First and foremost, our work starts with people. We need to listen and understand behaviour, experiences of being active or inactive, motivation, and whether the opportunities we have to be active are the right ones.
We also need to understand environments and people’s lives and explore the things that prevent us from being active or moving more. There may be wider influences at play, like feeling unsafe in the community, or unemployment. Often, it’s these wider influences that impact on activity that we need to change, rather than creating more opportunities for people to be active. Physical activity can also be part of the solution to changing some of these wider influences, for example, improving health.
Being open to and valuing different perspectives and the lived experience of communities is crucial in building our understanding and insight.
Find out more about some of our learning and insight gained through working closely with people and communities experiencing the greatest inequality...
The Talking Space was established as an opportunity for people to come together in an informal setting to discuss issues of importance to us all.
We want to help grow our collective understanding of systems leadership and of our capacity across the system. Find out more about this here.
There are a range of data sources which gather insight around physical activity behaviours within our communities. Click here to find out more.
Find out more about completing the Children & Young People’s Active Lives Survey for your school.
Schools are being supported to open their existing sport facilities for a broader range of young people and the wider community.
Sport England’s Together Fund provided vital support to some of the local community organisations based in our cities and counties. Find out more about some of this work and what we’ve learnt collectively.
Read the latest stories and case studies to help build understanding and insight to support people to move more.
An evaluation of the Girls Active programme in Nottingham City and Derby City has found…
The latest results from the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey for the 2023-24…
The Social Value of participatory sport and physical activitySport England’s latest research, published October 2024,…
The ProgrammeCharity, the Canal & River Trust, is working to encourage people from more diverse…
A total of 93 schools from across Derbyshire and Notts have been selected by Sport…
