We’ve taken 17 of the best Change4Life designs and added them to the Change4Life poster design tool. We’ve kept in some of the swim4life designs because I know some areas run this even now that the national programme has finished. There’s designs for lots of types of activity – cycling, dance and lots more. Try [...] Read more »
What’s your sport?
Here’s a new tool from the NHS to help people find their ideal sport. The data about where to get active is powered by the activity search tool from www.promotingactivity.com Users can create their personal profile using tests to assess your personality, aptitude and reactions. They can then find out which Olympic sport they are [...] Read more »
promotingactivity.com in Age Concern magazine
Age Concern magazine have just run an article about promotingactivity.com highlighting how you can use the Strategic Planning tool. I’ve scanned it in, and you can read the full article below. Read more »
Old strategic planning tool reports
We’ve had requests from a few users for the old planning tool reports. This is because they included maps of cardio vascular disease (CVD) risk factors of high blood pressure and high cholesterol. We didn’t include this information in the new Strategic Planning tool because we were told by some data experts at PCTs that [...] Read more »
What photos do we need the most?
We’ve already built a photo library of over 1500 images which can be used for free by anyone promoting activity to the public. (photos.promotingactivity.com/) We’ve got funding from the Department of Health to organise another photo shoot and we want to make sure that we add images which are helpful to the most people. We [...] Read more »
Fixes and improvements to the activity search tool
The latitude/ longitude button on the activity search tool content wasn’t working for a few days. So if you wanted to add a new venue, club or group then you weren’t able to. That has now been fixed. In fact we’ve also simplified this, so you don’t need to worry about latitude/ longitude at all [...] Read more »
Get your clubs to appear on change4life.com
The activity search tool on promotingactivity.com is now powering both www.change4life.com and www.nhs.uk/letsgetmoving. If you’ve got a list of sports clubs and activity groups in your area which you’d like to get onto those two websites then you can do that by simply filling in this form. If you’ve got a government email address (e.g. [...] Read more »
Activity search tool bug
Really sorry about this – but it looks like we’ve got a bug on the Activity Search tool Content Management system. If you click on the latitude/longitude button then nothing happens, or maybe an error message comes up. We’re working on fixing this right now. Read more »
promotingactivity.com back online
The promotingactivity.com site is back up and running now. Big apologies for the problems there. If you’re interested in the technical details (and who isn’t!) then it was caused by an update to settings in the Internet Information Services on the server, this caused problems which have now been resolved. Read more »
Promotingactivity.com is down
The promotingactivity.com site is down at the moment – and we’re working hard to figure out why and what we can do to get it up and running again. We’re really sorry for the problems this is causing for everyone, and promise to do our best to get it back up as soon as possible. Read more »
