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East Region Active Partnership Active Lives Data Results Comparison

Suffolk ranks higher than national average for active adults

Posted: Mon, 22 May 2023 12:24

The latest Active Lives data released by Sport England, show adults in Suffolk to be more active than the national average.

The survey has reported that 63.1% of adults across the country are meeting the... Read More »

Tags: Active, Active Adults, Active Lives, Active Lives Data, Active Lives Survey, Active Partnerships, Activities, Babergh, Community, Data, East Region, Evaluation, Fairly Active, Get Active, Inactive, Insight, Ipswich, Mid , Sport England, Suffolk, Together Fund, Weekly Exercise

8-Year-Old Tennis Ace Among Those Receiving Sponsorship to Continue Their Sporting Dreams

8-Year-Old Tennis Ace Among Those Receiving Sponsorship to Continue Their Sporting Dreams

Posted: Fri, 19 May 2023 08:30

8-Year-Old Tennis Ace Among Those Receiving Sponsorship to Continue Their Sporting Dreams

A slew of talented athletes from Suffolk have been awarded sponsorship from local sports equipment manufacturer... Read More »

Tags: Ron Harrod Foundation, UEFA, beccles, children sport, competitions, gymnastics, harrod sport, ice hockey, lawn tennis association, middleton, norfolk, norfolk fa, norwich city academy, physical activi, sponsorship, sport, sports, suffolk, swimming, tennis, young people sport

This Girl Can and ukactive join forces on guidance for gyms and leisure centres to support safer spaces for women

This Girl Can and ukactive join forces on guidance for gyms and leisure centres to support safer spaces for women

Posted: Wed, 17 May 2023 16:14

Sport England's 'This Girl Can' campaign and ukactive have today (16 May) released new guidance to help fitness and leisure facilities create safer spaces for women and girls to be active.

The latest initiative... Read More »

Tags: Fitness, Guidance, Gym, Leisure Centre, Safer Spacers For Girls, Safer Spaces For Women, This Girl Can, Ukactive, Welcoming, Women And Girls

Free training to increase swim teachers in Suffolk

Free training to increase swim teachers in Suffolk

Posted: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 11:36

The Institute of Swimming has launched a Swimming Teachers' Academy with Abbeycroft Leisure in a bid to increase its swimming teacher workforce and provide more opportunities for people in Suffolk to learn... Read More »

Tags: CPD, bury st edmunds leisure centre, community, disability swimming, funding, hadleigh po, institute of swimming, newmarket leisure centre, pool, retrain, retrain to retain, subsidised training, swimming, swimming instructor, swimming lessons, swimming teacher, workforce

Grants to Help Disabled Young People to Compete in Sporting Events (UK)

Grants to Help Disabled Young People to Compete in Sporting Events (UK)

Posted: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:21

Disabled children and young people across the UK can apply for funding to help them participate in disability sports.

'Get Kids Going!' provides young people (up to the 26 years of age) with all disabilities,... Read More »

Tags: #getactive, Charity, Children, Children With Disabilities, Design And Development, Disability, Disabled Children, Disabled Sport, Funding, Get Active, Get Kids Going, Grant, Paralympics, Physical Activi, Sporting Events, Sports, Sports Equipment, Training, Wheelchair Sport

Tesco Announces £5m in Funding for Schools Across the UK

Tesco Announces £5m in Funding for Schools Across the UK

Posted: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:10

Funding to support the provision of healthy food and physical activities for schoolchildren.

From summer 2023, UK schools will be able to apply for a grant of up to £1,500 from Tesco to help give... Read More »

Tags: #getactive, Active, Children, Community, Community Grants, Food, Funding, Grants, Groundwork, Healthy, Healthy Lifestyle, Nutrition, Outdoors, Physical Activity, Play, Schoolchildren, Schools, Tackling Barriers, Tesco

Active Suffolk to lead Physical Activity efforts in Suffolk

Active Suffolk to lead Physical Activity efforts in Suffolk

Posted: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:34

From April 2023, collective efforts in Suffolk to promote physical activity will be led by Active Suffolk.

This comes as Suffolk County Council's Most Active County (MAC) programme is due to end on 31 March... Read More »

Tags: Activators, Be Active, Exercise, Get Active, Healthy Lifestyle, Inactivity, Joy Of Movement, Most Active County, Move More, Movement, Olympics, Paralympics, Partner, Physical Activity, Sport, Suffolk, Tackling Inequalities

New funding to help keep leisure centres with pools afloat

New funding to help keep leisure centres with pools afloat

Posted: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:06

Publicly-owned leisure centres with swimming pools have been handed a financial boost following the announcement of a major new fund in today's Spring Budget.

This afternoon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer... Read More »

Tags: #SaveLeisure, abbeycroft leisure, activ lives, active lives, community, funding, leisure centres, pools, sport england, swimming

Funding received to support Suffolk schools to open their sports facilities to help communities to be more active

Funding received to support Suffolk schools to open their sports facilities to help communities to be more active

Posted: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:50

Active Suffolk has been awarded a share of up to £57m worth of Opening School Facilities investment from the Department for Education, to support schools to open their sporting facilities for local... Read More »

Tags: Active, Active Lives, Active Lives Children and Young People Survey, Active Lives data, Active Lunchbreak, Active Schools, Children and Young People, OSF, Opening Schools Facility Investment, Schools, Sport England, communit, funding, opening schools, physical activity