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81 Partners supported 3,300 community organisations to deliver Together Fund activities across the country. In total, community organisations completed over 3,700 Together Fund projects, from horse riding sessions to chair yoga. Sport England distributed the Together Fund through a network of partners. This included working with existing partners as well as establishing new relationships with others. Partners delivering the Together Fund included: • Active Partnerships – a nationwide physical activity and sport network of 43 local and independent non-profit organisations across England, who take a place-based approach. • National Governing Bodies – organisations that govern and administer a specific sport on a national basis. • National or local charities / organisations who also receive other Sport England funding. • Specialist organisations, some non-physical activity or sports related, who have not previously been funded by Sport England, who have links to specific target audiences. Download
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Healthy Hyde work with the 8 GP practices in Hyde. They are a Primary Care Network (PCN) supporting 72,000 patients in Tameside. Here we hear about how the Healthy Hyde uses physical activity and movement to support their young peoples' mental wellbeing. Find out more
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This report highlights the importance of physical activity, lived experience motivators and barriers, trusted sources of information, the need for practical guidance to support professionals, and the importance of charity involvement in We Are Undefeatable A key insight is that there is a potential ‘empathy gap’: while individuals with long-term conditions cite pain and low energy as the main barriers to be active, professional audiences (sport, government, family, carers etc) often focus on factors like cost and motivation. The full report can be downloaded here: https://weareundefeatable.co.uk/media/0nujzn5p/bridging-the-gap_full-report.pdf A We Are Undefeatable dashboard provides stakeholders with all the insights and data from the Bridging the Gap report https://insight-angels.datatile.eu/view/d45c0728-36bc-4f50-af38-374dbca5b037 Find out more Download
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This toolkit will be useful for a broad range of people: from a person living with a neurological condition to a commissioner of health, wellbeing and leisure services as well as anyone delivering these services. We believe the toolkit could also be applied to a range of other long-term conditions. It explains how the Neuro Therapy Centre developed this project in Cheshire West and Chester with many partners. Find out more
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The Coronavirus Pandemic and now, the cost-of-living crisis, has impacted strongly on young people’s lives, the communities they live in and their ability to be active. That’s why StreetGames in partnership with Platypus Research have just undertaken a major research study to capture the views and opinions of 1,000 young people from lower-income households. Find out more
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The Green Social Prescribing Toolkit reflects on the process of implementing the Green Social Prescribing programme and shares some of the learning and insights. Many aspects of the learning will be more widely applicable and relevant than the mental health focus of this programme. Find out more
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This Girl Can and ukactive have joined forces to work on behalf of the sector to better understand the barriers which women and girls face in taking part in physical activity in this setting, and to translate these findings into actionable advice that the sector can use to attract more women and girls into their facilities. Find out more
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The Richmond Group of Charities and Sport England have created this pack becuase leaders and frontline practitioners in the health and care system are having to tackle a threefold challenge of recovering form the COVID-19 pandemic, developing population health approaches that help prevent disease and improve the nation's resilience, as well as reducing health inequalities. Find out more
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Insight and learning from Sport England from Active Ageing funded projects, to support older adults to increase their physical activity levels. Find out more
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Activity Alliance have created this tool in partnership with Club Matter to see how inclusive and accessible your organisation is when meeting the needs of disabled people. Find out more
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this toolkit has been designed to support those woking within leisure, sport and physical activity environments to provide more inclusive facilities. This in trn will help people with a visual impairment access opportunity to be more active and healthy and to thrive. Find out more
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Moving for mental health: how physical activity, sport and sport for development can transform lives after Covid-19. Find out more
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We(CSP) spent a year listening to people living with long-term health conditions about their thoughts on strengthening activities. Find out more
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One in three of us in England like with a health condition and we are twice as likely to be amongst the least physically active, yet we know that being active can help to manage our conditions and increase out quality and length of life. Find out more
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Physical inactivity is a huge issue for people living with physical and mental health conditions. More than 42% are inactive, almost twice the proportion of people without health conditions (23%). The Richmond Group of Charities knows this is central to tackling health inequalities and the wider challenges faced by peoole living with multiple conditions. Find out more
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Act now to invest in integrated strength and balance exercise programmes to address the decondition impact of COVID-19 among older adults. Find out more
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Download our free practical guide for the sport and physical activity sector to become more dementia-friendly. Find out more
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This report explores the experiences, barriers ad motivations for physical activity among people in their 50s and 60s. Find out more
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At any age, physical activity improves muscle strength, endurance, and reaction time, as well as bone density and posture. As we get older, being active is particularly important, becuase the normal ageing process causes loss of muscle mass and bone density, which affects strength, balance and posture. Find out more
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At the forefront of developing research into VI sport participation, British Blind Sport utilises the insight to developour services and support partners to meet the needs of VI people in sport. Find out more
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This series of learning outputs share the What? How? Who? and What next of GOGA? from our learning to date. They aim to help other to the genuinely inclusive and reach those that would benefit most from being more active. In these resources you will find evidence-based approaches to engaging inactive people successfully. Find out more
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The Access to Exercise pathway aimed to develop access to exercise for people with neurological conditions. The primary aim of the evaluation is to understand what extent the AtoE project effectively support and sustains people with neurological condition into an active lifestyle. Find out more
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British Blind Sport is pleased to announce the launch of a new guide for Vision Rehabilitation Workers who support blind and partially sighted adults through physical activity. The resource was created in collaboration with the British Blind Sport, Rehabilitation Workers Professional Network, Visionary, Metro Blind Sport, The Wilberforce Trust and North-East Sensory Services. Find out more
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Rethink Mental Illness was awarded funding by Sport England to address some of the barriers which prevent people severely affected by mental illness from engaging in physical activity by embedding activities into peer support groups and local services. Find out more
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Research at Loughborough University has found that exercise interventions delivered in primary care appear to boost levels of moderate vigorous intensity activity in adults by an average of 14 minutes a week. Find out more
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This Girl Can and ukactive have joined forces to work on behalf of the sector to better understand the barriers which girls face in taking part in physical activity in the setting, and to translate these findings into actionable advice that the sector can use to attract more women and girls to their facilities. Find out more
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NetballHer is here to raise the bar for women and girls through the creation of expert resources, game changing learning offers and by being a strong and responsible voice for 'her'. Find out more
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Menopause is a taboo subject in our society and women going through the menopause are missing out on the benefits of being physically active. Women in Sport wanted to find out more. Find out more
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Our campaign hub has been designed so that any organisation or individual looking to deliver This Girl Can experiences have the tools to do so. It offers a wealth of resources to help make your activities better suited to the needs of woemn and girls, with inspirational materials and practical resources including toolkits, assets and guides. There's also a community area for you to share your stories, with out latest news keeping you up to date with everything that's going on with This Girl Can. Find out more
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Sporting Journeys is about how, why and when women play sport. Insights include how women's experience of different sports change through education as well as at key stages of adulthood. Find out more
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Disabled people are a part of every demographic in society, motivated to be or not to be active for numerous reasons. This resource. encourages the sport and leisure providers to look beyond standard demographics and take a person-centred approach to providing opportunities for disabled people. Find out more
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Activity Alliance can support your organisation to reach a wider audience in sport and activity, including more disabled people. Our Inclusive Communications Guide and supporting film are a useful starting point. Find out more
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Dumfries and Galloway Health Public Health Team commissioned this Insight Project to try and understand low engagement in physical activity in young people aged 13-25 years, and to generate recommendations to address this. Find out more
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The exciting campaign from national charity, Activity Alliance is back and this time it's all about children and young people! Join us in calling time on negative perceptions about disability, inclusion, and sport, and ask- Who says? Find out more
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Coaches, volunteers and leaders play an important role in supporting young people's mental health when providing physical activity session. Working with young people and coached, we have co-produced resources to upskill the workforce. These provide information on how to better support young people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, a mental health problem. Find out more
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We know that when children and young people have a voice, choice and can take ownership of their journey when participating in sport and physical activity, they are more likely to develop a true and lifelong love of being active. It's time to change the game. Play Their Way (UK Coaching). Find out more
