sport england - Research library - 'We can move' insight2024-03-29T09:19:53Zhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/feed/tag/sport+englandThis Girl Can publishes guide to recruiting female volunteershttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/this-girl-can-publishes-guide-to-recruiting-female-volunteers2022-06-14T10:27:40.000Z2022-06-14T10:27:40.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10568100880?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 02.06.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/girl-can-publishes-guide-recruiting-female-volunteers" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/girl-can-publishes-guide-recruiting-female-volunteers</a></p>
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<p>The award-winning This Girl Can campaign has published guidance on how to boost female volunteer numbers in the sport and physical activity sector.</p>
<p>Marking Volunteers’ Week, the ‘Guide to recruit and retain female volunteers’ highlights key principles and learnings in how to avoid what Sport England has found is a common problem – attracting and retaining female volunteers.</p>
<p>A Sport England-funded project recently revealed that a key partner organisation was struggling in their female-only volunteer programme.</p>
<p>Further research found this organisation to not be alone in their troubles, as such they’ve worked with partners to collate best practice from across the sector about helping sport and physical activity organisations recruit and retain more women volunteers.</p></div>Jubilee activity fund gives out more than £4 millionhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/jubilee-activity-fund-gives-out-more-than-4-million2022-06-14T10:25:46.000Z2022-06-14T10:25:46.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10568097880?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 04.06.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/jubilee-activity-fund-gives-out-more-ps4-million" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/jubilee-activity-fund-gives-out-more-ps4-million</a></p>
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<p>Sport England’s Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Activity Fund has committed more than £4 million of National Lottery funding to more than 650 organisations since its launch in January.</p>
<p>The fund, which is still open, was created to mark and help celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year by supporting projects that bring a community together and provide opportunities for people who may be less physically active.</p>
<p>Now the fund has allocated £4,214,865 between 652 community sport and physical activity organisations across England.</p></div>Partner toolkit for This Girl Can and Strava partnership publishedhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/partner-toolkit-for-this-girl-can-and-strava-partnership-publishe2022-05-25T09:22:30.000Z2022-05-25T09:22:30.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10514413300?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 17.05.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/partner-toolkit-girl-can-x-strava-partnership-published" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/partner-toolkit-girl-can-x-strava-partnership-published</a></p>
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<p>Sport England has published a toolkit to help partners get involved and support women in their local area to get moving again, ahead of the launch of This Girl Can and Strava’s ‘Make Your Comeback’ campaign.</p>
<p>The partnership with Strava launches to consumers later this month and will see the <em>Make Your Comeback</em> and <em>This Girl Can Club</em> introduced on the fitness tracking platform. The club will be the first ever on Strava, providing a supportive space for women to take that first back towards getting active again</p>
<p>The toolkit which includes posters, social media posts and ideas for how a range of organisations can get involved, allows This Girl Can supporters to highlight what they are doing and spread the word to their community – inspiring women to get active again after taking a break from it.</p></div>Funding for governing bodies to drive participation through innovationhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/funding-for-governing-bodies-to-drive-participation-through-innov2022-05-24T09:33:26.000Z2022-05-24T09:33:26.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10511405861?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 12.05.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/funding-governing-bodies-drive-participation-through-innovation" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/funding-governing-bodies-drive-participation-through-innovation</a></p>
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<p>Sports bodies are being helped to use innovative, non-traditional or digital ideas to drive participation thanks to a £6.5 million investment of National Lottery funding.</p>
<p>The money comes as part of Sport England’s £35m commitment to creating a lasting national impact from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and will be split between the 21 national governing bodies involved in the Games.</p>
<p>With a focus on improving participation rates in areas of England where activity levels are the lowest, the fund is aimed at helping governing bodies to develop accessible opportunities to engage with disadvantaged communities.</p></div>New partner funding continues commitment to tackling inequalitieshttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/new-partner-funding-continues-commitment-to-tackling-inequalities2022-05-24T09:19:21.000Z2022-05-24T09:19:21.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10511349058?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 10.05.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-partner-funding-continues-commitment-tackling-inequalities" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-partner-funding-continues-commitment-tackling-inequalities</a></p>
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<p>Sport England is investing a further £360 million of National Lottery and government funding into 78 more partners to help people in England get active and tackle long-standing inequalities within access to sport and physical activity.</p>
<p>The funding comes on the back of the £193m investment in 43 partners they announced in March and brings their total contributions to more than £550m in 121 partners.</p>
<p>The new investment model will see organisations receive funding for up to five years, in order to provide longer-term financial security that allows organisations to recover and reinvent from the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.</p></div>Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered Programmehttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/daughters-and-dads-active-and-empowered-programme2022-04-27T12:37:00.000Z2022-04-27T12:37:00.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10443386861?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Women in Sport April 22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.womeninsport.org/our-work/partnerships/daughters-and-dads/daughters-and-dads-about-the-programme/" target="_blank">https://www.womeninsport.org/our-work/partnerships/daughters-and-dads/daughters-and-dads-about-the-programme/</a></p>
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<p>Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered is a free physical activity and education programme for young girls (5-11) and their fathers/father-figures who want to be more active together.</p>
<p>It was delivered in partnership with the EFL Trust, Fatherhood Institute and University of Newcastle (Australia) through funding from Sport England and the National Lottery Fund. It is a programme proven to support girls, fathers, father-figures and their families to become more physically active, increase sport skills proficiencies and improve girls’ confidence, resilience, social and emotional well-being.</p>
<p>Over the last 3 years, the programme was delivered by six club community organisations and has helped over 400 girls, fathers, father figures and their families in the UK strengthen father-daughter relationships and break down barriers that are preventing girls from taking part in physical activity</p></div>This Mum Moves set to expand after pilot shows improved confidence among healthcare professionalshttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/this-mum-moves-set-to-expand-after-pilot-shows-improved-confidenc2022-04-27T12:04:21.000Z2022-04-27T12:04:21.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10443307693?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Uk Active 06.04.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ukactive.com/news/this-mum-moves-set-to-expand-after-pilot-shows-improved-confidence-among-healthcare-professionals-to-promote-physical-activity/" target="_blank">https://www.ukactive.com/news/this-mum-moves-set-to-expand-after-pilot-shows-improved-confidence-among-healthcare-professionals-to-promote-physical-activity/</a></p>
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<p>More women across the nation are set to benefit from being physically active during and after pregnancy, as ukactive and Sport England announce the results of the <em>This Mum Moves</em> pilot project and plans for its expansion.</p>
<p><em>This Mum Moves</em> was created to support women to continue to enjoy and benefit from an active lifestyle during pregnancy and after childbirth by enabling and upskilling healthcare professionals to confidently promote and provide advice around physical activity within routine pre- and post-natal care.</p>
<p>During a three-year pilot, <em>This Mum Moves</em> worked with NHS trusts in Sheffield, Sunderland, Plymouth, Cambridge, and Bexley, to deliver training to more than four hundred healthcare professionals. Following the piloting of training materials and resources, ukactive and Sport England have established a sustainable model which now will be taken forward.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/world-health-day-supporting-people-health-conditions-be-active" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/world-health-day-supporting-people-health-conditions-be-active</a></p>
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<p>On World Health Day (7th April), Sport England with the Richmond Group of Charities, called on the sport and physical activity sector to help more people with long term health conditions to be active, knowing the benefits it can have on their health.</p>
<p>Sport England, has launched a new resource pack that collates the latest research on the barriers to activity for people with long-term health conditions, highlights key benefits of promoting physical activity to this group and provides examples of practical changes to support improved accessibility and inclusion.</p>
<p>More than 40% of the adult population live with at least one long-term health condition and this group is twice as likely to be inactive as those without conditions. The removal of coronavirus restrictions presents an opportunity for the sport and physical activity sector to reinvent and ensure they are meeting the needs of the least active people, who live with multiple health conditions.</p></div>Scarlett Moffatt teams up with This Girl Can classeshttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/scarlett-moffatt-teams-up-with-this-girl-can-classes2022-04-04T13:06:09.000Z2022-04-04T13:06:09.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10260885498?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 22.03.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/scarlett-moffatt-teams-girl-can-classes" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/scarlett-moffatt-teams-girl-can-classes</a></p>
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<p>This Girl Can and EMD UK have partnered with television presenter Scarlett Moffatt to help more women re-discover the joy of being active by attending a This Girl Can class.</p>
<p>Launched last year, the classes aim to tackle the ‘enjoyment gap’ as many women report viewing exercise as something to be endured rather than enjoyed.</p>
<p>This Girl Can classes are on a mission to tackle that enjoyment gap and continue to be made available across the country to help women rediscover the joys of getting active.</p>
<p> </p></div>New guidance to help people with long-term health conditions get activehttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/new-guidance-to-help-people-with-long-term-health-conditions-get-2022-04-04T13:04:17.000Z2022-04-04T13:04:17.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10260884077?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 23.03.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-guidance-help-people-long-term-health-conditions-get-active" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-guidance-help-people-long-term-health-conditions-get-active</a></p>
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<p>New guidance published today aims to support people with long-term health conditions to be more physically active.</p>
<p>Co-produced by Sport England, in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University and the National Centre for Sport & Exercise Medicine (NCSEM), ‘Easier to be Active’ is aimed at those working in sectors promoting, providing, delivering or connecting physical activity to people with long-term health conditions.</p>
<p>One-in-three adults currently live with a long-term health condition and more people are now developing multiple (two or more) physical or mental health conditions. </p></div>Investment into employability opportunities for young peoplehttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/investment-into-employability-opportunities-for-young-people2022-03-22T15:45:19.000Z2022-03-22T15:45:19.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10229419283?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 17.03.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/investment-employability-opportunities-young-people" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/investment-employability-opportunities-young-people</a></p>
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<p>Young people in the West Midlands will get access to new volunteering and employability boosting opportunities thanks to funding of £250,000 by Sport England and £750,000 from the National Lottery’s Community Fund (NLCF) into Gen22.</p>
<p> A legacy project run by the <a href="https://loughboroughuniversity.cmail20.com/t/j-l-zhkwjd-idilurkikr-t/">Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee</a>, <a href="https://loughboroughuniversity.cmail20.com/t/j-l-zhkwjd-idilurkikr-i/">Gen 22</a> aims to create 1,000 new opportunities for local young people to gain life skills from Games-related activities and enable those facing barriers such as parental responsibilities, or a criminal record, to contribute 30,000 hours of social action towards the Games.</p>
<p>Sport England's investment in Gen22 will see them working with six West Midlands Active Partnerships to focus in on sport and physical activity related youth social action volunteering. NLCF funding will support four ‘flagship providers’ - <a href="https://loughboroughuniversity.cmail20.com/t/j-l-zhkwjd-idilurkikr-d/">The Canal and River Trust</a>, <a href="https://loughboroughuniversity.cmail20.com/t/j-l-zhkwjd-idilurkikr-h/">StreetGames</a>, <a href="https://loughboroughuniversity.cmail20.com/t/j-l-zhkwjd-idilurkikr-k/">Groundwork</a> and <a href="https://loughboroughuniversity.cmail20.com/t/j-l-zhkwjd-idilurkikr-u/">Positive Youth Foundation</a> - to enable young people in designing and delivering youth social action projects in one of Gen22’s four focus sectors of mental health and wellbeing, physical activity, sustainability and creativity.</p></div>Partnerships announced to build movement around tackling inequalitieshttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/partnerships-announced-to-build-movement-around-tackling-inequali2022-03-15T16:03:39.000Z2022-03-15T16:03:39.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><p>Source: Sport England 10.03.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/partnerships-announced-build-movement-around-tackling-inequalities" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/partnerships-announced-build-movement-around-tackling-inequalities</a></p>
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<p>Sport England has announced the first group of 43 partners it is working with to deliver system-wide change under the Uniting the Movement Strategy to level up access to sport and physical activity across the country. Partners - who have all committed to tackling inequalities - will receive a total of £193 million of National Lottery and government funding between them, with each partner investment lasting up to five years.</p>
<p>Partners include the youth charity StreetGames, disability charity Activity Alliance, talented young athletes’ charity SportsAid, and sports’ national governing bodies from England Boxing to British Wheelchair Basketball, plus Active Partnerships working across England - from County Durham to Devon.</p>
<p>This change in the organisation’s investment model will provide longer term, upfront certainty of funding as organisations recover and reinvent from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.</p></div>More than 1 million teenage girls fall ‘out of love’ with sporthttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/more-than-1-million-teenage-girls-fall-out-of-love-with-sport2022-03-15T09:35:14.000Z2022-03-15T09:35:14.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><p>Source: Women in Sport March 2022</p>
<p><a href="https://www.womeninsport.org/press-release/more-than-1-million-teenage-girls-fall-out-of-love-with-sport/" target="_blank">https://www.womeninsport.org/press-release/more-than-1-million-teenage-girls-fall-out-of-love-with-sport/</a></p>
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<p>Ahead of International Women’s Day, Women in Sport surveyed 4,000 teenage girls and boys as part of its research work Reframing Sport for Teenage Girls, funded by Sport England. It has has found that more than one million teenage girls (43%) who once considered themselves ‘sporty’, disengage from sport following primary school. A fear of feeling judged by others (68%), lack of confidence (61%), pressures of schoolwork (47%) and not feeling safe outside (43%) were some of the reasons given for not wanting to participate for this group of girls. </p>
<p>The charity is calling for the sport, leisure, and education sectors to work harder to prevent teenage girls from gradually disengaging from sport. Activity offerings need to be reframed to cater for the changing needs of girls and make them feel they deserve to play, whatever their level of ability.</p>
<p> </p></div>New funding for School Games to reach disadvantaged young peoplehttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/new-funding-for-school-games-to-reach-disadvantaged-young-people2022-03-15T09:32:09.000Z2022-03-15T09:32:09.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><p>Source: Sport England 01.03.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-funding-school-games-reach-disadvantaged-young-people" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-funding-school-games-reach-disadvantaged-young-people</a></p>
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<p>As part of Sport England’s commitment to support the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, the organisation is investing £2m of National Lottery funds to help the 450 School Games Organisers reach 19,000 schools across the country.</p>
<p>The School Games will be delivering the United by Birmingham 2022’s mission to improve the health and wellbeing of young people, using inspiration from this summer’s Commonwealth Games.</p>
<p>Each organiser will use local data and insight to identify the inequalities faced by young people and ensure those who need it most, get help to be active. The Active Lives Survey data shows there were 94,000 fewer active children and young people in the last academic year prior to the pandemic. It also shows the young people from less affluent families were the least active.</p></div>Movement for All evaluation report publishedhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/movement-for-all-evaluation-report-published2022-02-24T09:44:38.000Z2022-02-24T09:44:38.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10149982890?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 17.02.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/movement-all-evaluation-report-published" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/movement-all-evaluation-report-published</a></p>
<p><a href="https://richmondgroupofcharities.org.uk/publications" target="_blank">https://richmondgroupofcharities.org.uk/publications</a></p>
<p>A new report is calling on organisations to work collectively in using existing insight to develop opportunities for people with long-term health conditions to be active. Produced by the Richmond Group of Charities, the report is an evaluation of its Movement for All project that began in 2018.</p>
<p>It was funded by an initial £1.3 million investment from Sport England of National Lottery money, which saw it work in partnership with the group and their charities.</p>
<p>The report has produced a number of practical tips on:</p>
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<li>delivering and evaluating physical activity projects aimed at people with long-term health conditions</li>
<li>collaboratively delivering programmes of work</li>
<li>orchestrating organisational change through the prioritisation and embedding of physical activity into ‘business as usual’ work.</li>
</ul></div>Queen's Platinum Jubilee Activity Fund launchedhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/queen-s-platinum-jubilee-activity-fund-launched2022-01-12T09:58:52.000Z2022-01-12T09:58:52.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10004908893?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 10.01.22</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/queens-platinum-jubilee-activity-fund-launched" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/queens-platinum-jubilee-activity-fund-launched</a> </p>
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<p>Sport England has launched a new £5 million fund to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee which aims to use sport and physical activity to bring communities together and tackle inequalities. The £5 million fund is part of more than £22 million of investment from the National Lottery in schemes across various sectors that will celebrate the Queen’s 70 years of service.</p>
<p>The fund will make awards of between £300 and £10,000 to community organisations in support of new projects providing opportunities for people to become more physically active. The funds can be used for things such as hiring facilities and coaching costs, or even small capital improvements. Sport England is particularly keen in funding projects that help people who may otherwise have fewer opportunities to be active and for those living in disadvantaged areas.</p></div>Six-month update on progress following race in sport reviewhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/six-month-update-on-progress-following-race-in-sport-review2022-01-06T11:39:59.000Z2022-01-06T11:39:59.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9986177893?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 21.12.21</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/six-month-update-progress-following-race-sport-review" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/six-month-update-progress-following-race-sport-review</a></p>
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<p>UK Sport and home nations sports councils have issued a statement on the progress made to make sport and physical activity more inclusive and reflective of UK society, following the publication of the Tackling Racism and Racial Inequality in Sport report in June 2021. The report found that racism existed in UK sport and resulted in ethnically diverse communities and individuals being consistently disadvantaged, discriminated against, and excluded from sport and physical activity.</p>
<p>Activities that have been undertaken across the home nations sports councils, include embedding the lessons learnt into existing organisation strategies, raising awareness levels among staff to identify inequalities and initiate change and establishing working groups to identify what and where change can occur. The process of overhauling the ways in which resources are distributed to ensure that it makes a better impact on under‐represented communities has begun.</p>
<p>The statement issued states activities are underway to change sport, but also acknowledges it is too early to say if these efforts are beginning to make a difference. </p></div>Latest statistics show commitment to protecting playing fieldshttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/latest-statistics-show-commitment-to-protecting-playing-fields2021-12-22T08:58:03.000Z2021-12-22T08:58:03.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9935196895?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 14.12.21</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/latest-statistics-show-commitment-protecting-playing-fields" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/latest-statistics-show-commitment-protecting-playing-fields</a></p>
<p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9935198856,original{{/staticFileLink}}">Sport England Field Tables 19_20.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9935199064,original{{/staticFileLink}}">Sport England regional breakdown.pdf</a></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">New statistics show that Sport England, has continued to protect and improve playing fields across the country as part of its mission to get the nation more active.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">The protection of playing fields is a key part of Sport England’s remit as a statutory consultee on planning applications. As part of planning processes, councils must refer cases to Sport England when any proposed development would affect or lead to the loss of a sports playing field. The organisation opposes all applications unless the developer can prove it’ll improve or protect community sports provision.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">The data shows:</span></p>
<p style="margin:20px 0px 0px 72px;line-height:15.75pt;text-indent:-18pt;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt;position:relative;"><span style="margin:0px;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';margin:0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">94% (1,028 out of 1,093) of concluded planning applications affecting playing fields resulted in improved or protected sports provision</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 72px;line-height:15.75pt;text-indent:-18pt;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt;position:relative;"><span style="margin:0px;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';margin:0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">in 34% of the cases where Sport England originally objected to an application, further negotiations led to an overall improvement in sports provision</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 72px;line-height:15.75pt;text-indent:-18pt;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt;position:relative;"><span style="margin:0px;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';margin:0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">of the 127 applications where we maintained our objection, 62 were either withdrawn by the applicants or refused planning permission.</span></p></div>Digital Futures report from ukactive and Sport England shows need for digital revolution in fitness and leisurehttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/digital-futures-report-from-ukactive-and-sport-england-shows-need2021-12-22T08:53:29.000Z2021-12-22T08:53:29.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9935192666?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: UK Active 14.12.21</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ukactive.com/news/digital-futures-report-from-ukactive-and-sport-england-shows-need-for-digital-revolution-in-fitness-and-leisure/" target="_blank">https://www.ukactive.com/news/digital-futures-report-from-ukactive-and-sport-england-shows-need-for-digital-revolution-in-fitness-and-leisure/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.ukactive.com/reports/digital-futures-a-review-of-the-digital-maturity-and-digital-effectiveness-of-the-uks-fitness-and-leisure-sector/" target="_blank">https://www.ukactive.com/reports/digital-futures-a-review-of-the-digital-maturity-and-digital-effectiveness-of-the-uks-fitness-and-leisure-sector/</a></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">ukactive and Sport England have announced plans to design a new knowledge programme to help fitness and leisure operators improve their digital maturity and effectiveness, in response to the sector’s first Digital Futures report’s findings.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">The programme includes a digital resource marketplace to bring experts closer to the sector, themed papers and seminars to support learning and a new self-assessment tool in the shape of the index. ukactive will also encourage suppliers within its membership to build a resource library that allows each operator to plot a clear path for growth based on its current level of digital maturity.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 15pt 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">The aim of the strategy is to help improve the application of digital by all fitness and leisure operators, to create a sector that can meet the needs and demands of everyone in the community. It also forms part of ukactive’s shared ambition for growth with the Government and partners – helping gyms, swimming pools and leisure facilities to reach more than five million new members by 2030.</span></p></div>Coronavirus challenges highlight importance of physical activity and sport for childrenhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/coronavirus-challenges-highlight-importance-of-physical-activity-2021-12-15T15:16:29.000Z2021-12-15T15:16:29.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9913088077?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 09.12.21</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/coronavirus-challenges-highlight-importance-physical-activity-and-sport-children" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/coronavirus-challenges-highlight-importance-physical-activity-and-sport-children</a></p>
<p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9913090652,original{{/staticFileLink}}">Active Lives Children and Young People Survey Academic Year 2020-21 Report.pdf</a></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Sport England’s latest Active Lives Children and Young People Survey report evidences the benefits on mental health and loneliness. Existing inequalities have widened, and new issues have arisen with boys losing active habits.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Children and young people’s activity levels continue to be negatively impacted by the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic at a time when getting active is more important than ever for their mental and physical wellbeing.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">The publication shows that while there's been no overall decrease in activity levels compared to the previous academic year, existing inequalities have widened while enjoyment and confidence in taking part are down, and there are new short-term issues that need to be considered so they don't become long-term trends.</span></p>
<p><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Positively, the results provide further evidence that active children have higher levels of mental wellbeing and illustrate the role sport and physical activity can play in supporting them amid rising levels of loneliness and declining mental health during the pandemic</span></p></div>Implementation plan for years 2-4 of Uniting the Movement publishedhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/implementation-plan-for-years-2-4-of-uniting-the-movement-publish2021-12-09T12:20:56.000Z2021-12-09T12:20:56.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9895642099?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 02.12.21</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/implementation-plan-years-2-4-uniting-movement-published" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/implementation-plan-years-2-4-uniting-movement-published</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/why-were-here/uniting-movement/implementation-plan-years-2-4-2022-25" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/why-were-here/uniting-movement/implementation-plan-years-2-4-2022-25</a></p>
<p>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</p>
<p>Building on the lessons learned from their work throughout the pandemic, Sport England will target investment, resources, and energy where it’s needed most and will have greatest impact. It will also introduce innovative ways to increase participation by listening to stakeholders to create a more level playing field and tackle the inequalities that exist for people and groups.</p>
<p>Sport England's plans include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Expansion of partnerships to focus investment and resources on communities most in need.</li>
<li>Continued delivery of the coronavirus (Covid-19) recovery and reinvention package.</li>
<li>Working with partners to target the government’s investment into community football, tennis and multi-sport facilities in places with greatest need.</li>
<li>Investment around the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to improve facilities and level up access to community sport.</li>
</ul></div>Get Yourself Active launches new Moving Social Work programme websitehttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/get-yourself-active-launches-new-moving-social-work-programme-web2021-11-30T20:02:36.000Z2021-11-30T20:02:36.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9865706272?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Activity Alliance 24.11.2021</p>
<p><a href="https://www.activityalliance.org.uk/news/6635-get-yourself-active-launches-new-moving-social-work-programme-website" target="_blank">https://www.activityalliance.org.uk/news/6635-get-yourself-active-launches-new-moving-social-work-programme-website</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This initiative is designed to equip social workers with the resources and tools to promote physical education to people with a disability, who are more inactive and suffer poorer health compared to non-disabled people.</p>
<p>Several resources, including a detailed academic summary and infographics that detail the aims and timeline for the programme were prepared as part of the launch.</p></div>New funding to help secure Commonwealth Games legacy for West Midlandshttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/new-funding-to-help-secure-commonwealth-games-legacy-for-west-mid2021-11-30T13:53:27.000Z2021-11-30T13:53:27.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9864819463?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 17.11.2021</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-funding-help-secure-commonwealth-games-legacy-west-midlands" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-funding-help-secure-commonwealth-games-legacy-west-midlands</a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This money is part of a wider investment of more than £30 million into Birmingham 2022, which is dedicated to upgrading physical activity infrastructure and boosting community connections and activity levels.</p>
<p>This investment represents a fundamental part of the ten year Uniting the Movement strategy and comes in the wake of the latest Active Lives Adult Survey which found inactivity levels in the West Midlands have worsened since the beginning of the pandemic.</p></div>Guidance to help leisure facilities appeal more to womenhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/guidance-to-help-leisure-facilities-appeal-more-to-women2021-11-21T19:51:14.000Z2021-11-21T19:51:14.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9829939876?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 10.11.2021</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/guidance-help-leisure-facilities-appeal-more-women" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/guidance-help-leisure-facilities-appeal-more-women</a></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">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.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Developed over nine months and using extensive research and insight, it includes practical guidance and checklists to help improve the engagement, experience and confidence of women and girls using gyms and other leisure facilities.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Earlier this year, in partnership with This Girl Can, ukactive commissioned Savanta ComRes to conduct a survey of more than 1,000 women and girls. The results from this, as well as those from a series of focus groups carried out by the ukactive Research Institute, informed the development of the guidance.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 15pt 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">They showed that 60% of respondents visited a fitness or leisure centre at least once a month in the past three years, but that 50% of women with experience of exercising in these settings in the past three years worry about being judged. Of those with a fear of judgement, more were concerned about being judged by other women (27%) than by men (22%).</span></p></div>Sport and physical activity must be used to level up and tackle inequalitieshttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/sport-and-physical-activity-must-be-used-to-level-up-and-tackle-i2021-11-01T12:13:10.000Z2021-11-01T12:13:10.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9756179065?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 21.10.21</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/sport-and-physical-activity-must-be-used-level-and-tackle-inequalities" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/sport-and-physical-activity-must-be-used-level-and-tackle-inequalities</a></p>
<p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9756184270,original{{/staticFileLink}}">Active lives survey.pdf</a></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on activity levels throughout England, but has been most acute across disadvantaged groups and areas of high deprivation.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Sport England’s latest Active Lives Adult Survey, published today, covers the period from mid-May 2020 to mid-May 2021, which includes periods of national and tiered restrictions introduced to counter the coronavirus pandemic. The survey period ends before all restrictions were eased in July.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Compared to 12 months earlier, there were 700,000 (-1.9%) fewer active adults and 1 million (+2%) more inactive adults between mid-May 2020 and mid-May 2021. While there are signs of recovery for activity levels as restrictions have eased, not all groups or demographics are affected or recovering at the same rate.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 15pt 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Existing inequalities have been widened, with some groups hit much harder by the pandemic than others. This is the case for women, young people aged 16-34, over 75s, disabled people and people with long-term health conditions, and those from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds. Those living in deprived areas and also those in urban areas found it harder to be active. </span></p></div>Researchers publish recommendations to enhance diversity of UK’s sports coacheshttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/researchers-publish-recommendations-to-enhance-diversity-of-uk-s-2021-10-21T09:29:34.000Z2021-10-21T09:29:34.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9721363101?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: NCSEM 18.10.21</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ncsem-em.org.uk/2021/10/18/researchers-publish-recommendations-to-enhance-diversity-of-uks-sports-coaches/" target="_blank">https://www.ncsem-em.org.uk/2021/10/18/researchers-publish-recommendations-to-enhance-diversity-of-uks-sports-coaches/</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Researchers from Loughborough University have outlined a series of recommendations to enhance the diversity of sport coaches across the UK. The Coaching for All (CFA) initiative was delivered between March 2020 and June 2021 by Sporting Communities with Loughborough appointed as its lead research partner.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">A total of 29 participants from disadvantaged communities who identified as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic or as a Refugee were recruited to the Sport England funded project.<br /> The University’s research primarily identified a series of structural and cultural barriers experienced by coaches. These included: </span></p>
<p style="margin:20px 0px 0px 72px;line-height:15.75pt;text-indent:-18pt;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt;position:relative;"><span style="margin:0px;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';margin:0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Socio-economic and cultural constraints including work, study, financial and familial pressures and the tendency for sports coaching to not be viewed as a viable voluntary activity or career pathway for some ethnically diverse communities.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 72px;line-height:15.75pt;text-indent:-18pt;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt;position:relative;"><span style="margin:0px;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';margin:0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Limited knowledge and awareness of local coaching opportunities, local coach development courses, and local coach development networks.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 72px;line-height:15.75pt;text-indent:-18pt;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt;position:relative;"><span style="margin:0px;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';margin:0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Limited availability of, and financial accessibility, to local coaching opportunities, local coach development courses and local coach development networks, and the lack of related resource and mentoring support in some sports.</span></p>
<p><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Negative experiences and exclusion when undertaking coaching and coach development, with respect to instances of racialised (and gendered) bias, stereotyping and a lack of ethnically diverse role models.</span></p></div>Three-year trend of girls reporting same barriers to physical activity in schoolshttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/three-year-trend-of-girls-reporting-same-barriers-to-physical-act2021-10-20T14:54:47.000Z2021-10-20T14:54:47.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9718735887?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Youth Sport Trust 11.10.21</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youthsporttrust.org/news-insight/news/three-year-trend-of-girls-reporting-same-barriers-to-physical-activity-in-schools" target="_blank">https://www.youthsporttrust.org/news-insight/news/three-year-trend-of-girls-reporting-same-barriers-to-physical-activity-in-schools</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Periods, low confidence, and other people watching. New data has shown that girls are continuing to report the same barriers to physical activity in schools.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Data from the Youth Sport Trust’s Girls Active programme over the last three years has revealed the barriers remain the same, but periods have become a bigger concern for girls when doing PE in school over the last academic year.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">A total of 27,867 girls surveyed by the charity reported the below as being their biggest barriers between 2018 and 2021: </span></p>
<p style="margin:20px 0px 0px 72px;line-height:15.75pt;text-indent:-18pt;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt;position:relative;"><span style="margin:0px;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';margin:0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">37% of girls said their periods stopped them from getting active in school in 2020/21 vs 27% in 2018/19. <em><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">A rise of 10 percentage points.</span></em></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 72px;line-height:15.75pt;text-indent:-18pt;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt;position:relative;"><span style="margin:0px;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';margin:0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">33% said they were not confident to get active in school in 2020/21 vs 30% in 2018/19. <em><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">A rise of 3 percentage points.</span></em></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 72px;line-height:15.75pt;text-indent:-18pt;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt;position:relative;"><span style="margin:0px;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';margin:0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">33% of girls said other people watching them take part in physical activity in school put them off in 2020/21 vs 27% in 2018/19. <em><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">A rise of 6 percentage points.</span></em></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 15pt 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Through the Youth Sport Trust’s Girls Active programme, which is funded by the National Lottery through Sport England and supported by Women in Sport, it is empowering more girls to learn how to engage their peers and support teachers to remove barriers.</span></p></div>New video PE classes for teenage girlshttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/new-video-pe-classes-for-teenage-girls2021-10-07T08:58:11.000Z2021-10-07T08:58:11.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9653645456?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=207"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 29.09.2021</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-video-pe-classes-teenage-girls" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-video-pe-classes-teenage-girls</a></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><strong><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;"> </span></strong><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">A new video-on-demand platform is hoping to inspire teenage girls to get active through fun PE lessons. This Girl Can’s Studio You launches today and aims to increase the number of teenage girls meeting the Chief Medical Officer’s guideline level of physical activity for their age.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Currently 57% of girls aged 13-16 are not meeting the guidelines, with a 52.9% citing a lack of confidence and 57.2% saying self-consciousness is a barrier to them getting active. Studio You has been created with teenage girls and PE teachers, and is designed to break down these barriers.</span></p>
<p><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Supported by the Association for Physical Education, the Netflix-style platform will be free and allow PE teachers to teach classes in activities such as yoga, boxing, Pilates and dance – all of which our research showed would be popular among teenage girls than more traditional offerings</span></p></div>New guidance for transgender inclusion in domestic sport publishedhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/new-guidance-for-transgender-inclusion-in-domestic-sport-publishe2021-10-06T15:24:23.000Z2021-10-06T15:24:23.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9651624281?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=283"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 30.09.21</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-guidance-transgender-inclusion-domestic-sport-published" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-guidance-transgender-inclusion-domestic-sport-published</a></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">The UK’s sports councils have published new guidance for transgender inclusion in domestic sport.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">The Sports Councils’ Equality Group (SCEG), made up of representatives from each of the UK’s sports councils (UK Sport, Sport England, Sport Wales, sportscotland and Sport Northern Ireland), commissioned a review of its existing guidance (2013/15) for the inclusion of transgender people in sport last year, recognising that sport at every level required more practical advice and support.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 15pt 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">This review investigated the views, knowledge, and experience of hundreds of people with a lived experience in sport, including transgender people, and also explored the background to current policies domestically and internationally and considered the latest scientific findings affecting the inclusion of transgender people in domestic sport.</span></p>
<p> </p></div>Extra £5m for Active Together crowdfunding partnershiphttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/articles/extra-5m-for-active-together-crowdfunding-partnership2021-09-22T09:34:38.000Z2021-09-22T09:34:38.000ZLouise Silverhttps://www.wecanmoveinsight.net/members/LouiseSilver<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9595402270?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Source: Sport England 08.09.21</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sportengland.org/news/extra-ps5m-active-together-crowdfunding-partnership" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/news/extra-ps5m-active-together-crowdfunding-partnership</a></p>
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<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:12pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Grassroots sports clubs have received a boost with the news Sport England is investing a further £5 million of National Lottery funding into its partnership with Crowdfunder.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">The Return to Play: Active Together fund evolved from a 2018 collaboration with Crowdfunder and sees Sport England match-fund up to £10,000 for not-for-profit organisations that raise funds via the crowdfunding website.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt;vertical-align:middle;margin:15pt 0cm 15pt 0cm;"><span style="margin:0px;top:-8.5pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;position:relative;">Since May 2020, the fund has supported 475 clubs and raised a total of £7,103,289 – with, on average, each club raising £10,508 from their crowd alone. All sports clubs, charities and other community organisations who deliver sport or activity in England are able to apply for up to £10,000 in match funding to help their communities get active.</span></p></div>