of the Year at the London Region England Athletics Volunteer Awards 2017. This was an amazing achievement with finalists being selected from over 600 entries in various categories. In addition to this, Amanda Epe, founder of Fly Girls won Run Leader of the Year.

Fly Girls Wellness

With Fly Girls Wellness, Amanda Epe being a writer herself, explores writing as social therapy. The benefits of writing as therapy has been widely studied and we’ve even written a blog about this here.

Fly Girls Wellness recognises that writing can help people clear their mind and make sense of their situation. They state that writing brings clarity and can bring about a remarkable transformation of feelings. With this in mind they aim to create an opportunity for people to share their true thoughts which can build confidence.  Their Writing for Wellbeing sessions are very different to regular literary groups where members critic your writing style, instead it aims to connect people with each other as their true feelings are shared through writing.

This is a great initiative that provides attendees with a creative way to improve their wellbeing, express their feelings and address the challenges of life.

Find Out More

We love the creative way that Fly Girls is addressing the health and wellbeing challenges in their community and wish them every success with their work.

To find out more about their work you can visit their website or follow them on social media

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