There are still a number of places available on the FREE online 'Wellbeing in Workplace' workshop delivered by Wellbeing Suffolk on Tuesday 11th May from 14:00 - 15:30.

The workshop will be hosted via Zoom and will teach you skills to combat stress, emotional challenges, anxiety and low mood problems, as well as help you become more resilient to stresses and difficulties in the future.

The session also includes some useful guidance on the causes of stress and techniques to manage it and is applicable for everyone, no matter how you are feeling right now. It may be that you are experiencing stress and anxiety caused by the current pandemic. It could be that your stress is being caused by your work life, home life, or perhaps elsewhere. It may be that you feel you are coping fine at the moment.

To secure your place, please register no later than 4th MAY: HERE. Please put Active Suffolk Workforce as your employer, the workshop title is 'Wellbeing in the Workplace' and ensure you enter the correct date (11th May) for the workshop in order to secure your place.

Once registered, you will then be emailed a Zoom link and password a week before the session.

For more information on the workshop, please see our website.

The latest Active Lives data released by Sport England today, show adults in Suffolk to be more active than the national average. The survey has reported that 61.4% of adults across the country are meeting the physical activity guidelines set by the Chief Medical Officer, which after a very challenging year for the country due to the pandemic not surprisingly shows a significant decrease over the last 12 months.

However, for Suffolk 63.2% of adults are classified as active, which is a slight improvement in the direction of travel compared to last year's figures. Overall, the figures show that Suffolk is the only Active Partnership area to show a statistically significant increase in the number of active people since 2015/16, when the Active Lives survey was first produced, which is very encouraging and shows the strength of the collaborative partnership working across Suffolk.

Insight into the impact of the pandemic, also highlighted the widening of health inequalities which is a known factor effecting the number of people taking part in regular physical activity. During this challenging time, and in addition to other successes Active Suffolk have proudly secured £493,000 of funding through Sport England for sports clubs and organisations across the county who work to tackle those recognised inequalities such as disability, ethnicity, areas of deprivation and long- term conditions.

For more information about the latest insight published by Sport England, visit www.activesuffolk.org/active-lives-survey

The national report also gives an overview of volunteering in sport and physical activity in England. It shows that one in five adults – just under 10 million people – gave up their time to support sport and physical activity at some point across the 12 months from November 2019 to November 2020. It underlines what we already knew: the response by sports volunteers to the challenge posed by the coronavirus pandemic has been inspirational and phenomenal, so thank you to all those volunteers out there!

The full Active Lives report published by Sport England can be found at: www.sportengland.org/news/impact-coronavirus-activity-levels-revealed