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Announcing 53 new Place Expansion Partnerships as part of #SportEngland’s £250m investment into Place based work aiming to address regional inequalities in activity levels. Each area is in the top 10% of the country for inactivity, social need, deprivation and health inequality. By partnering with organisations, including Active Partnerships, local government and the health service, we are extending our work in communities across the country to ensure those in greatest need can be active. Read more: https://lnkd.in/enTszwcg #UnitingTheMovement

Sport England chief executive Tim Hollingsworth OBE welcomes the newly announced £100 million Government funding to upgrade sports facilities across the United Kingdom. Of the £100m committed, the Government has said at least 40% will go to multi-sports facilities, with the funding as a whole being targeted at deprived areas in an attempt to increase participation levels in women and girls, disabled people and those from ethnically diverse communities. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ee6jmnyH

📖 Moving Social Work is an education programme designed to encourage social workers to speak about physical activity to disabled people and other groups. The program focuses on increasing physical activity and the benefits this generates for the mind and body, actively creating resources and co-produced strategies for new and established social workers to adopt as part of their practice. To mark Social Work Week, Amarjit Randhawa, from Disability Rights UK, talks about how Moving Social Work, a programme funded by Sport England is helping social workers encourage disabled people and carers to move more. 👇Read More https://lnkd.in/eT7Wqf4e

Spotlighting three great examples of social prescribing this #SocialPrescribingDay: 🍃 Walking in nature 🕺 Learning to dance 🪴 Doing a spot of gardening Social prescribing connects people to activities, groups and support that improve health and wellbeing, enabling people to take an active part in their own journey.

Active Design sets out how the design of our environments can help people to lead more physically active and healthy lives. Hear from our Executive Director for Place, Lisa Dodd-Mayne, and Houlton residents on how the principles of active design have been incorporated 🗣 #SportEngland | #ActiveDesign

We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Youth Voice Innovation Storybook 📚 Born out of Sport England’s ambition to advocate for youth voice as a key enabler for creating positive experiences for children and young people – as part of Uniting the Movement – the new storybook will provide the sport and physical activity sector with tools, advice and tips on how to embed it. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e6KZvwMh

Where we live affects how active we can be due to inequality of opportunities. Places of high social need and deprivation have high levels of inactivity compared to wealthier areas. Your postcode can even affect your lifespan by up to nine years. We’re partnering with 53 new places to change this. Each place is in the top 10% of the country for inactivity, social need, deprivation and health inequality. These are alongside the 12 existing places we began working with in 2018, one of which is Calderdale in West Yorkshire. Let’s end the postcode lottery for physical activity.

‘I thought I wasn’t made for exercise, but exercise wasn’t made for me’. Our latest research highlights the deep-rooted barriers of exclusion, affordability and a lack of tailored support for many women when trying to get active. Sign up for our free webinar for further research and insights that are shaping the next phase of the #ThisGirlCan campaign: https://lnkd.in/gArtbkWN

This Girl Can has welcomed over 160 guests from across the sports sector, parliament and beyond as it continued its 10th birthday celebrations. Guests not only reflected on the last ten years of the campaign, but discussed how they could work together during the next phase of #ThisGirlCan "Belonging starts with inclusion" and support more women and girls get active.

Following the Government's publication of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, our chief executive Tim Hollingsworth has issued a statement. Visit our website to read: https://lnkd.in/escxzBHw