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Active Places Power

About Active Places Power

Primarily for local authorities and national governing bodies of sport, Active Places Power is designed to guide investment decisions and develop sports facility strategies.

It can help you build an evidence base when identifying and planning where to target interventions at facilities or clubs. It does this by using the Active Places national sport facility database.

The tools within Active Places Power have a range of capabilities, from quick searches and simple reports to a series of push-button analytical tools. These aim to make complex modelling techniques as user-friendly and intuitive as possible.

Each tool is supported with a guide, while outputs can be downloaded for use in reports or local systems for further analysis.

Watch the video below below to find out more about Active Places.

Explore Active Places Power further through our video library and support portal.

Many of the Active Places Power tools are published openly. More advanced tools require users to register. You can explore the tools and register here.

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Active Places Data Platform

The Active Places database contains information on around 41,000 sports sites nationwide, with details on 115,000 sports facilities. Keeping such a vast dataset accurate requires great teamwork.

Watch the video below to explore how we all work as a team to maintain the data.

The Active Places Data Platform is an intuitive, self-service, web-based platform used by facility owners and managers to create, edit and update the data held in Active Places.

Facility owners and managers are supported in maintaining the data by our data validation team.

Data changes made within the platform are immediately reflected within the database and are published within Active Places Power, including the tools and downloads, nightly.

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