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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: 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 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: 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: Sport England 21.10.21
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.
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 na
Source: NCSEM 18.10.21
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.
A total of 29 participants from disadvantaged com
Source: Youth Sport Trust 11.10.21
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.
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 gi
Source: Sport England 29.09.2021
https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-video-pe-classes-teenage-girls
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.
Currently 57% of girls aged 13-16 are not meeting the guidelines, with a 52.9% citing a lack of confidence and 5
Source: Sport England 30.09.21
https://www.sportengland.org/news/new-guidance-transgender-inclusion-domestic-sport-published
The UK’s sports councils have published new guidance for transgender inclusion in domestic sport.
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 transg
Source: Sport England 08.09.21
https://www.sportengland.org/news/extra-ps5m-active-together-crowdfunding-partnership
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.
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 crowdfun
Source: Sport England 31.08.2021
https://www.sportengland.org/news/free-digital-marketing-hub-boost-sport-and-physical-activity
Sport England has invested £450,000 of National Lottery money to fund a new free resource that will help people, clubs and organisations use digital marketing tools and techniques to encourage more people to play sport and be physically active. The new resource will help sports clubs, groups and larger organisations use digital marketing to encourage more people to be
Source: Sport England 03.08.2021
https://www.sportengland.org/news/drive-get-kids-moving-summer
Sport England has produced a new video and selection of resources, as well as investing in projects, to support children getting active this summer. Have fun and move more is the message from the new video aimed at encouraging children and young people to get active this summer.
The video has been put together with the help of partners at Forestry England, National Trust, Beat the Streets, Playing O
Source: Sport England 09.08.2021
https://www.sportengland.org/news/widespread-support-safety-measures-indoor-facilities-users-return
The number of people using indoor sports facilities has gone up since all restrictions were lifted in July, with large support for coronavirus safety measures suggesting they’re giving people the confidence to return.
The news comes from the latest wave of Sport England’s survey looking at people’s activity levels and attitudes towards activity throughout the pan
Source: Sport England April 21
How might people behave as restrictions ease? What will people be looking for as they return to activities?
Source: Sport England 02.07.21
https://www.sportengland.org/news/changes-made-strengthen-code-sports-governance
Changes to strengthen the Code for Sports Governance have been confirmed after an extensive consultation involving hundreds of organisations. The revised approach is primarily focused on ensuring bodies in receipt of substantial public funding from Sport England or UK Sport have a detailed and ambitious diversity and inclusion action plan to increase diversity on their boards and sen
Source: Sport England 23.06.21
https://www.sportengland.org/news/joint-statement-race-sport-review
Sport England tackling racism.pdf
Sport England tell your story.pdf
Sport England, in collaboration with the other home country Sports Councils and UK Sport, has carried out an independent review into tackling racism and racial inequality in sport.
Upon the publishing of these reports, the chief executives of each of the five home sports councils have issued a joint statement.
Source: Activity Alliance 9 June 21
http://www.activityalliance.org.uk/news/6210-british-blind-sport-scales-up-see-my-voice-programme
Following the success of the three year See My Voice programme British Blind Sport is delighted to announce that it has been selected by Sport England as one of only five organisations that have been given the opportunity to ‘scale up’ the programme.
See My Voice was developed to support blind and partially sighted young people achieve leadership skills through
Source: Sport England 11 June 21
https://www.sportengland.org/news/choose-you-during-this-girl-can-week
The first This Girl Can Week started on Saturday 12th June as Sport England’s campaign calls on women to choose themselves and take the time to get active.
After more than a year of disruption, the week is a response to Sport England’s own research that shows women have found it harder than men to maintain their activity habits curing the coronavirus pandemic. The figures come from wave 18 o
Source: Sport England 31st May 21
https://www.sportengland.org/news/girl-can-teams-heart
This Girl Can has teamed up with the UK’s biggest commercial radio brand to encourage women and girls across the country to come together and get moving. This Girl Can is taking over Heart with the aim of encouraging all women to exercise – regardless of their circumstances and on their own terms.
The takeover comes as a response to Sport England's research showing women, in particular, have struggled to k
Source: Sport England 12 May 2021
https://www.sportengland.org/news/retrain-retain-offers-route-back-professional-workforce
Sport England is investing £5 million of National Lottery money in a new and unique job retention and support package for sports and fitness professionals. The investment is part of the one-year implementation plan which sets out how deliver the first year of Sport England’s long-term strategy, Uniting the Movement, will be delivered.
Retrain to Retain is designed to suppor
