Children and Families across Pembrokeshire have been put through their paces during the Winter of Well-being with the team from Forces Fitness!

Children and Families across Pembrokeshire have been put through their paces during the Winter of Well-being with the team from Forces Fitness!

The Winter of well-being has been funded by the Welsh Government and distributed between all Local Authorities in Wales. Forces Fitness sessions have been hosted in partnership by Pembrokeshire Leisure and the Play Team, and have taken place across the county.

The Winter of Well-being sessions consisted of a team of highly qualified Military veterans delivering inspiring fun sessions based around health, well-being, building resilience and most of all having fun, giving the families taking part something to really smile about! Long before this pandemic, we all knew that physical activity boosted our health and ability to resist and overcome illness. That conclusion hasn’t changed. In fact, it’s more relevant now than ever!

Below is snap shot of some of the feedback and stats from our Pembrokeshire locations – 

Over 100 people attended! 

People who want to do similar activities again:  100%

People who said they had fun: 100%

All rated the Instructor team as Very good to Excellent!

All Attendees rated the activities Very Good to Excellent! 

“Great session for kids to learn about team building and problem solving with others while having great fun. Instructors were fantastic and were great with the kids.”

“All enjoyed very much, lots of fun and laughter and bought out their competitive side. Thank you”

“Fantastic session again. Kieran and Kallum were absolutely fantastic with the children, really engaging and fun. We look forward to booking into future sessions. Many thanks Natasha”

“When your children walk out and ask, ‘When are we doing it again?’, you know it’s a winner!”

“My daughter thoroughly enjoyed todays session, she wishes it was available all the time.”

“Great fun – would like to do this every week!!”

“Both my girls didn’t want to leave and had a brilliant time.”

“Lewis “It was good fun and put me in a good mood for the day.”

Sean Molino BCA (Managing Director Forces Fitness Ltd) ” This Program has been extremely well received by the community, I would like to thank the Welsh Government for enabling this happen along with all our delivery Partners, especially Pembrokeshire Council, Pembrokeshire Leisure and the Play Team for being so supportive of this initiative, Huge thanks to all the Staff who made these sessions so memorable for so many, the parents, Guardians, family members and of course our amazing attendees! Let’s hope this we can deliver something similar the summer months!

Kelly John, Strategic & Operational Play Officer for Pembrokeshire said; “Once again we were absolutely delighted to have Forces Fitness visit Pembrokeshire to deliver a whole week of action packed activities for our children and young people during February half term. It was fantastic to see so many families booked to attend, with smiles and laughter all round!

I would like to say a huge thank you to the Forces Fitness Team for providing such enthusiasm and positive energy to the half term week; allowing everyone to get involved and have some much needed fun! Pembrokeshire CANNOT wait to have you back again very soon! #winterofwellbeing

Forces Fitness is a multi-award winning company including The Education Award at the National Fitness Awards and a GOLD ERS Award holder received from the MOD that provide a number services from Outdoor Boot camp sessions, Employability Bootcamps, Health and Well-Being workshops and Full Board Residential Boot camps. They also work closely with many businesses, organisations, sports clubs, schools, colleges and universities. All their sessions are instructed by either ex or serving members of the armed forces. They have appeared on multiple TV programmes on BBC1, BBC1 Wales and also Cardiff TV, including Alfie’s Army with Gareth ‘Alfie’ Thomas and Lets get a good thing with Kevin Duala