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How Sports For Seniors Has Adapted Through Distance And Uncertainty

Pre-lockdown, we never expected to be Zooming our walking football team by the end of the year. Here's how we did it, and how you can too.

Free Exercise Classes On Zoom

In December and January, we’ll be hosting free online classes for older adults. Click to get the information and hop on a class.

Active Travel Schemes- A Help or Hindrance?

The Active Travel Neighbourhood Scheme is having wooden planters pop up across Leeds. Residents didn't have a say before they were put in, but what do they think now they are in place?

Getting Active and Online- Update!

New exercise content for our channel, working around restrictions and other news.

By Sydney O'Connor, 2 months2 months ago

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need(ing Parks!)

Move aside Maslow, there’s a new theory in town: a run down of why parks are important & what we’re doing at YBY to make the most of them.

By Sydney O'Connor, 3 months3 months ago

COVID-19 Has Exposed and Amplified Existing Inequalities

It was a very interesting hour listening to experts from The Health Foundation discuss health inequality on Monday- at Your Back Yard we’ve got our ears on the ground to hear more from their inquiry into the pandemics impacts.

By Sydney O'Connor, 3 months3 months ago