Self-help website offering impartial advice about equipment that can help make daily living easier, maximising independence.
Equipment for You recommends equipment, specific to your needs, that you may wish to buy. It complements the existing free equipment loan services and has been commissioned by D&G Health and Social Care Partnership.
DG Doing More has teamed up with Equipment for You to provide local information and opportunities to encourage and enable you to be more physically active.
How do I become more physically active?
If you are interested in being more physically active but don’t know how to start, the DG Doing More website provides lots of advice and support.
The DG Doing More Physical Activity Tool will give you some local ideas about what might encourage you to be active. Ideas are based on your responses to 5 multiple choice questions.
There are programmes available across Dumfries and Galloway for people living with a physical, sensory or learning disability. For more information on current programmes please visit the Disability Sport page on DG Doing More and the associated Facebook page. For further information please email disabilitysport@dumgal.gov.uk
NHS Inform & other societies provides a range of helpful physical activity advice plus specific information on:
- Benefits of being active
- Why we should sit less
- How to stay motivated to keep active
- Choosing exercises to do
- Keeping active in later life
- Keeping active in pregnancy
- Getting active after the birth | Ready Steady Baby!
- Osteoporosis | NHS inform
The NHS provide some fitness advice for wheelchair users:
How to do I improve my strength and balance?
Strength and balance exercises can help people of all ages stay steady, maintain bone density, improve balance and reduce joint pain.
The Council’s Active Communities Service delivers a range of fun, safe and inclusive physical activity programmes that will help you stay active, independent and meet new people. A member of the Active Communities Team will be able to advise you about what classes might be right for you, please email – Active.Communities@dumgal.gov.uk
Alternatively, NHS Inform have a series of online videos that will help you improve your strength and balance at home.
How can I stay active or move more at home?
Active Together have compiled a list of ways to stay active at home. It contains lots of information and ideas on how to keep yourself healthy and active whilst staying at home or working from home.
The Activity Alliance (Disability Inclusion Sport) have compiled a list of useful exercise advice, workouts, videos and activity guides. This helps everyone to move more while at home or when going outside for regular activity.
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has created 6 simple exercises to help older adults stay active at home.
Where can I go to be physically active?
Looking for ideas about local opportunities to be physically active, the DG Doing More website provides a directory of activities including individual and group based, formal and informal activities such as walking, cycling, sport, fitness and wellbeing.
For the most updated information please visit the Active Communities Facebook page.
(Updated 13 November 2025)