Tuesday, 11 October 16: Oxygen Freejumping, Southampton’s favourite trampoline park, and hundreds of jumping locals came out and ‘freejumped’ to their hearts content in support of World Mental Health Day donating 100 hours of freejumping to Solent Mind.
To help the charity in its campaign for better mental health across the region, Oxygen challenged local freejumpers over the weekend to snap a selfie in the park and share to all of their friends. For every selfie Oxygen pledged to donate a freejumping session to Solent Mind.
Setting out on Friday with a target of 100 hours, after the last jump on Monday over freejumpers had reached the target showing their support, and so true to its word Oxygen has donated 100 freejumping sessions.
Melanie Parker, business development director at Solent Mind said: “Solent Mind is thrilled that some of the people using our local Wellbeing Centres and attending local Mental Health Peer Support Groups will be able to enjoy a complimentary trampolining session. Thank you Oxygen for helping to raise awareness of the vital link between physical and mental health.”
Sarah Webb, general manager at Oxygen Freejumping Southampton said, “We are so impressed by how our freejumpers turned up and jumped to support World Mental Health Day. The support doesn’t stop here as we now have a great opportunity to keep on supporting Solent Mind, we have pledged 100 freejumping sessions and can’t wait to have them down for a jump”.
Oxygen Southampton is a result of a £1.6m investment and employs over 60 local people. The park offers Freejumping fun for all ages, Little O’s sessions for under 5s and Kids parties, which will guarantee playground respect! Fitness classes are available for anyone wanting to find a different way of getting fitter, whilst the School of Trampolining supports anyone to jump higher and higher. More activities are available at the park including dodgeball tournaments, DJ nights and much more.
