Health improvement projects

Throughout 2026, we are running a series of free sessions for adults with learning disabilities and their carers. Browse the events in this section to see what’s coming up and get full details.

Martial Arts and Gardening sessions

Multi-Sports and Walking Silent Disco Margate

Multi-Sports and Walking Silent Disco Ramsgate

We are excited to have been awarded Cycling UK Big Bike Revival Funding for the 3rd year.

We are running five bike rides with Thanet Coast Project, Birdwise and the Biodiversity Team and 14 free Bike Fixes.

For full details and to book your spot, please visit Big Bike Revival’s event page.

Free bike rides

Free bike fixes

Aging Well classes

During March and April 2026, in collaboration with Sport England and Active Kent and Medway, we held free Aging Well classes for over 55’s, and those with a long-term health condition or disability. Classes were held at four locations across Thanet.

Smokefree Spaces

In 2025, we received funding from Kent County Council’s Smokefree Spaces scheme to design and display “Smoke-Free” signs in Ramsgate High Street and seven play parks across the district.

We held 15 workshops where people could help design the signs. We also ran 14 events in the parks and on Ramsgate High Street to talk to the community. For these events, we worked with:

• The NHS “One You” Smoke Free Team
• The SEK Cancer Awareness Team
• Kent Family Hubs
• Thanet Libraries
• Orbit Housing
• Discovery Planet

During these events, we recorded over 1,000 conversations with residents about the free NHS “One You” program that helps people stop smoking. The feedback from these conversations helped us successfully apply for a new grant from Active Kent and Medway to continue our stop smoking efforts, starting in September 2025.

Smokefree Spaces is part of the council’s response to the government’s Stop the Start campaign, which aims to help create a smoke-free generation. Recent data has shown that over 80% of smokers started before the age of 20, with many starting much younger.

One You Kent provides advice on giving up smoking and vaping. You can find out more on their website.

Chosen design for Ramsgate High Street

Chosen designs for parks

Shortlisted designs

Free street sport sessions

During summer 2025, we hosted free Street Sport sessions four times a week in Dane Park.

These sessions ran until Tuesday 26 August 2025. They were for everyone, no matter their age or ability, with the aim to get people outside, getting active, and having fun.

We set up games like volleyball, badminton, tennis, football, or rounders, and adjusted each session so it was fun for everyone.

These events were made possible with funding from the Active Kent and Medway Multi-Sport Fund.

Free summer holiday sport sessions

During the 2025 summer school holidays, we held free summer holiday Street Sport Sessions, funded by Active Kent and Medway – Sport England. The free sessions were held at three parks in Thanet (Boundary Park, Ramsgate, Newington Park, Ramsgate and Dane Valley Road Park) All ages were welcome.

There were coaches from:

• Sports IQ
• Scorcha Skate School
• Ramsgate Football Club
• This Bean spins
• Inclusive Sport

Free courses to reduce stress for people that smoke or vape

Throughout September and October 2025 we held free six-week courses for people who smoke or vape. The courses, started in September 2025, and taught new ways to manage stress.

People that attended were able to try out activities like:

• Boxing for mental health
• Breathwork yoga and sound bath
• Clubbercise
• Yoga and mindfulness
• Disability swim session
• Beginners bootcamp
• Walking silent disco

These courses were funded by Active Kent and Medway, in partnership with NHS One You.

Active Kent and Medway Thanet Street Sports Test & Learn (Summer 2025)

Our Health Improvement Officer was recently invited to lead the ‘Movement Breaks’ sessions at the Active Kent and Medway Move Together 2025 Conference.

Here are some photos from the event, along with some five-minute, bite-size workouts created by our Health Improvement Officer that you can try yourself.