Refreshments served in the Atrium

Why Sports 2023 - Unlocking The Potential

• Welcome to the Conference

• Local Government's vision and commitments to sports, leisure and physical activity. 

• Opportunities for partners to understand policy objectives to deliver on shared priorities.

• A quarter of the way through our ten-year plan.

• What are the lessons we have learned?

• What has been our collective impact?

• Supporting the transition to Net Zero Carbon in Leisure Facilities

• Healthy Britain - A New Approach to Health and Well-Being Policy

Served in the Atrium

• A systems approach to ‘moving communities more’

• The importance of high-quality public-funded facilities to meet the local need

• Supporting a sustainable and valued offer – top tips!

• Case studies on facility approaches to support a sustained offer to ‘move communities more’

• What do we mean by an Active Environment?

• Public Sector context.

• Transforming existing services and environments - who and what it takes.

• Case studies for change.

• How the sports and leisure industry can contribute to the UK's Zero Carbon goals.

• How ukactive’s Research Institute used data to support the sector.

• The role of benchmarking across the sector.

• What we can learn from consumer engagement.

• Where data is supporting the development and implementation of ‘MSK Hubs’.

• Challenges facing Public Sector Leisure, how can the sector champion and drive forward the agenda for transformation?

• The opportunities for continued investment in public sector facilities

• What was happening before the pandemic, how operators have delivered construction projects during the last 3 years, and what is in store for the future.

• What is 'insight' and why does it matter?

• Limitations of the status quo

• What can movement data tell us?

• Strategic and operational applications of movement data 

• What works where, for who? Building our collective understanding of infrastructure and its varying impact on communities. 

• Local skills development plans 

• Local skills accountability boards

• The devolution of the adult education and skills budget 

• Our work with further and higher education

• The latest research from women working in the football industry

• The reality and what needs to change

• What you can do to include women more effectively in the workplace

• Understanding their barriers

• Striving to create the environment

• Creating a lasting impact

• Introduction to nature’s role in Healthy Place-making (linking health, nature and climate resilience)

• Health and Well-being: Highlighting the impact of the built environment on physical and mental health outcomes.

• Exploring strategies to create environments that foster healthy behaviours and improve overall well-being.

• Green and Open Spaces: Highlighting the benefits of incorporating green infrastructure, parks, and open spaces in community design, including improved air quality, stress reduction, and opportunities for physical activity and social interaction.

• The importance of creating active spaces 

• The importance of health and well-being within the local plan process 

• The practical and financial challenges to be overcome in making it work 

• What does healthy place making look like?

• A series of short story projects from around the UK. Edinburgh, London, Leeds and Manchester

• Joining up the dots of health and well-being 

• Active travel, green and blue infrastructure

• Creating thriving places for people and nature

• Served in the Atrium

• Introduction to the work of the charity (Youth Sport Trust)

• #WhenWePlayLifeGetsBetter

• Why it is so essential we nurture active environments in education

• The evidence base

• The principles and progress of the Well School Movement

• What is CPOMS 

• How can CPOMS support club welfare officers

• Customisation 

• Chronology 

• Role-Based Access

• Reporting

• Audit Controls

• Tournament and Event Recording

• The Data Gap: Recognising the lack of facilities for teenage girls

• Why does involving teenage Girls have a benefit to the whole community?

• Impact of sports and physical activity on the Well-being and empowerment of teenage girls

• Introducing Kore: A transformational solution

• How community sports organisations can act as cross-policy connectors and grow their capability – joined-up government at a neighbourhood level

• Safe spaces to play, somewhere to go, something to do, someone to trust – key lessons from the Chiles, Webster, Batson Commission

• Implementing the insight from 1000 Young Voices – the value of genuine youth engagement to stronger more active communities

• Ill health, inequalities and climate change are stretching the resilience of councils and communities across the UK.

• Understand how to empower communities and leaders to agree on shared challenges and deliver meaningful change – using engagement and insight.

• Learn about how Merton is using data to improve public health and place.

• Hear from Burnley LDP on their whole town approach #OutdoorTown bringing partners together around a shared vision and working at scale.

• Hear about Intelligent Health’s system partner shift, using Beat the Street as a transformational tool that helps build capacity and capability.

• The presentation topics are to be confirmed

• Exploring how Active Partnerships play a core systemic role in improving the health of their communities in place.

• Optimising our PA untapped workforce as the first mile of healthcare.

• Sharing an action-orientated approach.

• Thousands of seniors from countries worldwide compete each year for glory and personal triumphs.

• How, where and why? Learn about the Road World for Seniors and how it improves the quality of life for older people and people living with dementia.

• This Girl Can and EMD UK developed an empowering group exercise product – This Girl Can Classes.

• Learn how it’s bringing previously nervous and inactive women into physical activity.

• Insight shows that the fear of judgement is a significant barrier to women getting active – understand how we’re overcoming this.

• Thank you for supporting the Why Sports 2023 Conference