No images? Click here Your weekly physical activity bulletin21 June 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 Public lecture: Male versus Female football in Europe. What are the wellbeing, health and social values?This public lecture will be delivered by Professor Paul Downward, Professor of Economics at Loughborough University, on Tuesday July 12th at 5:30pm. Timed to coincide with the UEFA Women’s EURO taking place in England this summer, the talk will discuss the wellbeing, health and social values of male versus female football in Europe. In recent years, public policy has promoted sport participation across Europe because of benefits to health, social capital and wellbeing. This talk reports research that seeks to answer two questions connected with football in Europe.
This talk is free to attend and is open to anyone with an interest in the topic. Participants over the age of 50 needed for exercise studyThe National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) at Loughborough University is seeking healthy participants over the age of 50 for a study to test breathing patterns during different cycling exercise modes. This will help develop a potential exercise rehabilitation programme. Researchers are looking for people who are not highly trained or frequently active. Four visits to the Loughborough campus are involved, including one health screen visit and three exercise tests. You will be given information about your exercise capacity and your breathing pattern on completion of the study. Contact Dr Samantha Winter at S.L.Winter@lboro.ac.uk for more details. Sport England and UK Sport publish Whyte ReviewSport England and UK Sport, have today published the Whyte Review, an independent report they have co-commissioned, to examine allegations of mistreatment in the sport of gymnastics. The Review was commissioned following a number of deeply concerning reports about the treatment of gymnasts, from grassroots through to the elite end of the sport, with a view to understanding the experiences of those gymnasts and determining any required change. On publication of the Whyte Review, Sport England’s chief executive Tim Hollingsworth and UK Sport’s Sally Munday, provided a joint statement. On your marks, get set, go…for National School Sport Week!Thousands of schools, young people, parents, politicians, and businesses up and down the country will be raising awareness of the vital importance of PE, sport and play as National School Sport Week returns (20 to 26 June). Evidence shows that unhappy and unhealthy children don’t learn well. Through its new strategy the Youth Sport Trust is working to build back play, physical activity and school sport in children’s lives, helping them to balance the demands of a digital age, and create societal change when it comes to the place and value of PE and school sport. Coming together this week, thousands have pledged to raise awareness of the challenges ahead for young people's health and wider development, and importantly what can be done to build a sense of belonging for all children when they get active or play. Sustrans and Bosch bring e-bike charging stations to the National Cycle NetworkSustrans have partnered with Bosch eBike Systems to introduce electric bike charging stations on National Cycle Network routes across the UK. The charging stations will give e-bike riders the confidence to take long distance trips across the British countryside. The charging stations are known as PowerStations and are placed in key locations across the National Cycle Network. The stations are free to use and available to all e-bike riders. StreetGames & LifeLine collaboration aims to help more young people benefit from sports-based mentoringA new collaborative programme between StreetGames and LifeLine will support young people across Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and Redbridge for the next two years. The joint programme follows the news that LifeLine has been awarded £500,000 from the Mayor of London’s New Deal for Young People fund to deliver their award-winning SW!TCH mentoring programme to schools across the area. The New Deal for Young People fund is part of the Mayor of London’s Recovery Programme, which is designed to support Londoners most affected by the pandemic and to challenge inequalities where they are found. The aim for the New Deal for Young People is that all young Londoners in need will have access to their own personal mentor as well as high quality and local youth activities by 2024. New documentary coming soon looking into the causes of poor black swimming attainmentEd Accura has been working on a new documentary interviewing the black community as to why issues exist around barriers to swimming. Ed Accura is a London born songwriter, producer, rapper and host of ‘In The Deep Side’ podcast. He is also the screenwriter and producer of both film documentaries in the Blacks Can’t Swim franchise, directed by award-winning filmmaker Mysterex (MO-AM). Blacks Can’t Swim: REWIND is a new film documentary following two separate stories – that of both a 15-year-old boy and a girl. Both struggle with the effects of the stigmas and stereotypes that have helped shaped the narrative and thought process as to why a disproportionate number of Black and Asians in England do not swim. The film will be released on Monday 4th July. 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. |