We know that when children and young people have a voice, choice and can take ownership of their journey when participating in sport and physical activity, they are more likely to develop a true and lifelong love of being active. It’s time to change the game. Play Their Way

Coaches, volunteers and leaders play an important role in supporting young people’s mental health when providing physical activity sessions. Working with young people and coaches, we have co-produced resources to upskill the workforce. These provide information on how to better support young people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, a mental health problem.

The exciting campaign from national charity, Activity Alliance is back and this time it’s all about children and young people!  Join us in calling time on negative perceptions about disability, inclusion, and sport, and ask – Who says?

Dumfries and Galloway Health Public Health Team commissioned this Insight Project to try and understand low engagement in physical activity in young people aged 13-25 years, and to generate recommendations to address this.

Activity Alliance can support your organisation to reach a wider audience in sport and activity, including more disabled people. Our Inclusive Communications Guide and supporting film are a useful starting point.

Disabled people are a part of every demographic in society, motivated to be or not to be active for numerous reasons. This resource encourages the sport and leisure providers to look beyond standard demographics and take a person-centred approach to providing opportunities for disabled people.

Our campaign hub has been designed so that any organisation or individual looking to deliver This Girl Can experiences have the tools to do so.  It offers a wealth of resources to help make your activities better suited to the needs of women and girls, with inspirational materials and practical resources including toolkits, assets and guides.  There’s also a community area for you to share your stories, with our latest news keeping you up to date with everything that’s going on with This Girl Can.

Sporting Journeys is about how, why and when women play sport.  Insights include how women’s experiences of different sports change through education as well as at key stages of adulthood.

Menopause is a taboo subject in our society and women going through the menopause are missing out on the benefits of being physically active. Women in Sport wanted to find out more.

NETBALLHer is here to raise the bar for women and girls through the creation of expert resources, game changing learning offers and by being a strong and responsible voice for “her”.

This Girl Can and ukactive have joined forces to work on behalf of the sector to better understand the barriers which women and girls face in taking part in physical activity in this setting, and to translate these findings into actionable advice that the sector can use to attract more women and girls into their facilities.

Research at Loughborough University has found that exercise interventions delivered in primary care appear to boost levels of moderate to vigorous intensity activity in adults by an average of 14 minutes a week.

Sports and fitness occupations, numbering approximately 400,000 people in the UK,
have been identified as an already ‘active’ part of the wider public health workforce.
This report focuses on a particular subset of this workforce and how it can play an
enhanced role in supporting the public’s health

Rethink Mental Illness was awarded funding by Sport England to address some of the barriers which prevent people severely affected by mental illness from engaging in physical activity by embedding activities into peer support groups and local services

British Blind Sport is pleased to announce the launch of a new guide for Vision Rehabilitation Workers who support blind and partially sighted adults through physical activity. The resource was created in collaboration with British Blind Sport, Rehabilitation Workers Professional Network, Visionary, Metro Blind Sport, The Wilberforce Trust and North-East Sensory Services.

The Access to Exercise pathway aimed to develop access to exercise for people with neurological conditions.  The primary aim of the evaluation is to understand to what extent the AtoE project effectively supports and sustains people with neurological conditions into an active lifestyle.

This series of learning outputs share the What? How? Who? And What next of GOGA? from our learning to date. They aim to help others to be genuinely inclusive and reach those that would benefit most from being more active. In these resources you will find evidence-based approaches to engaging inactive people successfully.

At the forefront of developing research into VI sport participation, British Blind Sport utilise this insight to develop our services and support partners to meet the needs of VI people in sport.

At any age, physical activity improves muscle strength, endurance, and reaction time, as well as bone density and posture.  As we get older, being active is particularly important, because the normal ageing process causes loss of muscle mass and bone density, which affects strength, balance and posture.

This report explores the experiences, barriers and motivations for physical activity among people in their 50s and 60s.

Download our free practical guide for the sport and physical activity sector to become more dementia-friendly.

Act now to invest in integrated strength and balance exercise
programmes to address the deconditioning impact of COVID-19
among older adults.

Physical inactivity is a huge issue for people living with physical and mental health conditions. More than 42% are inactive, almost twice the proportion of people without health conditions (23%).  The Richmond Group of Charities knows this is central to tackling health inequalities and the wider challenges faced by people living with multiple conditions.

This pack from the Richmond Group of Charities provides ways you can make a difference and help people, a summary of essential information about physical activity plus resources and case studies with more information and inspiration from good practice.

One in three of us in England live with a health condition and we are twice as likely to be amongst the least physically active, yet we know that being active can help to manage our conditions and increase our quality and length of life.

We (CSP) spent a year listening to people living with long-term health conditions about their thoughts on strengthening activities

Moving for mental health: how physical activity, sport and sport for development can transform lives after Covid-19:

Activity Alliance have created this tool in partnership with Club Matters to see how inclusive and accessible your organisation is when meeting the needs of disabled people.