MAN v FAT, the UK’s main male weight reduction programme, is to associate 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 1000’s 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 turn out to be 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 group mentioned: “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 local people. It’s clear that beneath his steering the Castleford Tigers Group Basis will assist affect constructive wholesome modifications, and this completely aligns with our personal aims 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 affect and utilizing our nice sport as a car to do this at present exists, and we might 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, academic, entrepreneurial, well being and wellbeing programmes to learn their native space and the group there are excited to be partnering with MAN v FAT to convey weight reduction assist to the city.
Anthony Atherton, Basis Supervisor, added: “The programme that Karl and the group have put collectively is nice, it offers us one other alternative to attach with our city, and supply a brand new alternative that may have a major affect upon well being and wellbeing. It’s additionally a robust message for the rugby league neighborhood {that a} shift in direction of social affect and utilizing our nice sport as a car to do this at present exists, and we might be seen as greater than a sport however a real rugby league household.”
Having launched quite a lot of golf equipment on the tail finish of 2024, the MAN v FAT group are already seeing successes on the scales of their Rugby golf equipment too – and Karl is assured that comparable achievements can 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 purpose why rugby golf equipment up and down the nation prosper.
“We’ve got already seen some robust friendships inbuilt our preliminary Rugby golf equipment and are wanting 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 greater to get began. Extra particulars concerning the programme and find out how to register might be discovered at www.manvfatrugby.com.
To search out out extra particulars concerning the Castleford membership, which launches on March 25th, go to: https://manvfatrugby.com/membership/castleford/