The New Bristol Sport and physical activity strategy has now been published. The strategy brings together a wide group of partners with the shared objectives of creating, promoting and enhancing opportunities for sport and physical activity as a key means to help create a healthier, resilient and more prosperous city. You can view the strategy [...]
Children’s activity levels are on the rise, according to Sport England’s second annual Active Lives Children and Young People Survey. The report, covering the academic year 2018/19, has been published with figures showing an increase of 3.6% in the number of children in England doing an average of 60 minutes or more of physical activity [...]
Sustrans is working on a £5.8 million project to boost walking and cycling options for people living and working around the Avonmouth area of Bristol. This project covers infrastructure improvements as well as behaviour change, with the funding from Highways England covering both aspects of the work. The initiative will see the upgrade of three [...]
As new guidance on the primary PE & Sport Premium is published, primary schools across England are sharing details of how they are improving PE and teachers’ confidence to deliver through a £320m government spending commitment. With new guidance published around how to spend the money, schools are being encouraged to invest the funding in [...]
Are you a swimming teacher or coach who works with deaf children and young people? Do you want ideas to help make all of your activities inclusive? Join the NDCS in London on 16 November for our one-day workshop, Deaf-friendly Swimming. Our interactive workshop supports swimming teachers and coaches to communicate with deaf young people and [...]
People in Bristol affected by dementia are being invited to get active for free this weekend. Everyone Active is offering people who live with dementia and their carers complimentary access to its leisure centres on Sunday 8th September. The goodwill gesture has been made in support of National Dementia Carers’ Day (Sunday 8 September). [...]
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This summer better by bike are putting on a number of bikeability and advanced cycle training courses in Bristol. A range of dates and venues are available, find more details at https://betterbybike.info/events
The Government’s new School Sport and Activity Action Plan Open in a new window has been hailed as a great step forward by our chief executive Tim Hollingsworth. With the Active Lives Survey showing that a third of children are currently doing fewer than 30 minutes of physical activity a day, the Government has developed [...]
Two dramatic run-outs in the final over of England's innings took the game into a Super Over with the scores tied on 241. England held their nerve, leveling the scores on the final ball of the deciding over, and then edged ahead on the boundary count to be crowned men's world champions for the first [...]