Get Active to Support your Mental Health

We recognise the difficulties in finding physical activities to support one’s mental health. Whether you yourself are looking to join an activity, or if you are a professional needing guidance to know where to signpost someone, our interactive map below will be a useful starting point.

Find our interactive map to search through the activity provision across Hertfordshire with a focus on supporting mental wellbeing. You can find locations, prices, contacts and more. You’ll find details on specific criteria for joining sessions e.g., gender-specific, age-specific, SEN and neurodivergent provision, or suitability for certain mental health conditions.

Certain activities are provided online or across several districts and therefore, not included in the interactive map. Please see below for further activities that could be the perfect boost to your mental wellbeing:

Hertfordshire Health Walks

• Across districts: Dacorum, East Herts, Hertsmere, North Herts, St Albans, Stevenage, Watford & Three Rivers, Welwyn Hatfield, and Broxbourne.
• Please see the website for further details on latest timetables for walks.
• All walks are free with no booking required.
• Turn up 10 minutes before the walk for a pre-walk briefing.
• Most walks are Monday-Friday with some longer walks on the weekends.
• If you are returning from an injury or illness, there are optional ‘first steps’ walks to ease people back in.
• Contact: healthwalks.cms@hertfordshire.gov.uk

BEEE Creative – Wake Up & Dance – Online

• Free, online weekdays 9-9.10am. 10 minutes of daily dance to add to your daily schedule. It is a fun way to get the body and mind active and ready to start the day, whilst connecting with others.
• Open to anyone.
• Contact: hannah@beee-creative.co.uk
• https://beee-creative-cio.uk/events/wake-up-and-dance/

Active Hertfordshire Karate.

• Training classes/clubs with an added focus on helping to channel emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing and grow positively, with confidence.
• Provision for those with learning difficulties as well.
• Contact: enquiries@ahk.org.uk
• Locations: Ashwell, Hitchin, Letchworth, Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City, Harpenden, Hemel Hempstead. Please see website for timings of classes.
• First lesson is FREE.

Watford FC Community Sport & Education Trust – Shape Up.

• A 12-week course for weight management.
• Aimed at men aged 18 to 65 years-old with a BMI of 30 or over and men from the BAME community with a BMI of 28 or over.
• Contact: shapeup@watfordfc.com
• Find the latest courses here across all districts of Hertfordshire.

SPACE Hertfordshire.

• All sessions are exclusively for neurodivergent children and young people including autism and ADHD. No diagnosis is necessary.
• Whether you think your child may be neurodivergent, are going through the diagnostic process, or have already received a diagnosis, you are in safe hands.
• Details on specific sessions are shown on their website including water sports, climbing, aerial activities, cooking, and outdoor free play. To enquire, contact admin@spaceherts.org.uk.