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Source: Sport England 02.12.21
https://www.sportengland.org/news/implementation-plan-years-2-4-uniting-movement-published
https://www.sportengland.org/why-were-here/uniting-movement/implementation-plan-years-2-4-2022-25
Sport England has published the next three years of the ten-year Uniting the Movement strategy 2022-2025, describing the strategy to transform lives and communities through sport and physical activity
Building on the lessons learned from their work throughout the pandemic, Sport
Source: Sustrans 01.12.21
ni-ast-2020-21-summary-report.pdf
Sustran’s Active School Travel Programme in Northern Ireland has increased the number of children walking, wheeling and cycling to school, under a programmed funded by the Public Health Agency and the Department for Infrastructure
Schools’ officers worked with more than 200 schools to buck the worrying trend of most primary age schoo
Source: Gov.uk 04.12.21
https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/research/valuing-the-mental-health-benefits-of-woodlands/
A report published by Forest Research during ‘National Tree Week’ has quantified the health and wellbeing benefits of the UK’s woodlands, for the first time ever. New research proves immense benefits of trees and woodlands for people’s physical and mental health and is estima
Source: Activity Alliance 23.11.2021
https://www.activityalliance.org.uk/news/6632-activity-alliance-annual-survey-update-for-2022
The national Activity Alliance’s Annual Disability and Activity Survey for 2021-22, which tracks disabled people’s perceptions and experiences of sport and physical activity has revealed the stark impact of COVID-19 on activity levels.
Key findings include almost 25% disabled people stated that they had not received enough information about ho
Source: Activity Alliance 24.11.2021
Get Yourself Active, Durham University and Sport England have launched the Moving Social Work programme website, which aims to create resources and co-produce strategies for the education of social workers.
This initiative is designed to equip social workers with the resources and tools to promote physical education to people with a disability
Source: Sport England 25.11.2021
https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-campaign-promotes-activity-pregnant-women-and-new-mums
A new campaign entitled ‘Active Mums Start With You’ has been launched to help equip healthcare professionals with the resources they need to speak about physical activity with pregnant women and new mums.
It encourages GPs, midwives and health visitors to proactively talk to and advise pregnant women and new mothers about activity and provide advice if they’re unsure o
Source: Active your class EU Nov 2021
https://www.activateyourclass.eu/
Activate_Curriculum_digital.pdf
A new European physically active learning (PAL) teacher training curriculum has been launched. The curriculum has been developed as part of a six nation partnership project, called ACTivate. The objective of the project is to co-create, with teachers and other school stakeholders, an innovative European-wide open access PAL education programme, web portal and community of practice.
The curri
Source: NCSEM 30.11.21
Loughborough University has launched a new platform that enables academics to share research ideas with scientists across the world, allowing greater collaboration and ensuring no idea is wasted.
The Research Ideas Catalogue – Knowledge and Impact (RIC-KI) website has been created by the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, and is initially focussed on
Source: UK Active 22.11.2021
ukactive's National Fitness Day was kicked off on Wednesday 22 September in London with the support of the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport, Olympic diving gold medallist Matty Lee and Paralympic legend Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
According to new figures National Fitness Day 2021 the physical activity sector inspired 22.67 million pe
Source: Sport England 17.11.2021
https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-funding-help-secure-commonwealth-games-legacy-west-midlands
Sport England has announced that £6.5 million pounds from the National Lottery will be used to improve facilities and increase access to community sports in the West Midlands as part of a legacy from the Commonwealth Games in 2022.
This money is part of a wider investment of more than £30 million into Birmingham 2022, which is dedicated to upgrading physical activity
Source: NHS 16.11.2021
https://www.england.nhs.uk/2021/11/specialist-clinics/
The NHS is set to open 15 new specialist clinics in England to provide intensive support for obese children and young people. Obesity affects one in five children in the UK and can increase the likelihood of a child developing serious health issues such as 2 diabetes, liver conditions, and early heart disease. Severely obese children can also develop difficulties such as breathing problems, sleep issues and mental he
Source: Richmond group of charities Nov 2021
https://richmondgroupofcharities.org.uk/taskforce-multiple-conditions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMfzZVVtz2A&t=3s
Our overarching aim is for people with multiple long-term health problems to live as well as possible for as long as possible, because the followi
Source: Sports Marketing Surveys
SMS_WOMENS_JOURNEY_REPORT_NOV_2021-compressed.pdf
This report looks at how women’s experiences of different sports change through their life stages and identifies opportunities for the sector to help more women enjoy a longer and more connected sporting journey. We hope the insights in the report will help to change the narrative in women’s sport from “I wish I had returned sooner” to “I returned as soon as I was ready!”
Source: Sported 08.11.2021
https://sported.org.uk/community-pulse-october-2021-results/
The latest piece of Sported research, based on answers from 437 grassroots sports groups across the UK, has found that far fewer young people are attending their sports groups since the Covid-19 pandemic started.
The issue of encouraging young people to
Source: Chartered society of physiotherapy 10.11.2021
Neuro Heroes has been recognised for its engaging exercise provision and building of a UK-wide community by winning the person-centred care category in the UK Parkinson’s Excellence Network Awards. Founded a year ago by physiotherapists Laura Douglas and Anna Kharin Neuro Heroes organised virtual exercise sessions during the pandemic f
Source: Activity Alliance 10.11.2021
The Sensory Alliance has been awarded a grant from the Tackling Inequalities Fund to support older people with sensory impairments become more active.
The project will initially focus on the boroughs Barnet, Bromley, Bexley, and Croydon, but it is open to anyone over the age of 45 in London who has a sensory impairment. Individuals who register for
Source: Association for physical activity 15.11.2021
The Association for Physical Education (afPE) is set to deliver pilot in partnership with United Learning. The 18-month programme will see PE trialled as a core subject across a selection of the group’s primary and secondary academies.
Edward Timpson, Chair of the afPE Taskforce, has announced the launch of a new pilot
Source: Sport England 10.11.2021
https://www.sportengland.org/news/guidance-help-leisure-facilities-appeal-more-women
New guidance from Sport England aims to help gym and leisure facilities become more welcoming to women and girls in a bid to narrow the gender activity gap. The latest Active Lives report shows men continue to be more regularly active than women, which is why the This Girl Can campaign partnered with ukactive to produce the guidance.
Developed over nine months and using extensi
Source: Gov.uk 02.11.2021
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/physical-activity-data-tool-november-2021-update
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/physical-activity
New active travel data has been added to the Physical Activity tool from mid-November 2019 to mid-November 2020.
The Physical Activity tool brings together data on physical activity and on related risk factors and conditions such as obesity and diabetes for the whole of England. The tool presents data at local level to promo
Source:Sport England 05.11.2021
A major review of scientific evidence and expert clinical consensus has found physical activity is safe – even for people living with long-term health conditions. The findings offer guidance for healthcare professionals that physical activity can be used to manage long-term health conditions and lead to more people being encouraged to become active.
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