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said Joshua. “It is about the discipline and regiment it teaches you. The lifestyle of an
athlete can be taken into any walk of life. It’s about how you can improve yourself as an 25
individual through the power of sport.”
Fund to diversify sport and physical activity workforce
Fund to diversify sport and physical activity workforce
National Lottery funding available to engage women and/or
National Lottery funding available to engage women and/or
BAME communities in positive workforce opportunities
BAME communities in positive workforce opportunities
We’re making up to £1 million available to diversify coaches and volunteers in the sport and
physical activity sector. Our Workforce Diversity Great Ideas Fund will be open for a month,
from today, and we want to hear from anyone wanting to engage women and/or BAME commu-
nities in volunteering or coaching opportunities.
With both Coaching Week and Volunteers’
Week taking place now, the National Lottery funding
has been allocated to address the fragmented
workforce – partly comprised of coaches and vol-
unteers – that is currently lacking diversity.
We regularly hear fantastic stories of women
and people from BAME communities getting in-
volved and making a difference to people around
them.
But we know that there are barriers facing
them in getting started, so we're keen to find ways
that we can support more people from these back-
grounds into the sport and physical activity work-
force, and to help ensure they have a really positive experience once they're engaged.
Trying new things - "Learning what works to engage and support these audiences into vol-
unteering and coaching is key and we want to work with you to learn what approaches work
and why,” said our head of coaching Stuart Armstrong.
“There are any number of potential learning opportunities. Maybe you’re planning an un-
usual partnership, or want to test ways of using new technology to get women engaged in vol-
unteering. “Perhaps your organisation has never had any connection with sport before, but has
something different to offer within a sport or physical activity setting. “Whatever your ideas, we’re
keen to find out what we can discover together. Final decisions on funding will then be made in
October and November.
Pilot programme aims to get older people active
Pilot programme aims to get older people active
Japanese radio inspires new fitness programme
Japanese radio inspires new fitness programme
Japanese radio provides inspiration for new programme targeting inactivity in over 55s with 10-
minute workouts. We're investing nearly a quarter of a million pounds in a new six-month pilot
aimed at getting
People aged 55 and over more active
People aged 55 and over more active
The product of a collaboration between us, Demos and Anchor Hanover, 10 Today provides a
series of easy, accessible and enjoyable 10-minute exercise broadcasts – for both radio and
online – which can be followed almost anywhere and at any time.
Inspired by Radio Taiso, an established and evidence-based national daily exercise broad-
cast on Japanese radio, 10 Today has been produced and led by older people, for older people.
It aims to increase physical activity among older people across the country, helping to reduce
social isolation and improve the physical and mental wellbeing of participants.
Active lifestyles
Active lifestyles
“Maintaining an active lifestyle as you grow older delivers massive health benefits,” said our ex-
ecutive director for tackling inactivity, Mike Diaper. “While we have seen more older adults getting
active than ever before, there are still too many who aren’t doing 30 minutes of activity a week.