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Active Partnerships support local communities to stay active at home

Posted on 6th May 2020
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As we are now all staying at home more than we would like it is more important than ever that we take care of our mental and physical wellbeing, and as we know, being physically activity is one of the best ways of doing this.  

We are also seeing the role physical activity and sport can play in our communities in a wider role with some amazing acts of kindness and generosity with organisations working together for the good of the local people.

Active Partnerships have responded quickly to the current crisis, working with partners to understand the problems and challenges being faced in their locality, building on existing connections and insight to come up with effective collective solutions and innovative ways to encourage people and communities to keep moving.

 

All Active Partnerships have set up web pages to highlight some local and national resources and ideas that people can access regardless of previous levels of activity and some Partnerships like Active Essex are including live weekly activity schedules. All Active Partnerships are also supporting Sport England’s campaign Join the Movement which gives people fun and creative ideas on how to get active at home and share their own ideas using #StayInWorkOut.

Active Partnerships are also conscious that people may not have access to online activities so have been working with community organisations like food banks, housing associations, coronavirus support groups to provide equipment and creative ideas to encourage everyone to get active and keep moving. This is especially important as a recent Sport England survey revealed that older people and people on low incomes are two groups who are finding it more difficult than normal to be active during the outbreak. 

Below are just some examples but there are many more across the Partnerships. Please contact your local Active Partnership to see what is happening in your area.  

 

Older Adults

 Online resources are not always as useful for this demographic so SASP have been using priority shopping hours in local supermarkets, housing support officers and coronavirus volunteer groups to distribute resistance bands and exercise programmes amongst other useful items to those over 70. Over 2,000 packs have been distributed after a successful pilot in Minehead. 

 Feedback included: ‘Thank you so much, my mum was so grateful for the pack and wanted to make sure I thanked you for doing it.  She said in her message today that she is going to take over from The Green Goddess with her exercise routines’. Their GP Referral clients at The Beach Hotel fitness suite which SASP operate, have also been given the opportunity for telephone support to encourage them to keep moving in ways that are right for them.

GreaterSport have also produced leaflets for people who aren't currently active or who are less physically able to do higher intensity activity, based on strength and balance based activities the partnership have linked with adult social care to ensure they are distributed to relevant people. GreaterSport’s super six leaflet can be found here.  

North Yorkshire Sport, working with North Yorkshire County Council as part of their Universal Plus service. This will provide additional support to people who are not part of the shielded community but need more help. They have put together activity packs for older people, families and young people. 

 

Families

 A number of Partnerships have launched weekly challenges for families. This includes Wesport who have launched a Weekly Activity Schedule and #ActivityBingo resource as a fun way for families to maintain their health & wellbeing at home.  The aim is to produce some hard copies to have distributed with foodbanks. 

WASP are in also in discussions with local foodbanks about linking in an equipment loan scheme to help families and individuals keep active.  

The Active Partnership for Northumberland and Tyne & Wear have created 2,400 physical activity packs containing a variety of items for creating indoor and outdoor games and activities.They have teamed up with the local authorities to deliver the packs to ensure they reach the families which are most in need of extra support.  

Pregnant Women

 #BeFit4Baby – Free ‘crisis content’ for mums-to-be via a collaboration including MSP and Active Cheshire . Having spotted a gap in provision for pregnant women self-isolating or social distancing when it comes to availability of free online workout content, an existing collaborative has quickly mobilised to put something in place. Active Cheshire, MSP, Cheshire and Merseyside Women’s and Children’s Partnership and Cheshire and Merseyside Maternity Voices Network were already working together around early years physical activity, but have shifted focus to meet an immediate need in these unusual times. 


The result is twice-weekly live and on-demand #BeFit4Baby video content catering for pregnant women and allowing them to #StayInWorkOut . More details at https://www.merseysidesport.com/be-fit-4-baby/ and https://www.activecheshire.org/news/mums-lockdown-project/

 

Young People 

 #ThisIsPE – A campaign designed and created in Yorkshire to support teachers, parents and carers to teach physical education has received national recognition from the Department for Education. Led by Yorkshire Sport Foundation, and supported by Association for Physical Education, North Yorkshire Sport, the Youth Sport Trust and Active Partnerships, uses specialist teachers of PE from across the county to film two-minute videos with activities that can be replicated at home, all linked to the primary PE curriculum.

Videos will be posted at 1pm on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  You don’t need to be in PE kit and you don’t need sports equipment. All of the videos will use things that you can find around the home

Birmingham Sport - Commonwealth Challenge. Sport Birmingham have created a free resource that links to the curriculum and enables families to earn sports equipment for their primary school by being active at home linked to the commonwealth games. 

 Active Partnership are also running virutal school games providing lots of fun competitions to keep children active, some examples include Active Lancashire, North Yorkshire Sport, Active Sussex, Active Humber, Energise Me and Living Sport amongst many others.  Visit your local Active Partnership for more information. Other Partnerships such as Leciester-Shire and Rutland Sport have joined with sport clubs to provide some fun competitions like the Active Foxes challenge.  

 

 Active Transport

As well as encouraging people to keep active at home Active Partnerships have also been working with community groups and bike shops to support key workers and those self isolating to receive medical supplies. Active Lancashire, have supported an initiative involving Love to ride, Connecting East Lancashire and Lancashire County Council, to donate 12 bikes to NHS workers from Blackburn and Burnley Hospital Trusts, with many more to come. Active Oxfordshire have also helped support Windrush Bike Project, and are now working with more partners to launch a new project providing bikes for key workers across Oxford city.

Active Oxfordshire have supported cycling and running clubs to help deliver routine medicines to those under lockdown. Adapted from a Bristol programme to local circumstance in Banbury, Bicester and Oxford.

 SASP Jump Start are offering teenagers 1:1 bike maintenance through a video link to help them keep their bikes in good working order as for many of them this is their key to their once a day physical activity.

 

Join the Movement

 Sport England's 'Join the Movement' campaign gives people fun and creative ideas on how to get active at home and encourage them to share their own experiences and join the movement online. Active Partnerships are all supporting the campaign and sharing creative ways you're getting active . https://www.sportengland.org/news/join-movement

 

Mayathon – Be Active, Stay Well, Support a Friend 

 Active Partnership are promoting a new free app that helps people feel connected. The app encourages people to buddy-up virtually with a friend and support each other to so 26 minutes of exercise a day. For more information visit https://mayathon.com/

  

Supporting the Sector

All Active Partnerships are providing support, advice and guidance to organisations that help deliver physical activity across their areas. This has included running webinars to help provide ideas and share good practice of how to remain connected and also support and provide guidance on funding available. For more infomation organisatiosn should contact their local Active Partnerships.

 

Active Partnerships Stay At Home Webpages

 To find out more hints and tips on how to stay active in your local area contact you Active Partnership http://www.activepartnerships.org/active-partnerships

 

For more information please contact Nicki Couzens ncouzens@ActivePartnerships.org

 

 

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