Workplace Challenge

• Mega May– Online challenge

• Business Games 27th June– Oxford Brookes Headington

Aims and Objectives• Increase participation among the inactive• Enhance the evidence base for the role of

sport for health• Engage 3,000 sedentary people and support

750 to make long term changes• Develop and implement a physical activity

pathway and ensure relevant opportunities are available

Psychological Barriers

• People don’t perceive it to be important• People are not confident enough to do it• LGM designed to remove these barriers by:

– help people explore the personal importance of a more active lifestyle

– build people’s confidence about becoming more active

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Let’s Get Moving• A behaviour change programme which

incorporates a physical activity care pathway • Integrates the recommendations of NICE public

health guidance • Has been designed to assist practitioners in

guiding inactive adults aged 16–74 towards gradually becoming more active

• Has been successfully delivered by practitioners working in primary care settings

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The physical activity continuum• There is a physical activity continuum stretching

from ‘not doing enough’ to ‘doing enough’

• Improved health and wellbeing• Improved independence

and quality of life• Less disease and disease

complications

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GO Active Get Healthy

• Focus on recruiting wider range of referrers – 60 recruited so far

• Development of PA Pathway ‘Active Participation’– Quality assuring existing activities– Developing new activities where

demand exists

Active Women

• Women with children and women in deprived areas

• 3 years of delivery• Over 5,500 women engaged• Another year to go• New website• Delivering swimming, netball,

swimming..

Physical Activity Group

• Open to all partners interested in increasing participation in physical activity for health

• New interim Chair, Rebecca Cooper

• New Healthy Weight Strategy