Movement Hub

In order to focus our investment and resources on the communities that need it most, we’ve significantly increased the number of places across England that we partner with.

We started with 12 local delivery pilots and we scaling up to almost 100.

Click the link below to explore what we've learned from our work in places so far, and how that's impacting what we're doing now.

The inequalities metric was launched to tackle inequalities in sport and physical activity participation.

This innovative approach recognises the intersectionality of individuals' characteristics and aims to create a comprehensive measure of inequalities.

Our goal is to ensure that everyone can benefit from sports and physical activities.

So if you need information to help support a grant application, or you want to know more about how we're using it, just click below.

Our 10-year vision to transform lives and communities through sport and physical activity.

Remind yourself of the strategy itself, our two implementation plans so far and find out how we developed Uniting the Movement with more than 150 conversations with partners and stakeholders.

In 2021 we undertook a horizon-scanning project, to provide foresight on the trends that will impact sport and physical activity to 2031 and beyond.

The project explored the implications for the sector and helped us to identify and understand future strategic issues – ensuring we’re fit to face the future.

What are whole systems and place-based approaches and how might they enable sustainable reductions in health inequalities?

The Evaluating Complexity website has been created to share learning and resources from the National Evaluation and Learning Partnership's (NELP) work with us and people working in local Place Partnerships to develop whole-system, place-based approaches to reducing inequalities in physical activity.

It includes tools and resources for realist-informed evaluation methods including configurational comparative analysis and participatory methods.

Our 'Evaluation and learning' library is the best place to find out more about our previous investments and what we learned from them.

Whether you want to know what we learned from our Families Fund investments, the results of our swim pilots that tried new ways to get people using their local pool, or how you can help disabled people or people with long-term health conditions to be more active, we've got a report that can help you.

There's a lot to consider when you're planning or developing a sports facility, no matter its size or purpose.

So we've compiled guidance on everything from artificial lighting and outdoor surfaces, to sports halls and swimming pools.

Our 'Facilities and planning' section also has cost guidance, as well as guidance on planning applications that impact on sporting provision in your area.

Where we live, work, travel and play has a major role in shaping our activity choices.

By applying Active Design’s 10 principles to our built and natural environments, we can create active environments that encourage people to be active through their everyday lives. 

This comes with a shared belief and commitment to the great value that well-designed places can have on health and wellbeing.

Our Active Places Power database holds information on about 115,000 sports facilities, located at around 41,000 sites.

The website is designed to provide those involved in sport provision with a series of tools to guide investment decisions and develop sport provision strategies.

If you want to find out more about your local area – how many people are active, what sort of activities they do or what demographics are most prevalent in your local population, our tools can help you.

Our Active Lives Online tool lets you interrogate our Active Lives data, while our Local Area Insights can tell you all you need to know to help you with a grant application, advocate for facilities or help you understand the people in your area.

Our Moving Communities service measures public leisure’s contribution to active communities.

It's driven by the largest data set ever gathered for the local leisure sector and was initially launched in March 2021 to support the National Leisure Recovery Fund.

Working collaboratively, this data enables local authorities, leisure providers and policymakers to understand their performance and how this compares with national, operational and nearest neighbour benchmarks.

The Physical Literacy Consensus Statement for England has been developed to facilitate a shared understanding of physical literacy for those working in the sport, education, physical activity, recreation, play, health and youth sectors.

The statement is intended for colleagues who work in policy, sport development, research and practice.

It helps us to recognise that everyone has a unique and complex relationship with sport, physical activity and movement.

Play Their Way aims to kick-start a movement of child-first coaches, organisations and people changing the game from the ground up.

We believe that building a grassroots movement of child-first coaches across the country is the key to getting more children active.

That's why we're part of the coaching collaborative behind the Play Their Way campaign that provides the support and resources coaches need to achieve our shared vision of increasing activity levels of children and young people, and giving more of them a positive experience of physical activity and sport.

In 2023 the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) published their insight report into the workforce.

It gives key insights into how diverse and representative it is and the challenges faced as it recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic.