Today a coalition of more than 200 bodies, athletes, businesses and charities across health, sport, recreation, and physical activity are calling on party leaders to #TakeTheLead and commit to making the UK the most active nation in Europe.
Swimmer Becky Adlington, Rugby’s Ugo Monye, skeleton’s Amy Williams and dance legend Darcey Bussell are among the stars and organisations who have signed an open letter to leaders, kickstarting the #TakeTheLead campaign: which demonstrates the importance of creating a more active nation and, crucially, the urgent need and unique opportunity for leaders to unlock our sector in a move that could be transformative to communities across the UK.
Participation in sport and physical activity matters. A lot. It unites our nation, binds our communities together, and makes us healthier, happier, more productive and more prosperous. And every year it saves the NHS £9.5bn by preventing illness and in generates £85bn in economic and social value.
But it could do so much more.
We need our next political leaders to take their inspiration from our leaders across sport, recreation and physical activity – to step up and make it happen.
We’re calling for a commitment to make the UK the most active nation in Europe.
We’re calling on the next Government to
#TaketheLead
ukactive Active Partnerships Youth Sport Trust CIMSPA Sport for Development Coalition
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