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Gloucester Beat The Street 2019 resulted in 9% decrease in inactivity

Beat the Street is an inclusive, fun and motivating initiative that connects people with their local environment and encourages individuals to walk, cycle or scoot with family or friends to collect points. Beat the Street Gloucester aims to increase physical activity amongst children and adults. (January 2020)

Does increasing girls' and women's participation in physical activity improve their wellbeing?

On International Women’s Day in March, we published our evaluation of the Sporting Equality Fund, a £325,000 set of grants from the Scottish government to get more girls and women participating in physical activity. Fourteen organisations were awarded up to £25,000 for year-long projects – all were asked to look at how participation increased wellbeing. Across the fund as a whole, we saw average life satisfaction go up from 6.9 to 8.0 out of 10, with similar rises across the other three ONS wel

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