This is a two-part workshop - please ensure to book on for BOTH dates

Sport England are partnering with 80 new places in England through their Place Partnership investment, focusing resources on the communities that need it most, the areas with higher inactivity and inequality levels and other social need indicators - including Knowsley.

Pilot work has shown that when understood and used in the right way, local identities and structures can be central to unlocking sustainable solutions to creating more active cultures, behaviours and environments. Local leaders have a pivotal role to play in helping to tackling inequalities and inactivity in their place.

This course aims to help leaders to facilitate change across local systems to help address inequality in sport and physical activity. It provides leaders with:

An introduction to systems leadership principles and practice.

A chance to form place-based network relationships and share learning.

A starting point, or catalyst for more, place-based whole systems working

Outcomes for the community leaders include:

• Learn and understand more about the national and local contexts they’re operating within.

• Gain a greater shared understand of the existing local assets (buildings, community, venues, parks, open spaces, people) that can be used to support physical activity.

• Consider the complexity of physical activity (and inactivity) habits and behaviours, and the different local systems that influence them.

• Consider the role and importance of leaders at all levels in their place.

• Feel more confident to influence upwards and make collective decision that support people being active.

• Think about ways in which decision making can be distributed, with more contributions from more people to better reflect the lived experience of local communities.

• Hear examples and case studies from other places who have used place-based and whole system approaches to activate change.

• Feel empowered about how they can act in the system, identify leverage points, establish and strengthen local networks, build common purpose and influence others.

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