No images? Click here Your weekly physical activity bulletin05 April 2022 We are working towards improving the health and wellbeing of the nation through sport, exercise and physical activity. For more information on our work visit our website or follow us on Twitter @NCSEM_PAnews Your help is needed to update key exercise referral resourceLoughborough University is looking for people who are working in, or have previously worked in, exercise referral schemes to complete a short questionnaire if you have not already done so. This is to help gain an understanding of the needs of people working in this area and what can be done to support. In 2010, the British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health, led on the development of a toolkit to support professionals in developing high quality exercise referral schemes. This resource is still hugely popular but the past 12 years has seen huge leaps forwards in the way in which the sector operates. There has been the emergence of new physical activity and sports strategies, changes in health service structures and the emergence of social prescribing. Loughborough University is working with Move Consulting on a project to understand the need and scope for the redevelopment of a new toolkit for the creation of ‘supported pathways’ for people to develop a physically active lifestyle. The survey is open to people working in all aspects of exercise referral including referring healthcare professionals, exercise professionals, scheme coordinators and commissioners. It should take around 15 minutes to complete and is really important in helping shape this key physical activity guidance. International Sport and Exercise Science Industry SurveyThe International Confederation of Sport and Exercise Science Practice (ICSESP) have put together a study to help inform a globally representative strategy and build their membership base. The ICSESP Directors are keen to understand more from those who work in sport and exercise science across the globe. Year-long creative project set to begin on the Bristol and Bath Railway PathMangotsfield Station in South Gloucestershire will soon play host to a 12-month creative project, encouraging more people to walk, wheel or cycle on the popular stretch of National Cycle Network Route 4. The project will create an adaptable space suitable for artist takeovers, classes, lectures, performances, cinema screenings and workshops, enabling artistic and intellectual exchange. Sustrans is working together with partners to encourage more people, whether they are walking, wheeling or cycling, to visit and enjoy National Cycle Network Route 4 between the cities of Bristol and Bath. The State of Adventure Playgrounds in EnglandIn November 2021 Play England commissioned research into the spread of adventure playgrounds in England, with a view to updating and expanding on records compiled in 2017. This was both to update information held and to form the basis for an adventure playground network, which might offer a peer support mechanism as well as a means for Play England to assess needs and update the sector on government policy. A report summarising the key findings has been published. New images showing older and disabled people getting active releasedAgeing Better, together with Get Yourself Active at Disability Rights UK, have launched Picture Yourself Active: a new, publicly accessible image library of over 300 photos depicting older and Disabled people getting active to challenge pervasive negative stereotypes. The two organisations are making the bank of images available from to encourage journalists, organisations and society to move away from damaging unrepresentative imagery and embrace more realistic depictions of later life and disability. Paths for All calls on local election candidates to champion walkingPaths for All want to see communities where everyone has the opportunity and capability to be active everyday for healthier, happier and greener local communities. Paths for All call to candidates in Scotland's May local elections Walking Forward details the huge benefits walking brings for people and communities and sets out ways that candidates can support people to walk more for recreation and travel. Open Goal: Sport and physical activity can help create a fairer futureActive Partnerships will mark the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) on April 6th by supporting the launch of the ‘Open Goal’ campaign. Open Goal has been created by Active Partnerships and other members of the Sport for Development Coalition to showcase how sport and physical activity can contribute to building a fairer, more equitable and sustainable future. You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive it either via the SSEHS Active website or the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (East Midlands) website. Read our privacy policy. |