You can find services to support your physical health and fitness in the MindWell Directory:

Services and wellbeing programmes

  • Active Leeds (leisure centres) – Active Leeds supports people in Leeds to become active through low cost access to leisure centres and a timetable of community sports and activities including football, swimming and zumba groups.
  • City Connect – City Connect provides help with getting started with cycling and walking, free adult cycling training and route planners.
  • Fit Minds with Leeds United Foundation – Fit Minds from Leeds United Foundation is a free, 12 week course focusing on mental health and wellbeing
  • LS-TEN – LS-TEN offers an engagement and wellbeing programme to promote physical activity, positive engagement and making positive choices. 
  • Try Club with Leeds Rhinos Foundation – Try Club is run by Leeds Rhinos Foundation for men aged 18 and over who want to eat better, do more exercise and lose weight.

Exercise groups

  • Active Leeds (groups and classes) – Active Leeds supports people in Leeds to become active through low cost access to leisure centres and a timetable of community sports and activities including football, swimming and zumba groups.
  • Big Club Fitness – community gym-based session with direction for beginners, catered to bigger bodies. No experience needed and one-to-one support offered. Meets on Thursdays from 10.00am to 11.00am at the Denis Healey Centre, LS14 6RD. Email seacroftcommunityontop@outlook.com for more details.
  • Climb Alongside Mental Health (C/A/M) – Climb Alongside Mental Health (C/A/M) promotes the positive effects of rock climbing to help with mental health.
  • Hamara Men’s Walking Group – Hamara runs an exercise and walking group for men aged 55 and over who live in the LS11 area.
  • Leeds Angels Football – Angels of Freedom are working with the Leeds United Foundation to deliver free LGBT+ weekly fitness through football sessions. All experience and fitness levels welcome, including absolute beginners.
  • Leeds Girls Can – Leeds Girls Can celebrates active women in Leeds.
  • Leeds Ramblers – Leeds Ramblers brings people together for fresh air, exercise and the sheer enjoyment of walking in the countryside with good company.
  • Mental Health Mates Leeds – Mental Health Mates Leeds is a friendly peer support community group which meets monthly to walk, talk and share with others, without fear of judgement.
  • Ping Pong 4U – Ping Pong 4U offers Ping Pong activities for individuals of all ages and abilities, schools, charities and organisations.
  • Recovery Runners – Recovery Runners is a running group for anyone who is interested in running to recover from life changing events or addictive behaviours.
  • #runandtalk – runandtalk is a social running group for anyone who wants to improve their mental wellbeing through running.
  • Run Talk Run – Run Talk Run aims to make both running and mental health support less intimidating and more accessible.
  • Seacroft Wheelers (cycling club) – Seacroft Wheelers is a friendly cycling club based in the east of Leeds which welcomes all riders from raw beginners to competitive racers.
  • Strega Running Club – a dedicated women’s-only running community based in Leeds LS9, offering a secure and encouraging environment for local women to enjoy in outdoor exercise. The club focuses on physical fitness, social connections and promoting overall wellbeing. They aim to empower women of all ages and fitness levels, with weekly running sessions, monthly social gatherings and occasional walking activities. Find out more on their Instagram page @stregarunning.
  • Wheels 4 Fun – Wheels 4 Fun is a community disability cycling group.
  • Walk and Talk (Women’s Walking Group) – Walk and Talk (Women’s walking group) can help you rediscover the beauty of being outside, feel healthier and connect with other women.
  • Yorkshire Sport Foundation – Yorkshire Sport Foundation uses physical activity and sports to bring people together and tackle inequality.
  • Your Space Leeds Women’s Walking Group – Your Space Leeds Women’s Walking Group in the LS8 area offers the opportunity to connect with nature, meet other women in the area and take some well-deserved time-out for yourself.

Community wellbeing activities

  • Asha Neighbourhood Project – Asha Neighbourhood Project aims to improve the lives of all women and children living in South Leeds providing a healthier, happier and more productive life.
  • Barca-Leeds Better Together Project (West Leeds) – Barca-Leeds Better Together project run several community groups for adults in West Leeds including walking, arts and craft sessions, yoga and cooking groups.
  • Better Together (South Leeds) – Better Together is a healthy communities, healthy lives project across inner South Leeds, including physical activity sessions such as Tai Chi, walk and talk and men or women only exercise groups.
  • Feel Good Factor (Chapeltown and Harehills) – Feel Good Factor (FGF) is a charity based in Chapeltown which provides a range of community health and wellbeing groups and activities for people living in Chapeltown and Harehills.
  • Guiseley Community Foundation – Guiseley Community Foundation run free men’s football and chat sessions in Nethermoor Park.
  • Hamara Healthy Living Centre (Beeston) – Hamara Healthy Living Centre is an ethnic minority organisation that runs a wide range of groups and activities for different age groups.
  • Health for All (East Leeds) – East Leeds Health for All Project is a Healthy Living Service in the heart of Burmantofts in Lincoln Green. Check out their latest activities.
  • Mentally Healthy Leeds (East and West Leeds) – Mentally Healthy Leeds run groups and activities which aim to bring people together to build confidence, friendships and reduce social isolation.
  • New Wortley Centre – New Wortley Community Centre works to provide services and support to the people of New Wortley including a range of groups in person and online, in partnership with Live Well Leeds.
  • Shantona Leeds (LS8) – Shantona Leeds offer a range of support services focused on empowering women and strengthening families.
  • Space2 (Gipton) – Space2, based in Gipton, Leeds, run several groups and activities with a focus on health and wellbeing.
  • The Conversation Volunteers (TCV) Hollybush (Kirkstall) – Hollybush TCV is a community volunteering charity which offers a wide range of conservation activities, courses and opportunities for volunteering. Hollybush TCV Conservation Centre is based in Kirkstall, Leeds.
  • WISH (Morley) – W.I.S.H (Women In Silence Heard) is a support group for women to discuss their troubles and gain the help they need through peer to peer support.
  • Your Space Leeds (Holbeck) – Your Space Leeds offers social groups, walking groups, workshops and healthy living activities in Holbeck.
  • Zest (East and across city) – Zest offers support and opportunity to people living in disadvantaged areas of Leeds to promote happy and healthy lifestyles.