loops Let’s chat

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Because health and recovery start with connection.

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There’s Strength
in Connection

All the evidence points the same way. People in better health tolerate cancer treatment better, recover better, and feel better.

Right now, programmes that help people prepare for treatment (prehabilitation) and recover from it (rehabilitation) mostly live inside hospitals. We think they belong everywhere. So, we’re taking them out into communities, accessible to everyone, close to home.

Because people tell us something else, too. Change is easier when you’re with others like you. To get fit with, to laugh or cry with, to swap notes with.

That’s why we train people with personal experience of cancer to lead and coach local Health Loops. At its heart, this is neighbours in similar situations being there for one another.

So, the person who’s been there becomes the person who’s there for someone else. That’s the Loop.

Together We Can

We’re just getting started and we’re building this from the ground up. We want our Loops to be broad and inclusive. No matter who you are or where you come from, there’s a place for you here. Want to hear more, or be part of it from the beginning?

Let’s Chat

No one should go through hard times alone

“I get a lot more out of talking to people that have been on the journey. If you’ve actually lived it, listening to that person is sometimes better.” Focus Group, 2026

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What’s a Loop?

A Loop is a local group, led by a trained coach who’s experienced cancer themselves. Together, people prepare for treatment and recover from it. Moving, eating well, and looking out for one another.

We’re starting in Dorset. Then, loop by loop, we grow.

Who’s Behind Loops

Venetia Wynter-Blyth, founder of Loops, smiling — **Venetia Wynter-Blyth**
Founder

I’ve been a cancer nurse for 30 years. As a consultant nurse at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, I built PREPARE, one of the NHS’s first prehabilitation programmes, helping people get ready, and recover, from cancer treatment. It won awards. The evidence was published. But more importantly, it worked. People did better.

The problem was not everyone could reach it. And most of us spend most of our lives at home, in our communities, not in hospitals.

Over the years I’ve also learned that having a real person in the loop matters. For motivation, for encouragement, for trust. So this is Loops. We take all that learning and work in partnership with local organisations to make better health (and outcomes) accessible for everyone.

And I’m not doing this alone. Loops is built with people who bring lived experience of cancer, specialist exercise training, multi-professional oncology expertise and co-design.

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Our Philosophy

We keep things simple. Real connections, real places. Nothing meta.

Everyone is welcome.

Experience is expertise.

No waiting lists or hoops (we hate hoops).