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Category: Insight

  • Nottingham PlayZone – Invitation to Quote for Project Manager

    Nottingham PlayZone – Invitation to Quote for Project Manager

    Active Partners Trust, on behalf of the Nottingham Playzone Consortium (NPC), is seeking to appoint an organisation or individual to act as Project Manager from Monday 1st June to Friday 19th January. The Nottingham Playzone Consortium (via Active Notts) will appoint the Project Manager (PM) to manage the consultation process and submission of the Playzone…

  • Talking Space – Sharing stories of co-production

    Talking Space – Sharing stories of co-production

    This Talking Space was held on March 23rd 2023 and was an opportunity to hear some recentexamples of co-production and co-design across Notts and Derbyshire. You can watch or re-watch the recording now to hear from a variety of different approaches toengaging and learning from different communities and service users. Here is a preview of…

  • Nottingham PlayZone – Invitation to Quote for Insight and Engagement

    Nottingham PlayZone – Invitation to Quote for Insight and Engagement

    Active Partners Trust, on behalf of the Nottingham Playzone Consortium (NPC), is seeking to appoint an organisation or individual to act as an Insight and Engagement partner for the initial 6 months of the project (from Monday 2nd May to Friday 27th October) What is a PlayZone? PlayZones are modern, safe, and engaging facilities that…

  • Kenning Park Forest School – supporting the local community to move more

    Kenning Park Forest School – supporting the local community to move more

    Michaela Thorpe from Kenning Park Forest School in Clay Cross shared how the Forest School has grown from an Home Education group to supporting the local community through adult based sessions, mental health support and holiday sessions for local children. Michaela has credited the support of local partners in growing the group and offering a…

  • Latest Walking Insight in Notts

    Latest Walking Insight in Notts

    The Walk Notts partnership have been looking at the latest Walking Insight across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and they re-emphasise the findings of Making our Move. The key headline is that just over 3 in 10 people in Notts are really not walking much at all. Those people that do not walk are much more likely…

  • Wednesday Night Project at William Allitt

    Wednesday Night Project at William Allitt

    The Wednesday Night Project at William Allitt started as a number of local opportunities aligned in Swadlincote (South Derbyshire). Through place-based working in Newhall with Thriving Communities, a Newhall Community Network helped to bring local stakeholders and community members together every 6-8 weeks, to better understand the need and opportunities within communities. This highlighted the…

  • 100 schools in Notts and Derbyshire selected to complete Active Lives Young People Survey this term

    100 schools in Notts and Derbyshire selected to complete Active Lives Young People Survey this term

    100 schools 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 physical activity habits and their feelings towards physical activity. Schools which complete the survey receive a detailed, personalised report…

  • New Census 2021 Insight Tool

    New Census 2021 Insight Tool

    The Office of National Statistics has produced a new insight tool to create your own profile for local areas in England and Wales using Census 2021 data. Using the tool, you can: Find out more

  • Latest Active Lives Children and Young People Survey results released

    Latest Active Lives Children and Young People Survey results released

    The latest results from the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey show that, nationally, children and young people’s activity levels overall have recovered to pre-pandemic levels, with 47% of children meeting the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines of taking part in an average of 60 minutes or more of sport and physical activity a day.…

  • Talking Space – Enabling women who are less active to move more

    Talking Space – Enabling women who are less active to move more

    Our final Talking Space of 2022 took place which focused on ways to encourage Women and Girls to move more. The session focused on strategies and stories from the This Girl Can campaign in Nottingham and featured contributions from Loz Uttley from Nottingham City Council and TGC Community Activator and Zumba Instructor Charm Daley. This…