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Working in place
Our insight shows that people’s activity habits and behaviours aren’t simply determined by their own motivations and decisions. Their propensity to be active is influenced by lots of interacting factors including their lived experiences, demographics, personal circumstances, finances, and the place they live and environment around them.
The data is telling us:
- The most active place in England has activity levels (79%) that are 30% greater than the least active place (49%).
- People living in some places in England are twice as likely to have a disability or long-term health condition than people living in other places.
- Healthy life expectancy could vary by up to 17 years depending on where a person lives.
- Inactivity rates in England’s most deprived places are significantly higher than the least deprived (20%).
We recognise that to get different outcomes, we need to do things differently. Building on the learning and approaches of our pilot investment into a range of different of places (formerly known as Local Delivery Pilots), we’ve committed to significantly increasing the number of places across England that we partner with.
Our investment and resources are focused on the places and communities that need it most. You can find out more about our approach and investment into Place Partnerships, including how we identified our priority places and Place Universal Offer on the Sport England website.
Place-based working and systems change
We believe in the power of great leadership. Leading the Movement’s here to support leaders to understand and work in a place-based and systemic way, to help tackle inactivity and the inequality that contributes towards it. Visit our other resource pages to find out more about ‘Place-based working’ and ‘Whole systems approach’.
By taking a place-based and systemic approach, we’re aiming to work with leaders and communities to increase activity, tackle inequalities and provide positive opportunities and experiences for children and young people.
Our offer
All leaders, from those working in community settings, to those in strategic roles, help make change happen.
Their approach to place-based working, understanding of local issues and opportunities, process for making decisions and everyday behaviours can help to create the conditions and culture for change.
Our offer is designed to support leaders to tackle complex issues of inequality and inactivity through sport and physical activity. It seeks to build knowledge, skills, relationships, confidence and approaches to systems leadership. This training is designed to support leaders to work to tackle local inequalities and interact better and influence other agendas beyond sport and physical activity.
This support offer is targeted at leaders, working for specific types of organisations. It includes a national leadership course and place-based leadership course.
National leadership course
Designed for leaders involved in strategic physical activity, to develop system leadership skills and approaches, enabling them to interact confidently and effectively with other service areas and sectors.
Place-based leadership course
Designed for local leaders working in Sport England’s Place Partnership areas, to develop relationships and shared skills, enabling them to work collectively to tackle local inequalities in sport and physical activity.
Further resources
Whilst some leaders may not currently be eligible for these courses, there’s lots of helpful supporting resources that we’d encourage all leaders to explore.
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