London, UK: 18th October 2024 — Nominations are now open for the London Sport Awards 2025, which includes a new category to spotlight the important role of Active Design in helping people lead healthier and more active lives.
London Sport is a charity helping all Londoners live longer, healthier, and happier lives through being active, with a focus on children and adults in the most deprived communities who face the greatest challenges of inequality. London Sport’s annual Awards celebrate the inspiring stories of those improving the lives of Londoners through sport and physical activity.
There are ten categories open for nominations before 24 November 2024, including the Volunteer of the Year, the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Business Contribution Award, and the newly established Active Design Award.
The Active Design Award category recognises outstanding projects that promote physical activity, health, and well-being through innovative design solutions. This category highlights designs in various sectors—urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture —that encourage movement and active lifestyles.
Chris Donkin, London Sport’s Strategic Lead for Active Environments said:
“London Sport has added the Active Design Award, to celebrate organisations and projects that are working to ensure that communities have an environment that encourages physical movement and have access to provision of safe, inclusive and accessible facilities and spaces, which is key to promoting positive wellbeing throughout that community.
One of the challenges that London Sport is trying to address through its work is that the principles of Active Design are not always being implemented to enable more opportunities for Londoners to be active through the wider built environment. We want to recognise best practice from the planners, designers and other built environment professionals who have created and maintained active environments in the places and spaces they are working in within London.”
Nomination criteria
Nominees should demonstrate some, or all of the following criteria:
- The nomination must detail completed projects and activities that have taken place between 1st September 2023 and 1st October 2024.
- Projects that create or enhance environments to support physical activity
- Projects that apply and implement the Active Design principles. (Further details on Sport England’s 10 principles of Active Design can be found here.)
- Projects that develop or transform environments to support physical activity, promoting accessibility and inclusivity for diverse communities
- Projects that creatively utilise non-traditional spaces to broaden access to physical activity for those who are typically less active.
- Projects with demonstrable and measurable impacts such as improving active transport routes
- Initiatives that make a demonstrative, positive impact on the health and wellbeing of London’s most underserved populations by reducing barriers to an active lifestyle
- The delivery of a project that evidences a demonstratable and measurable impact on the reduction of carbon emissions (OR climate change and pollution).
Supported by the City of London Corporation, the 2025 London Sport Awards will once again be hosted at the spectacular Guildhall on 27 March 2025.
The awards are free and easy to enter; simply submit your nomination here before 24 November 2024.
We are also once again inviting organisations to sponsor award categories. If you would like to sponsor the Active Design Award category, please get in touch with a member of the team below.
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About London Sport
London Sport is a charity helping all Londoners live longer, healthier, and happier lives through being active, with a focus on children and adults in the most deprived communities who face the greatest challenges of inequality. It tackles disparities between access and opportunity in physical activity and sport, as a solution to wider societal inequalities.
It is supported by Sport England and the Mayor of London, and collaborates with London’s local authorities and other organisations, to remove barriers and provide fairer access to sport and physical activity across the capital. Its work specifically addresses underlying inequalities in sporting provision, particularly for those in underserved communities who face the greatest challenges to leading an active life.
For more information on London Sport, visit www.londonsport.org.
About the City of London Corporation
The City of London Corporation is the governing body of the Square Mile, dedicated to a vibrant and thriving City, supporting a diverse and sustainable London within a globally successful UK. www.cityoflondon.gov
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