Active Campus
The Active Campus project is about creating a happier, healthier, and more active community of staff and students at the University of Northampton. We aim to create an environment where there are greater opportunities to be more active while on campus, and that these opportunities are inclusive, social and fun.
The University of Northampton is doing this through a range of initiatives, including supporting staff and student-led sport, exercise and physical activity groups. You can join in with any of the groups on campus, which are usually free (either through the Students Union, or our new Don’t Pay, Just Play scheme for staff). Alternatively, if you have a particular set of skills that are related to different sports or physical activities, you can sign up to lead or help lead one of these groups, for example, the weekly Wednesday walk or Thursday night badminton!
We are partnered with Trilogy Leisure, which offers discounted memberships to all students and staff at the University of Northampton; Cripps Recreation Centre has a gym and swimming pool facilities and is just a five minute walk from our Waterside Campus. If you’d prefer to combine exercise with your commute to university, we have lots of information on cycling and walking routes to help keep you fit.
At the University of Northampton, the health and wellbeing of our students and staff is very important to us. The Wellbeing Community brings together teams from across the University to support, improve and promote the wellbeing and physical and mental health of those living, studying and working here.
Aims of the Active Campus
The Active Campus project aims to get students and staff more active through five main initiatives:
- Offering a range of more structured and organised sport and physical activities. For example, students can join the 5-a-side football that the Residential Life team organise or the wide range of free sport offered by the Students Union. Staff may consider the staff-led walking, running, or yoga classes that take place on campus that can fit in around the working day.
- Promoting and supporting Active Transport. Making it easier to travel to and from campus with more active forms such as cycling, walking, running, or some other active or partially-active form of transport such as Voi-scooters.
- Proving fun, casual, unstructured socialising and recreational activities on campus, such as the Ping! table tennis tables, table football, and lawn games such as badminton or boules.
- Moving more around campus. By using psychological incentives and nudges to encourage walking around the campus, we hope to get you to be more active while you are onsite.
- To host and promote regular or annual events, activities and initiatives that support a more active lifestyle such as the Waterside Parkrun, a Festival of Cycling, or an annual charity fundraising sporting event such as a colour run.
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Active Campus has affiliated with Les Mills to enable our
staff and students accessing a library of over 1,500+ LES MILLS workouts including strength training, cardio, core conditioning, HIIT, cycling, yoga, dance, wellness and more with a great 33% discount. There is a 30 days trial for free to try out. Payments start after 30 days free trial. Subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each billing period, unless cancelled.Options:
- Monthly: £8.70
- 3-Monthly: £25.47
- Annually: £89.88
Work out wherever, whenever. Available on popular devices, follow along in a spare studio space, outdoors and at home. All you need is 15 minutes.
Perfect for all fitness levels. No equipment is needed to start. Beginners can follow the low-impact options and choose shorter 15- to 30-minute workouts. LES MILLS+ has extra programming such as nutrition, wellness including meditation and mindfulness, and exercise activities for younger years for a complete experience.