August 23, 2021
Lockdown restrictions have ended and Orfi Active is up and running. Here we tell you all you need to know about a sports app that changes the industry.
July 26, 2021
With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in full swing, we’ve decided to give a quick guide of a few showcase events, and let you know where to try them out for yourselves.
June 21, 2021
With the weight of lockdown putting a strain on food banks across the country, we spoke to Football for Foodbanks, a football community based in Manchester aiming to create inclusive sessions, while also combating the issue of food poverty.
May 24, 2021
With sports and fitness sessions returning across Manchester, we want to highlight some of the most accessible sports groups to join in the city.
April 26, 2021
At Orfi Active, we're committed to making sports and fitness easy to find, join and play. That's why we want to highlight one issue putting the long-term future of physical activity at risk, sport's carbon footprint.
March 29, 2021
After an extremely tough year, the need to get out and active has never been higher. At Orfi Active, we’re here to make it easier to discover, organise and manage your sports and fitness sessions.
February 22, 2021
At Orfi, our goal is to help make getting active more accessible.That’s why we want to highlight some of the clubs and communities revolutionising the way anyone can get involved in sport. This time, we spoke to Play Simple Netball and Northern Titans Men's Netball Club.
January 25, 2021
At Orfi, our goal is to make getting active more accessible. That's why we want to highlight some of the clubs and communities revolutionising the way young girls and women get involved in sport.
November 18, 2020
In the midst of Lockdown 2.0, we wanted to give our advice on the best ways to keep active and healthy in the confines of your household. Fortunately, our friends over at Porch.com have come up with a useful list, detailing how you can keep healthy while working from home.
November 4, 2020
With a huge influx of new students looking to play sports in cities across the country, can more be done by local teams to increase participation in under attended sports? Trafford handball might just have found the answer.
September 30, 2020
The economic impact of the coronavirus has forced key members of the government to think of creative ways to get the country back on track. We believe that one solution has been sorely overlooked, physical activity.
August 5, 2020
With the NHS handling the unprecedented emergency of Covid-19, we ask what can be done to combat the existing health crisis in the UK to create a healthier nation and a more manageable health service.
July 2, 2020
Welcome to the companion blog to our Orfi Discovers series, in which we explore sports activities and fitness classes that you may not have heard of, but we think you’d love. This time out, we discovered softball, a sport popular across the pond in the USA, but making a big splash here in the UK.
June 26, 2020
Welcome to Active in Lockdown, a short series in which we aim to keep you updated on everything sports and fitness during these challenging times. In our latest blog, we look towards the end of lockdown, to ask how the increasing mental health slump can be solved through an active lifestyle.
June 5, 2020
Welcome to Active in Lockdown, a short series in which we aim to keep you updated on the sports and fitness events you can and cannot attend, inline with the governments updates. Our first post addresses the changes made by the government on the 1st of June.
May 27, 2020
This blog comes from our friends over at The Sporting Blog. Their blog series “I’ll start tomorrow” continues with Siobhion Spooner, whose fitness journey was motivated by a desire to improve her overall mental health, and overcome obstacles that were affecting her day to day life.
May 19, 2020
In our latest episode of Orfi Discovers, we got active and moving with the University of Manchester belly dancing society. Although typically stereotyped as a seductive style of movement, we wanted to find out if belly dancing could be beneficial for a healthy lifestyle and a new way to get healthy.
April 24, 2020
With the NHS urging the UK to stay in and workout, we've created a huge database of live workouts you can try from home. Our new 'online' feature is the only place you'll have to go to get your fitness fix.
April 8, 2020
In our latest episode of Orfi Discovers, we tried out a sport from a galaxy far far away, lightsaber fencing. Better known as ludosport, we had a lot of fun trying out the unique combat sport.
April 1, 2020
It's a pleasure to announce our second Orfi Hero, Eric Douglin. Eric battled through kidney disease to set up the Basketball World Cup Tournament UK. Here is his story.
March 28, 2020
With the country in lockdown, we thought it's a good time to suggest our favourite sports films, documentaries and events for you to watch to escape the coronavirus.
March 25, 2020
Over the past few days, we have been truly blown away by the amount of content the active community has been giving towards supporting indoor fitness. Our founder, Jonas, gives his thoughts on those people and the next steps for the Orfi Active app.
March 10, 2020
Korfball is a sport gaining a lot of popularity in schools and universities across the country. Therefore, we decided see why the mixed-sex team sport was becoming so popular.
March 6, 2020
Mike Phillips is a legend of Welsh rugby. We spoke to him to discuss how people can get active through rugby, and his views on sports and fitness within a healthy lifestyle.
February 26, 2020
With a recent spike in homophobic abuse towards LGBT+ sports teams, we spoke to Danny Silk, founder of the LGBT+ Fringe Festival, who discussed just how important LGBT focused sports and fitness groups are.
February 18, 2020
Need help finding fitness activities for your child over the half-term break? Here are our five top tips for getting your child active, healthy and happy during the holiday period.
February 13, 2020
JJ is a football referee. She’s also a Muslim woman of Somalian descent who takes to the pitch in a hijab. She’s an FA Youth Leader, and a volunteer with racism in football charity Kick It Out and football education charity Football Beyond Borders. We caught up with her to hear her story.
February 12, 2020
Welcome to our first Orfi Discovers blog, a series in which we give our final thoughts and scores on the sports we've tried. In our first blog, we give you all the information you need to go and try out Basketball.
February 4, 2020
To explain exactly why Orfi Active is needed, we looked into the words of Tim Hollingsworth, chief executive of Sport England, who explained the significance of making sports and fitness more accessible and easy to join.
January 29, 2020
According to the British Active Student Survey, students aren't getting enough exercise. We decided to take a closer look at the stats to see if Orfi Active could solve this troubling problem.
January 24, 2020
RunWildMCR is a student running group from the University of Manchester. We spoke to their president, Thomas Lewis, to find out more about the running group and how exercise in a community can be extremely beneficial.
January 22, 2020
We are delighted to announce our first Orfi Ambassador, International netballer Laura Malcolm. We caught up with Laura to discuss all things netball, including her own netball coaching business, Maias Netball.
January 20, 2020
The new year festivities have just ended, and now it's time for the hard work to begin. We've come up with five top tips that we think will help you succeed in achieving your health and fitness resolutions for 2020.
January 15, 2020
It's a pleasure to announce Paul Hildreth as our first ever Orfi Hero. As the founder of the sport VX, Paul is responsible for getting people all over the world active and healthy.
January 14, 2020
Orfi Active has launched Orfi Heroes. We are looking to find individuals in sport and fitness who go the extra mile to inspire those around them.
January 8, 2020
Orfi Active has gone public. For founder Jonas Urbonas, this has been a long time coming. Listen to and read his interpretation on the Orfi story.
October 8, 2019
With the Rugby World Cup around the corner, Orfi Active visit Manchester Rugby Club to see why a boost in participation would be a much-needed development for the sport's grassroots.
August 26, 2019
Orfi Active is an app for organising and finding sports and fitness events. And we think it’s long overdue.