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May 24, 2021

Active in Manchester: The Best Sport Sessions to Join in the City

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

Sport's Carbon Footprint: Changing the future of physical fitness

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

Orfi Active: Revolutionising Sports and Fitness in 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

Inclusivity in Netball: An accessible game for men and women

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

Hackney Laces: Changing the Game in Women's Football

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

Healthy habits at home: How to keep healthy while working from home

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

Manchester Handball: Preventing the 'university problem'

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 value of sport: Can physical activity save the economy?

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

An active lifestyle: The best social prescription for keeping healthy

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

Orfi Discovers: Softball

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

Active in Lockdown: How an active lifestyle can help your mental health

‍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

Active in Lockdown: The Do's and Don'ts

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

Fitness Motivation : Siobhion Spooner - Mental Health and Fitness

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

Orfi Discovers: Belly Dancing

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

Live Online Workouts: Helping you stay home and stay active

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

Orfi Discovers: Lightsaber Fencing

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

Orfi Hero: Eric Douglin

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

Top 5 sports films you should be watching in lockdown

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

Covid-19: Staying active during the crisis

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

Orfi Discovers: Korfball

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: Getting active through rugby

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

LGBT+ Fringe Festival: Making sport safe, inclusive and fun

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

Getting Children Active: The best half-term activities to get your child active and healthy

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

Jawahir Roble: Referee, Inspiration

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

Orfi Discovers: Basketball

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

Why is Orfi Active needed?

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

Student Health Survey: Why aren't university students getting enough exercise?

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: The University running group getting students on the move

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

Orfi Ambassador: Laura Malcolm

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

2020: The year you finally achieve your health and fitness New Year’s resolutions

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

Orfi Heroes: Paul Hildreth

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 Heroes: Orfi Active launches campaign to recognise inspiring people in sport

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 10, 2020

Orfi Active: All Your Questions Answered

Orfi Active has launched. Here we tell you all you need to know about a sports app that changes the industry.

January 8, 2020

Jonas Talks: "Orfi Active has launched – let me tell you our story"

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

Can the Rugby World Cup inject new life into the sport's grassroots?

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

Welcome to Orfi Active

Orfi Active is an app for organising and finding sports and fitness events. And we think it’s long overdue.

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