MAN v FAT, the UK’s main male weight reduction programme, is to accomplice with the Castleford Tigers Group Basis to assist males within the city to take steps to enhance their well being and wellbeing.
Having supported tens of hundreds of males to lose over 750,000lbs of weight since they received began in 2014, MAN v FAT picked up the oval ball in 2024 to additional unfold the phrase on male wellbeing.
And Castleford is about to develop into one of many newest launches in MAN v FAT Rugby, with the membership getting underway in March at Castleford Academy.
Karl White, from MAN v FAT’s HQ staff stated: “I used to be enthused to listen to Anthony’s ardour in direction of eager to make an actual distinction to males’s lives inside the area people. It’s clear that underneath his steerage the Castleford Tigers Group Basis will assist affect constructive wholesome modifications, and this completely aligns with our personal targets not solely in Castleford, however throughout the nation.”
“It’s additionally a robust message for the rugby league neighborhood {that a} shift in direction of social impression and utilizing our nice sport as a car to try this at present exists, and we will be seen as greater than a sport however a real rugby league household.” – Anthony Atherton, Castleford Tigers Group Basis#
The Castleford Tigers Group Basis offers a variety of sporting, instructional, entrepreneurial, well being and wellbeing programmes to learn their native space and the staff there are excited to be partnering with MAN v FAT to deliver weight reduction assist to the city.
Anthony Atherton, Basis Supervisor, added: “The programme that Karl and the staff have put collectively is nice, it provides us one other alternative to attach with our city, and supply a brand new alternative that may have a big impression upon well being and wellbeing. It’s additionally a robust message for the rugby league neighborhood {that a} shift in direction of social impression and utilizing our nice sport as a car to try this at present exists, and we will be seen as greater than a sport however a real rugby league household.”
Having launched quite a few golf equipment on the tail finish of 2024, the MAN v FAT staff are already seeing successes on the scales of their Rugby golf equipment too – and Karl is assured that comparable achievements will probably be made in Castleford: “MAN v FAT Soccer succeeds off the again of a robust neighborhood really feel and we all know that neighborhood is a cause why rugby golf equipment up and down the nation prosper.
“We have now already seen some robust friendships in-built our preliminary Rugby golf equipment and are trying ahead to seeing this unfold in Castleford too.”
As with MAN v FAT Soccer, rugby contributors would should be aged 18+ with a BMI of 27.5 or larger to get began. Extra particulars in regards to the programme and learn how to register will be discovered at www.manvfatrugby.com.
To search out out extra particulars in regards to the Castleford membership, which launches on March 25th, go to: https://manvfatrugby.com/membership/castleford/