Active Kent & Medway

🚀 The new four-year Move Together strategy for Kent and Medway. It sets out how we can all work together to support those who are already active, as well as tackling the inequalities that currently prevent some of us from enjoying the benefits that moving more can bring to our physical and mental wellbeing.   Read our full strategy here and pledge your support - https://lnkd.in/eQkN5yfS #MoveTogether #Kent #Medway

🌟34 TEAMS and counting🌟There's still time to sign up to the Everyday Active TEAM Challenge and make every day an active day this April🎉 ✅Keeping active is great for our physical health and for improving our mental wellbeing and doing it as a team can be especially rewarding. Gather your colleagues, friends or family and create a team of 3-6 people. Stay active, track your progress, and enjoy some healthy competition with other teams across Kent and Medway. 💻Sign up now. Let's #MoveTogether and make every day an active day this April ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eKqbDQSf NHS Kent & Medway Social Enterprise Kent Kent County Council Medway Council Medway Healthy Workplaces Gravesham Borough Council Ashford Borough Council Thanet District Council Dover District Council Dartford Borough Council Sevenoaks District Council Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council Folkestone & Hythe District Council Swale Borough Council Canterbury City Council Maidstone Borough Council

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🌟Awarded over £61,000 to 142 projects supporting children and young people🌟 Since 2022, we've been fortunate to receive small grant funding from Kent Trust for Youth Sport, enabling us to support local clubs and community groups to deliver impactful projects, helping children and young people across the county to become more active, ensuring they have positive experiences when it comes to getting active and playing sport. ✅Funds covered coaching costs, venue hire, equipment, marketing, and workforce development, benefiting children and young people from diverse backgrounds, including those from culturally diverse communities, lower income families, the LGBTQ+ community and those with physical and learning disabilities. 🙏 THANK YOU Kent Trust for Youth Sport for making a difference to the lives of children and young people across Kent and Medway 🙌 #MoveTogether #Funding #SupportingSport #PositiveExperiences Sport England Active Partnerships Kent County Council Jon Rye

💬 “Thank you very much for the event. Brilliant presentations. Really insightful and useful.” 💥What a great turnout for our online Live Longer Better Network event yesterday with over 40 attendees. Topics included Engaging Older People in Physical Activity; Funding; Active Environments and Planning, with some great engagement throughout the session. Thank you to everyone who attended. 🙌 #HealthWellbeing #ConnectingCommunities #EverydayActive 💬 “It’s great to hear what other people are doing in their area and what research is going on. A very useful session, especially the Everyday Active resources.” We welcome new members to our Live Longer Better Network at any time. If you work with older adults, or provide services for older adults in Kent and Medway, find out more and join 👇 https://lnkd.in/eHJkxeY7 Sport England Active Partnerships NHS Kent & Medway Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust Involve Kent Age UK Kent Rivers Gravesham Borough Council Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Stuart, one of our Sport Welfare Officers, made the most of the sunshine today, down by the River Medway with Steve Mitchell, Regional Manager for Royal Yachting Association (RYA). They visited Chatham Maritime Watersports Centre and then Medway Yacht Club, offering some stunning views along the Medway. Though they didn’t get out on the water, it was a great opportunity to discuss club development, with a focus on club welfare #Safeguarding #SafeInSport #SupportingSport Find out about the support that our #SportWelfare officers, Stuart & Jimmy, offer clubs across Kent and Medway ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/dMzRkWMj Sport England Medway Council Active Partnerships

Harnessing the benefits of physical activity📢 As the local #ActivePartnership for Kent and Medway, we welcome NHS England’s new position statement and webpages, highlighting the benefits and evidence for embedding physical activity into every aspect of life-long healthcare for patients, NHS staff and the wider population. “Collaboration between the NHS and the physical activity sector is essential to embedding physical activity into health and care.” Find out more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/er5GP6WM

🌟JOIN OUR TEAM🌟 We’re seeking a Place Programme Manager to join our fantastic team. You will lead our place partnership work in the areas of greatest need, to really understand the issues preventing people from being active and help co-create change. You will be supported by our Strategic Lead for Marketing, Strategy and Insight and oversee and direct the day-to-day work of local community connectors. Closing Date: 30 March 2025. Interview Date: 4 April 2025. Find out more and apply online ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ecBdzYdK Sport England Active Partnerships Kent County Council Swale Borough Council Gravesham Borough Council Medway Council Thanet District Council Social Enterprise Kent NHS Kent & Medway Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

🔦Discover Our Spotlight On Series 🔦 Active Kent & Medway is committed to working in partnership with health, education, sport, leisure, voluntary and community sectors to help improve lives through physical activity and sport. Our ‘Spotlight On’ series shines a light on some crucial topics and provides guidance, resources, workshops, case studies and funding opportunities all in one place: 👉 Including Disabled People 👉 Menopause and Movement 👉 Female Participation 👉 Safeguarding Adults 👉 Volunteering 👉Cost of Living Support Learn more ⬇️

🚨Funding Opportunity🚨A new grant fund has been launched to support mental health and suicide prevention projects and events that promote HOPE in their local community. Set up by the Kent and Medway Suicide Prevention Programme ahead of the Baton of Hope UK Tour visiting Medway, Maidstone, Canterbury and Thanet later this year. The panel welcome innovative ideas such as, but not limited to: ✅sports or physical activity events ✅community arts projects ✅local schools or community groups designing messages around hope and promoting these in the community ✅events or activities within nature Learn more and apply by 15 April 2025👇 https://lnkd.in/eZ8w3_qt Kent County Council Medway Council NHS Kent & Medway Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust Social Enterprise Kent Funding for All Kent FA Kent Cricket Head In The Game Charity Inclusive Sport Mid Kent Mind Kent Golf South Kent Mind Involve Kent