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Blog: Creating a Better World Means Asking Better Questions

The social sector is being called to step into this moment and create a future that is dramatically different from our past. Will we choose to ask the questions traditional planning has encouraged us to ask, guided by the scarcity-driven assumption that the best we can do is react to our problems? Or will we ask questions that remove our blinders, revealing the whole picture of what is possible, and the dominoes that will turn that potential into reality? Source: SSIR, July 2020

Gear Change: A bold vision for cycling and walking

The recent COVID-19 restrictions have profoundly impacted the way people live, work and travel as evidenced by the public’s desire to be more active, and the rise in popularity of cycling and walking (Sport England, 2020). Now, we can embed those changes in people’s travel behaviour, increase active travel, and transform permanently how many people move around, particularly in towns and cities. Source: gov.uk, July 2020

The Role Of Systems Thinking In Organizational Change And Development

Contemporary businesses operate in ecosystems full of interconnectedness and constant feedback loops. Mapping such complex systems helps organizational leaders navigate into adaptive strategies. Source: Forbes, June 2020

UK Coaching launches new Duty to Care Toolkit

UK Coaching has launched a new toolkit that will ensure the nation’s coaches are equipped with the knowledge and skills to provide great coaching experiences to others. And support them as coaches to better look after themselves as they return to coaching after COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed. Source: Activity Alliance, July 2020

Active Ageing Forum Notes - June 2020

Our active ageing forum brings together organisations, from those providing care or services for older adults, to charities and volunteer groups. Together they share the same goal – helping older adults be active. Here are the information shared during the last meeting held on 25 June 2020.

Press release: Major new campaign encourages millions to lose weight and cut COVID-19 risk

Public Health England (PHE) launches the Better Health campaign to support people to live healthier lives and reduce their risk of serious illness, including COVID-19. Source: gov.uk July 2020

Policy paper Tackling obesity: empowering adults and children to live healthier lives

Today we are announcing a new set of policies that starts to change this environment; to empower people to make the healthier choices they want to make and give the full support of the NHS to people who are overweight and who want to lose weight. Source: gov.uk July 2020

Blog: The Treachery of Images: On the Limits of Systems Maps

While a system map is often a useful representation of a context of phenomena, it is always fundamentally incomplete. Source: LinkedIn July 2020

Developing WOW - The future of walking to school

As part of the development of WOW, our flagship year-round walk to school challenge, we recently carried out extensive research with the help of EdComms. We spoke to around 500 schools (including users and non-users of the programme). Source: Living Streets, July 2020

Loneliness in children and young people in the UK

The age group who were the loneliest were those aged 16–24 years. In addition, 11% of children aged 10–15 years and 14% of those aged 10–12 years said they were often lonely. Source: The Lancet, August 2020

Global, regional, and national estimates of the population at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions in 2020: a modelling study

About one in five individuals worldwide could be at increased risk of severe COVID-19, should they become infected, due to underlying health conditions, but this risk varies considerably by age. Source: The Lancet, June 2020

Women in Sport research highlights urgency to prioritise sport and exercise for women post-lockdown

The latest research from Women in Sport has shown that women have been disproportionately impacted by the lockdown, especially those women with children juggling home-life, work, and schooling, and women aged 70 plus who have suffered the greatest isolation. Source: Women in Sport, July 2020

Coasts have a therapeutic effect on people, boosting wellbeing and mental health says Defra

Coasts have a therapeutic effect on people, boosting wellbeing and mental health, the evidence statement drawing on 46 peer-reviewed papers and published by the Environment Department (Defra) said Source: The Ecologist, July 2020

Stop confusing BLM and D&I. They are not the same thing

In a business context, organisations don’t lose out on amazing black talent because of a lack of D&I initiatives. They lose out because of unconscious racism, biases and systems that hold the talent back. Source: Campaign Live, June 2020

New research shows £5.5bn fund needed to level up access to urban green space as part of UK’s green recovery

As the Prime Minister set out his ambition for the country’s recovery in the West Midlands last week, the National Trust, the Mayor of the West Midlands, Sustrans, Create Streets and local council leaders[3] have written to him urging a £5.5billion commitment to an urban green infrastructure fund to level up access to urban green space as part of his “infrastructure revolution”. Source: National Trust, July 2020

New engagement factsheet on supporting low-income households released

This new factsheet provides insight on how deprivation affects some disabled people’s lives. It explores the relationship between poverty and disability. And, how both the causes and consequences of deprivation can impact a person’s desire, choice and opportunity to be active. Source: Activity Alliance, July 2020

British Blind Sport take their first steps right across the country!

BBS are pleased to announce the expansion of First Steps across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. First Steps is a project conceived by British Blind Sport to empower and encourage children between the ages of 3 – 11 years old with a visual impairment to develop their early developmental movement skills and to become physically active. Source: British Blind Sport

The pandemic will change the way our homes and offices are built

The new normal will mean a reinvented workplace designed to mitigate risk of a coronavirus resurgence Source: Wired June 2020

Sport England research - Physical Activity of Children and Young People during Covid-19

Most parents have reported their children were doing some activity – only 9% of adults said the children in their households were doing no physical activity and exercise on a typical day. But only 19% said they were meeting the Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines and doing an hour a day

Around one million downloads of fitness app during lockdown as people stay fit

New figures show that downloads of Public Health England’s ‘Couch to 5k’ app skyrocketed over the last three months. Source: NHS, July 2020

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