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Sport England making up to £195 million of funding available to help the sport and physical activity sector through the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. The package is made up of the following: A £20 million Community Emergency Fund, which will be opened immediately for clubs and community organisations to bid into. Grants between £300 and [...]

Here at Bristol Active city we want to help you stay active at home. We have found a number of links to activity video's and pages that may be of interest you. We will be updating this list on a regular basis to help you with your home fitness. Bristol Leisure operator's Brunel fitness centre: [...]

Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust have responded to a pressing need for action following the Government’s announcement of school closures, remote working and social distancing. A workforce of more than 450 trusted and experienced leaders of school sport and physical activity programmes are being redeployed to provide online activities and digital content to [...]

Sport England has compiled some of the most useful tips on how you can get active when you're at home, if you're well enough. More and more of us are spending time at home and thinking about other ways of being active. Official advice is now recommending against non-essential contact and all unnecessary travel - including [...]

More GPs should prescribe walking to improve mental health and long-term physical health conditions, says a new report published by Living Streets. ‘Is Walking a Miracle Cure?’ focuses on the health benefits of walking and argues that towns and cities designed for walking will significantly improve physical health and mental wellbeing. The report makes recommendations [...]

  Bristol City Council pledges to tackle one of the biggest health risks in the UK with a new approach to weight management. Mayor Marvin Rees today (5 February) signed the Food Active’s Healthy Weight Declaration – a strategy, endorsed by health care organisations, designed to help people maintain a healthy weight by looking a [...]

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 [...]