THOUSANDS of children are being offered free trampolining sessions to help combat the country’s obesity problem.
Flip Out Glasgow is providing up to 10,000 hours of free jumping to up to 85 primary and secondary schools across Glasgow and west central Scotland.
The trampoline park – based in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire – is offering a block of four hour-long sessions between 10am and 2pm which schools can use for one class or split across all year groups.
Flip Out hopes the initiative will encourage children to become more active after the latest figures showed just one in 10 children in Scotland between the ages of 10 and 11 is getting the recommended daily level of exercise.
More than a quarter of Scottish children are overweight or obese.
Flip Out general manager George Gallacher said: “We’re committed to helping get kids across Glasgow active. We know it can be challenging to keep children engaged in regular physical activity, so by offering schools free access to the arena we hope it will not only add some extra excitement and fun to PE lessons, but also inspire kids to exercise more often.”
Flip Out said trampolining offers a full body work-out, improves balance, cardio, flexibility and strengthens bone density. Sessions are available to book immediately on a first-come, first-served basis.
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