Calderdale Physical Activity Strategy
The Calderdale Physical Activity 2008-2013 has been launched this August. Joe Collins the Chair of the Calderdale Activity Network sets the scene below, however click here to read the Calderdale Physical Activity Strategy 2008-2013 in full.
Foreword by Joe Collins,
Chair - Calderdale Activity Network
There is no doubt that involvement in sport and increasing participation in some kind of physical activity can have a positive impact in people’s lives. We are all aware of the benefits of taking part in sport – encouraging and supporting people to take up sport, developing sporting skills, to excel and to be involved ourselves too!
We are also more aware on the benefits that physical activity of all kinds can bring to our health and wellbeing and how it can make a positive impact in our everyday lives. This ‘Move it’ Strategy, and the work of the Calderdale Activity Network (CAN), is intended to provide a lead, some guidance, but most of all the support for the way forward in sport and physical activity in Calderdale. It will help and connect those taking part to those making decisions and those providing the local investment in sport.
The strategy is not a Council ‘thing’, although Calderdale Council has provided huge support, along with our many other partners, in getting things moving. It is however, a simple co-ordinated way that has brought people and organisations together. It is the work of people who have an interest in the future role of sport and physical activity based around the needs of Calderdale people.
The CAN has consulted widely on this ‘Move it’ Strategy, it mirrors some of the key priorities of the new Sport England strategy and recognises that promoting participation in sport and physical activity is one of the top 20 priorities for the Calderdale local authority. We would like to see the Strategy ‘raise the game’, create a more active Calderdale and quite simply to increase participation of people of all ages in sport and all forms of physical activity.
Click here to read the Calderdale Physical Activity Strategy 2008-2013 in full or download below.
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