New Partnership Working To Boost The Region's Fitness and and Activity Levels.
A drive to get the people of the West Midlands more active, fitter and healthier is being spearheaded by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).
The Dorset Leadership Academy completes its 8th year
Bryanston School hosted the Dorset Leadership Academy on 17th December with hundreds of young people from Dorset schools being enthusiastically trained in a variety of leadership roles.
Active Black Country Launches Pioneering Insight Hub
Active Black Country, the strategic lead for sport and physical activity across the Black Country has developed an online insight hub as a platform to share learnings generated from across four key themes of Communities, Education, Health and Wellbeing and Workforce, Skills and Employment.
New Films Released to Inspire More Disabled People to Get Active!
A series of short films have been released to help encourage more disabled people in Northamptonshire to get active. The films which are part of a project entitled ‘See Active Be Active’ have been created by Screen Northants in partnership with Northamptonshire Sport and Northamptonshire Federation of Disability Sport. Funded by grants obtained from Northampton Borough Council, Tesco’s/Groundworks Bags of Help and Local Giving.
First-ever ‘train workout class’ comes to the North West as part of special celebration
A campaign celebrating women in the sport and physical activity workforce, which also aims to inspire more women to join it, is in the throes of its exciting 2019 Northern Tour
Pride in Our Workforce survey is now live!
In 2016, over 55% of the LGBT+ community was not active enough to maintain good health.1 Energise Me want to understand why and improve their experiences. Through our survey, we’ll explore the impact the physical activity and sport workforce has on LGBT+ participation.
Sport students set to sprint ahead following new partnership agreement with NSport
This week, Northamptonshire Sport, the county’s Active Partnership, officially endorsed two of the University’s most popular sport degrees in Sport Development and Physical Education and Sport Coaching.
First Community Projects to Benefit From £2 million Cycling and Walking Fund Revealed
The first community projects to benefit from a £2 million fund set up by Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) to improve streets for cycling and walking have been announced.
£370K of National Lottery funding to reduce social isolation across Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Sports Partnership Herefordshire and Worcestershire is today celebrating after being awarded £370,987 from The National Lottery Community Fund to support work in reducing social isolation across the two counties.
The Bigger Picture
It’s now over a couple of years since the most recent strategies from the government and Sport England about how to get people more active. They signalled a sea-change in our focus and the way we work.