Go for Life

According to research, getting and staying active has an enormous effect on our quality of life as we get older. Go for Life is the national programme for sports and physical activity for older people in Ireland.

We help groups to plan and lead physical activities and sports. Your group could get more active in fun and interesting ways. Go for Life tutors, based around the country, will come and talk to your group about getting more active, what activities groups can do and can even offer workshops to people in your group to give them the skills to run regular activities.

In 2008, Go for Life worked directly with over 35,000 people. Approximately 900 of these are PALs (Physical Activity Leaders) who then run sports and physical activity sessions among their own groups, helping the numbers who benefit from Go for Life to multiply rapidly.  

We also run a small grants scheme that could buy your group some new equipment, get you an instructor for a few classes or can cover some of your running costs. In 2008, over 700 groups received small grants for this purpose.

Go for Life is an Age & Opportunity initiative, funded by the Irish Sports Council. It runs in partnership with the Health Service Executive Health Promotion Units and the Local Sports Partnerships. For a full list of those partners, follow this link.