Active 60 is a flagship London Sport project which focuses on creating transformational change to enable every young Londoner to achieve the nationally recommended level of 60 active minutes every day.
The Active 60 Project
The Active 60 focuses on young people who are less likely to be active and enables more young people to have a positive experience of sport and physical activity.
It is helping young people to live active lives that is critical to creating a happier, healthier and more prosperous London.
There are four inter-related themes that will enable us to deliver this outcome. These themes are all connected and will each support each other.
Our four themes:
We are creating simpler and better local systems to get every young Londoner more active.
We are:
- Working with a small number of London boroughs to produce and implement a framework that is effective to support the needs of the children and young people in that borough.
- Support specifically identified pan-London and local CYP networks and partnerships where they align with London Sport CYP objectives and the areas that we are prioritising.
We are creating places where young Londoners can be active and have fun without fear for their safety or fear of being judged.
Our work focuses on:
- Opening School Facilities: Broadening community access to school sports facilities outside of school hours.
- Levelling the Playing Field: This project uses the power of sport and physical activity to engage and improve health and life outcomes for participants who are more likely to enter, or are already involved with, the criminal justice system.
- Developing inclusive safe spaces to meet specific challenges.
Giving more young Londoners likely to be less active the opportunity to do more.
We are giving more young Londoners the opportunity to be more active, irrespective of their background, gender, race or disability.
We are making this possible by broadening the range of activities available both in schools and in the local community.
This will include:
- Highlight active school projects, sharing impact and learning from effective practice so that more schools can get involved.
- Work with national governing bodies to identify appropriate schools for their products.
- Champion the importance of fully-inclusive, free and simple initiatives which improves the physical and mental health and wellbeing of children such as The Daily Mile.
- Working with Sports Tech Hub to identify and test new activities.
- Working with youth organisations to provide sport and physical activity opportunities for their young people.
- Providing funding to organisations who work with young Londoners of all ages in parts of London where inequalities are greatest, providing more local activities for children and young people who are less likely to be active.
We are training more volunteer leaders and coaches to support SPA across London.
We do this by:
- Empowering young people across London by helping recruit, train, and deploy volunteer leaders and coaches aged 16-25 to help deliver School Games competitions.
- Providing training opportunities through partner organisations such as London Youth Games to support physical activity and sport within their borough or across London. From traditional national governing body training to media training to Youth Personality training that enables leaders and coaches to support young people who are less likely to be active, all with the intended outcome of getting more young people more active.
Active 60 Updates
BLOG: For Mental Health Awareness Week London Sport spoke to five community physical activity and sport organisations that focus on children and young people’s mental health as well as their activity levels.
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INSIGHT: Covid-19 has caused a sharp decline in the amount of activity and exercise done by children and young people in London, according to new data released today (14 January) by Sport England. Read more here.
BLOG: Specialist Advisor for Children and Young People, Gary Palmer, looks at the work being done to reduce the slide in children’s activity levels and our plans for the next 12 months to reverse this concerning trend. Read his blog.
BLOG: Specialist Advisor for Children and Young People Gary Palmer looks at how broadening access to school’s sport facilities could be a vital piece to the puzzle of re-activating our children following the period of lockdown due to the covid-19 outbreak. Read more.
BLOG: Children and Young People Project Officer Bethaney Hall looks at the task facing the physical activity and sport sector in trying to keep children and young people active whilst schools are closed and the resources available to help parents. Read her blog here.
INSIGHT: The number of inactive children in London has fallen significantly in the last academic year according to Sport England’s second annual Active Lives Children and Young People Survey released today. See the latest results.
Resources and Learnings
During the 2019/20 academic year, London Sport supported four organisations to introduce their products to primary schools in London to see how effective they were at integrating activity into the everyday life of a primary school.
Marathon Kids
Gym Run
Fitt-In
Active Movement
PE And School Sport Premium
School Sport Suppliers
With a vast range of organisations offering physical activity and sport services to London’s schools it can be time consuming for teachers to be able to use their funding in the best way.
We’ve made this easier by creating the first ever School Sport Suppliers Hub, where anyone can search for suppliers in just a few clicks. To visit the Hub click here
More information and contact details:
For more information on our Active 60 project, please contact Specialist Advisor for Children and Young People Gary on gary.palmer@londonsport.org.
