Drs John Coffin and David Acorn
Family Medical Practice

Contacts

Keeping Fit

Click on the following links to find out about local opportunities to keep fit

Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools
Gyms
Local Sports Clubs and Fitness Classes
Opportunities for disabled people

Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools

Riverside Ice and Leisure

Victoria Road, Chelmsford

01245 615050

www.chelmsford.gov.uk/riverside

In the "Live Life" exercise referral scheme

• Sports Hall for many activities including, archery, badminton, football and hockey
• Aerobics classes
• Squash
• Sauna
• Gym
• Swimming pools
• Ice rink
• Créche
• Café

Brentwood Centre

Doddinghurst Road
Brentwood

01277 215 151

Bookings
01277 224 386

• Sports Hall
• Swimming pools
• Squash
• Sauna
• "Heartbeat" fitness centre
• Outdoor hardcourts
• Créche
• Café

Shenfield Sports Centre

01277 226 220

• "Heartbeat" fitness centre
• "Heartbeat" gym
• Sports Hall
• Netball courts
• Bar and café

Lake Meadows Swimming Pool

Billericay

01277 657 111

• public swim
• water aerobics
• swimming lessons

Gyms

Billericay Sports and Fitness Centre

School Road, Billericay

(a facility run by Billericay School)

01277 655 545

• swimming pool
• gym 
• aerobics classes and other activities

LA Fitness
Billericay

01277 633 633

www.lafitness.co.uk

• small swimming pool
• large gym
• various classes and activities

Stock Brook

Queens Road
Billericay

01277 650 400

• swimming pool
• large gym
• sauna
• tennis courts
• bowls
• golf course

Cannons Health Club

Riverside Retail Park
38 Victoria Rd
Chelmsford

www.cannons.co.uk

08707 582 152

• 2 Swimming pools
  Gym
• 2 Group exercise studios
• Beauty Treatment Rooms
• Spa
• Steam Room
• Sauna
• Hairdressers
• Café-bar
• Crèche

Local Sports Clubs and Fitness Classes

Aerobics Class

In the Rectory Hall, Stock

Instructor is Jo, who is fully qualified

• Mondays 7.30pm to 8.30pm
• £4 a session
• everybody welcome
• YMCA music
• just turn up

Billericay Striders Running Club

Enjoy running through the local countryside and lanes

Contact Ian Grant
01277 652 855

• all levels and ages catered for
• just turn up on Tuesday or Thursday evenings at 7.00 pm at  Hannakins  Farm Community Centre, Rosebay Avenue, Billericay or Lake Meadows car park at 8.30 am on Sunday mornings

Body Focus

At Stock Village Hall

Contact Christina Ballard, (Dance Examiner and Lecturer for the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing)
01245 400 479

• Wednesdays at 2.30 pm except holidays
• aimed at women over 50
• A "Balanced, comfortable and safe exercise class to music, designed to strengthen and tone the whole of the body"
• Fee £6 a session

Chelmsford Asthma Swim Group

In association with the National Asthma Campaign and the Amateur Swimming Association

or phone Jo on 01245 355 568

Riverside Learner Pool

( in Riverside Ice and Leisure, Victoria Rd, Chelmsford) on Wednesdays 7.30-8.30

or phone Jo on 01245 355 568

• learn and practise Cricket
• for both sexes
• during summer, around April/May to September 
• from 6 to 8 pm
• on Tuesday under 11's 
• Thursday evenings under 13's and 15's
• winter practice in nets, ask Phil Cottee for details

Essex Roads Cycling Club

Based in Billericay, various activities for cyclists and a keep fit class

Fitness in Retirement

At the Rectory Hall, Stock
"safe exercises to music"

Recreational Swimming

At Mayflower School, Stock Road
Billericay
Swimming for fitness and fun

Contact Anne
01277 840 821
or
Marion 01277 652 855

• Friday evenings in term times
• 7.30pm to 8.45pm
• adults only
• about £2.50  a session

Rugby Club

At Willowbrook in Stock Road

Contact Neil Jarvis
01277 622582

• Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7.30 for training
• Matches Saturday afternoons
• Three teams

Stock Tennis Club

A small friendly club, on the Stock to Billericay Road

Contacts
Lorraine Boddy (club secretary) 01277 840947

Lynne Davies (membership secretary) 01277 625925

• three all-weather floodlit courts
• tennis coach
• club sessions
• large junior section
• off-peak ladies sessions

Yoga Class

"This class is a total body plan, suitable for total beginners as well as the more advanced"

Opportunities for disabled people

Chelmsford Disability Sports Forum

This group keeps a list of sports and activities for disabled people in and around Chelmsford.
The list is too long to put on this website, but contact Gillian Blackburn for details.

or email here

Chelmsford Stroke Exercise Group

If you are recovering from a stroke and have finished therapy you can take part in this exercise programme

Contact Beverly Reynolds (Family support organizer)  on 01245 442053 or George Flaherty (instructor) on 01245 357 132

If your class is not here and you would like us to add it please contact us on the feedback page

For more information about exercise and health and sensible precautions to take before starting to exercise, see our page on Keeping Active

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