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Resources, blogs & insights

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Become Fall-Proof with the Fall-Proof Strength and Balance Plan

Active Gloucestershire are encouraging people at risk of falls, to take a step towards a stronger, more independent future with the Fall-Proof plan.
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Activity on Referral: A Program that supports Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

Active Gloucestershire has been working across the county to support children and young people’s wellbeing.
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Celebrating Pride 2023: Being an inclusive sports organisation

Here are some top tips on how to create a safe and inclusive space where everyone can be their authentic selves.
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Changing the game for young volunteers

Active Gloucestershire are working in partnership with local charity to provide young people with disabilities the opportunity to volunteer in local s
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Active Lives Survey: Latest figures on physical activity levels

Sport England have released the latest Active Lives survey results which gives us key insight to the activity levels of people in England.
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World Health Day: The importance of social connections

To mark World Health Day 2023, we took a deep dive into Gloucestershire's Director of Public Health report which focuses on social connections.
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Taking a closer look at Active Environments - Active Gloucestershire’s 2023 Impact Report

Our lead for Active Environments – Richard Fishlock - introduces Active Gloucestershire’s latest impact report and explores the opportunities the work
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We can move Gloucestershire - event resources

You can find all of the presentations, session summaries and resources from the we can move event here.
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Gloucestershire Girls Can

In the UK, less women enjoy physical activity than men and we want to work together to change that.
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Insight: LGBT+ history month

February is LGBT+ history month and we wanted to share some key stats the Census 2021 collected regarding LGBT+.
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Supporting Children's mental health week

It's children's mental health week and we wanted to highlight the role physical activity plays in supporting good mental health
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We can move funding expression of interest - closing date 23rd January at 10am

Active Gloucestershire and we can move are here to help partner organisations across Gloucestershire to secure investment into physical activity,.
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Get Out Get Active launches new campaign The GOGA Way

Get Out Get Active (GOGA), a programme that aims to bring disabled and non-disabled people together to get active, is now being rolled out across Glou
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Get active this Halloween with the Gloucestershire Halloween trail

Get active this Halloween with the Halloween trail. Read more to find our how to take part.
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Our journey towards inclusive recruitment

Find out about our journey towards inclusive recruitment.
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Let's move for our mental health

Find out how being active benefits our mental health and how it has a positive impact on our mood.
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Making physical activity accessible for all

Everyone should have the opportunity to get physically active, no matter their age or ability.
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Inclusive activities in Gloucestershire 2022

Take a look at some of Gloucestershire's best inclusive activities
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Just a walk in the park

Just 10 minutes of physical activity a day can have a positive impact on our health.
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Getting active: Starting from scratch

If you are new to physical activity, here is some advice and top tips to help you get started.
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How to easily add physical activity to your daily routine

Get advice and top tips on how you can easily add physical activity to your daily routine
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Gloucestershire, let’s get active together!

We can move launch campaign to encourage people to move more
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Doing it differently: Social investment funding for Sport and physical activity

Find out more about social investment can help clubs and community organisations
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Free range children: The importance of play

We spoke to Ben at Play Gloucestershire about the importance of play and how it helps children learn and grow. Listen to the podcast here.
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Active Gloucestershire taking action to support the fight against climate change

To support Earth Day 2022, we wanted to highlight the actions we are taking to support the fight against climate change.
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Rotary in Gloucester Community Awards 2022

The aim of the Community Awards programme is to support organisations within the city area with a small grant which ‘will make a real difference’.
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Active Partnership respond to crisis in Ukraine

Active Partnerships across the country respond to the horrific crisis unfolding in Ukraine.
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Who say’s? campaign: Showcasing local providers of physical activity who champion inclusion from the core

Alice Evans, Active Gloucestershire's Disability and Inclusion Project Officer, celebrates local inclusive activity providers.
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Accessible Yoga With Sarah - challenging perceptions around disability and activity

Sarah Vallance, founder of Accessible Yoga with Sarah, supports the Who Say's campaign by challenging perceptions around disability and activity.
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Active Gloucestershire support ‘Who say’s’ campaign to challenge negative attitudes towards disabled children and young people

We are supporting the national charity Activity Alliance to call time on negative perceptions through its campaign, ‘Who says?’.
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Social Prescribing Day: How we support young people through our social prescribing project

Active Gloucestershire's Activity on Referral programme links young people with physical activity opportunities to support their mental health
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Active travel: planning for dynamic communities

Tackling the barriers to active travel involves planning and systems for change
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Introduction to activity on referral programme for children and young people

Activity on referral is a supportive programme that links young people to local activities to support their mental health.
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Health & Hustle: Achieving Goals

Through Health and Hustle, Gloucestershire patients and NHS healthcare staff are joining forces to walk, talk, run, and talk some more.
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A Facilitators Handbook

Facilitation can enable us to have better gatherings and make the most of the collective wisdom of a group.
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We need your help finding a new home for Rush Skatepark and our friends at the Grace Network

We need to find a new home for Rush Skatepark and our friends at the Grace Network.
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Evaluating the growth and impact of we can move.

The social movement we can move was conceived with the aim to create a step change in the county’s physical activity levels – has it worked?
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Tackling racism and racial diversity a personal reflection

I’ve written this blog as an opportunity to reflect on the last year and to describe my commitment to take action to tackle racism.
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Increasing active inclusion in Gloucestershire

2020 emphasised the importance of building and adapting accessible activity.
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Stand up together to create a physical activity habit for life

Together we can help create an active future for our young people.
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Improving pain through physical activity

Physical activity can have a huge impact on improving our quality of life.
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Share your Fall-proof story

Share a picture or video of yourself doing your Fall-proof exercises and receive a prize worth up to £25.
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Returning to safe play guide

Practical guidance to help you create a safe playing environment.
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Five ways to avoid becoming an office zombie!

Top tips to inject some more life into your desk job.
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Helping to get your school back on the move

Practical and easy to use advice, guidance and tips on physical activity.
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Fall-proof Move to Improve cards

Print it, fold it and keep it! Use them around your space.
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Support for your school

Working in partnership to support schools in Gloucestershire.
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The Daily Mile™ Destinations

The Daily Mile has launched a brilliant new resource to help support schools to get active.
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Clowning around during lockdown

Supporting children to be active at home during lockdown.
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School Games in lockdown and beyond

Reshaping physical activity for schools during coronavirus.
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Using your PE, sport and physical activity premium

Helping to get your school back on the move
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Making activity accessible for all

We can all do our bit to break down the barriers to making physical activity accessible for everyone.
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Supporting your club or community during Coronavirus

We can move has put together a useful resource to help you support your local club or community group.
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Keep moving, keep learning

Useful online resources to help you continue to support others to be active.
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Fall-proof exercise videos

A range of videos guiding you along the Fall-proof plan.
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Fall-proof champions

Are you an inspirational individual who want to support older adults?
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Fall-proof guide

Your easy to use strength and balance plan
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Our newsletters

The latest on physical activity, how to be a change maker and the funding available to support you.
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Coronavirus statement

Encouraging everyone in Gloucestershire to stay healthy and active at this time.
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Get funding

Without funding, even great ideas may struggle to have the impact they deserve.
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Got an idea?

Use the 'we can move' model to help you to design an intervention.
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Start something…

It could be wonderful! It’s better when there’s a group of you.
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Helping other women

How two women made a difference to their local community.
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Getting started

Two women’s journey from inactive to active
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Our principles

We have shared principles which guide how we behave.
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Why it's time to act

We are moving less and we need to do something about it.
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Have your say

Influence those who make decisions, and change how active we are.
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The brand

How the 'we can move' brand developed and how you can use it.
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Social Prescribing

Encourage your patients to take control of their health.
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Social Prescribing

Encourage your patients to take control of their health.
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Moving Medicine

Free, clear, engaging, evidence-based advice on physical activity.
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Physical Activity Clinical Champions

Help to get your patients moving.
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Active Practices

This charter can help you get patients and staff moving more, every day.
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Get curious, or risk being left behind

Debate about resurrecting the Lydney-Sharpness bridge is shining a light on the way we think about travel and health.
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Boots corner: let's question our priorities

How a challenging experiment could be providing an active alternative.
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Build active habits into your day

Deciding to be more active is a brilliant first step. Get started with these simple ideas for staying active.
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Activity on Referral: A Program that supports Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

Active Gloucestershire has been working across the county to support children and young people’s wellbeing.
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Taking a closer look at Active Environments - Active Gloucestershire’s 2023 Impact Report

Our lead for Active Environments – Richard Fishlock - introduces Active Gloucestershire’s latest impact report and explores the opportunities the work
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