96-year-old Dance On participant Margot is encouraging everyone to get active as a new Leeds City Council report investigates how more people in the city can live well for longer.

Margot credits her years of dancing with keeping her healthy and happy and is now one of the oldest members of Dance On.

Hers is one of the many voices of older people to have been captured across Leeds as part of a major in-depth council report into how people are ageing in the city.

Over 900 people aged over 50 were surveyed for this year’s Director of Public Health annual report, ‘Ageing Well: Our Lives in Leeds’, which will be presented to city health leaders at the Health and Wellbeing Board next week.

The need to keep active was one of the key findings, along with the importance of social connections and staying healthy – which Margot says are all major benefits of her dance classes.

Margot said: “Dancing has been big part of my life and it’s what’s kept me going. I really enjoy it. For me, the adrenalin starts and I just love it. It keeps me mobile because if you don’t you just stiffen up and you can’t do anything.”

Read the full interview and report, here.

Photo: Leeds City Council