No images? Click here Your weekly physical activity bulletin26 March 2024 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 X @NCSEM_PAnews Loughborough joins global consortium tackling physical inactivity and unhealthy diets of adolescents in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe Generation H project, funded via a £3 million Euro grant, will focus on improving physical inactivity and unhealthy diets among adolescents, in diverse socio-economic urban settings in Ghana (Greater Accra region) and Kenya (Nairobi), to reduce the risk of them developing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in adulthood. NCDs, such as heart disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes, are the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 41 million deaths per year, which is equivalent to 74% of all deaths globally. They also disproportionately affect people in low- and middle-income countries.* The multi-intervention project will harness the collective expertise of the consortium members, to deliver educational programmes, community engagement initiatives, policy advocacy, and collaborations with educational, faith-based, and healthcare institutions, to reduce unhealthy diets and physical inactivity, and their underlying social determinants. New funding secures future for ‘life changing’ veterans’ support programmeA mental wellbeing support programme for military veterans, created by Loughborough University and the Royal Air Forces Association, has secured further funding. The investment by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust means six new residential programmes for former members of all three military services – the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force – can take place at the campus over the next two years. For the programme small groups of veterans will visit Loughborough for a two-day stay, where they will take part in a range of activities, including social resilience workshops, practical healthy cooking lessons, sessions on improving sleep quality and team-based physical activity such as wheelchair basketball, walking football and pilates. Swimming Pool Support Fund helps facilities prepare for futureMore than 300 swimming pools and leisure centres in England have received grants to help boost their energy efficiency and keep running costs down. The money has come from the £60.5 million Phase II of the Swimming Pool Support Fund (SPSF) and has been split between 325 pools from more than 260 local authorities. These grants, which range in size from £3,000 to nearly £1m, have helped to fund projects such as installing solar panels, pool covers, LED lighting and improving insulation. With the increase in energy costs over recent years, the Government announced the fund a year ago with the intention of both helping keep pools open in the face of financial challenges, as well as funding longer-term projects to help reduce future energy bills. Enhancing PE provision and improving access to extracurricular sport in schoolThe Department of Education have released new non-statutory guidance for schools. 'Enhancing PE provision and improving access to extracurricular sport in school', provides school leaders with insight into the importance of being active for the education and development of young people. The document informs schools how to meet the ambitions of the national curriculum and the CMOs’ physical activity guidelines by showcasing case studies of how this has been successfully achieved. The guidance will set out a variety of schools’ approaches of embedding PE, physical activity and sport into their culture, ethos, and values, and it will set out how they approach delivering: • a minimum 2 hours of PE per week during curriculum time, and • equality of access to PE and extra-curricular school sport and competition. The weekly physical activity bulletin in a summary of news stories that appear across the physical activity sector. The National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. |