Maintain an independent active lifestyle through exercise

Welcome
We hope you like our new and improved website. You will find all you need is just a click away. There's news and advice for fully qualified EXTEND teachers as well as a full list of classes held throughout the UK that are open to members of the public. Please feel free to browse the site, if you have any queries that are not answered on our website then please contact us at Head Office open Monday to Friday 9-3pm.

EXTEND provides gentle exercise to music for older people and for anyone of any age with a disability. Our mission is to promote health, increase mobility and independence, improve strength, co-ordination and balance and to counteract loneliness and isolation.

The EXTEND charity comprises of many hundreds of volunteers who have completed the 12-day teacher training course. We are always looking for more volunteers to join our organisation and support the delivery of exercise sessions for the older person and those less able of any age. For further information about training courses and how to become an EXTEND teacher please visit our Training section.

If you are interested in making a donation or supporting EXTEND in other ways please read our section on Sponsorship and Fundraising.

Important Notice to all teachers

Included in the re-affiliation renewal packs is a newsletter containing details on how to obtain a CRB disclosure through Dudley Kerswell. Regretably, the email address is incorrect. Please insert the letter s between the r and w in Dudley's surname. This should rectify the problem. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.