An evaluation of the Girls Active programme in Nottingham City and Derby City has found that it has positively impacted the girls taking part in a number of ways. The evaluation by Nottingham Trent University found that it has had a positive impact on the physical activity levels of the girl leaders, alongside an improved…
The latest results from the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey for the 2023-24 academic year have been released. Published by Sport England, the survey shows that nationally 47.8% of children are meeting the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines of taking part in an average of 60 minutes or more of sport and physical activity…
The Social Value of participatory sport and physical activity Sport England’s latest research, published October 2024, finds that community sport and physical activity generates a staggering £107.2 billion in annual social value across the UK, highlighting its crucial role in national health and wellbeing and the importance of our work at Active Derbyshire and Active…
The Programme Charity, the Canal & River Trust, is working to encourage people from more diverse backgrounds to access the nation’s historic waterways. After some community engagement and listening to the lived experience of staff within their own organisation they found that it is very common for black people to have little or no water…
A total of 93 schools from across Derbyshire and Notts have been selected by Sport England to complete the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey for the summer term. The survey is the biggest of its kind, gathering insight into young people’s activity levels, physical literacy, swimming proficiency, wellbeing, self-efficacy and levels of social…
Scott Hartley, from our Insight partners, Press Red present’s an Insight into the Pysical Activity Behaviour of people in Nottingham City. This Insight has been created using Active Lives Survey data and the Census data and id especially interesting as it’s the first time we’ve had a chance to properly analyse physical activity behaviour pre,…
A total of 102 schools from across Notts and Derbyshire have been selected by Sport England to complete the Active Lives Young People Survey this Spring term. The survey is the biggest of its kind, gathering insight into young people’s activity levels, physical literacy, swimming proficiency, wellbeing, self-efficacy and levels of social trust. Schools which…
Formerly Club Matters, Buddle is the new name for Sport England’s programme to recognise, support and champion volunteers delivering sport and physical activity in England. Following extensive consultation with partners and community organisations, the rebrand aims to broaden the reach of support to a wider range of volunteers regardless of the type of organisation they…
The latest national results from the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey show that children and young people’s overall activity levels are stable as the initial recovery from the pandemic was maintained across the 2022-23 academic year. The survey shows 47% of children are meeting the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines of taking part in…
The latest data packs showing adult activity levels in Derby and Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have just been released. This data is mainly taken from Sport England’s Active Lives Survey and shows the trends in activity levels within our communities pre and post pandemic and covers from 2015 when the survey was first launched to…
