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Do you need to prove the value of sport?

Now that the PCTs are moving over to public health teams at the council, do you need to prove the value of sport to a whole new set of managers? Do you wish that someone had been clever enough to collect together a huge amount of research to support the claim that...

Local area costs of physical inactivity

Sport England commissioned the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group at Oxford University to prepare estimates of the primary and secondary care costs attributable to physical inactivity. The results show that physical inactivity cost more than £900...

Evaluation of the Active Women Programme

In January 2011, 20 applicants were awarded £7.5 million of funding for projects targeting women in disadvantaged communities or women caring for children, through the Active Women programme. Almost 30,000 women have taken part in sport through funded projects to...

Olympics will not improve participation in sport

Justifying the Olympic spending by claiming that the Games in London will inspire more Britons to participate in sports may be plain wrong, reveals a new study. “Give us our Ball Back: Reclaiming Sport for the Common Good”, a new report by the two British think tanks,...

Taking Part 2011/12 Quarter 4

Key findings Latest results (April 2011 to March 2012) show: 43.8 per cent of adults participated in at least one session of 30 minutes of moderate intensity sport in the last week (1×30 MIS measure). Since 2005/06, participation of adults in at least one session...