Ideas to get kids active this summer

We're deep into the summer holidays - how is it going for you?! We've gathered lots of ideas to help kids get active, some don't cost a thing!

Your kids can 'train like a Jedi' with Change for Life

Click image to see how Olympic gold medalist Jade Jones guides you through 12 special moves which will help you master the ways of the Jedi!

Teach your child to ride a bike in 45 minutes - Isla Rowntree shows us at Cycling Weekly the best way. 

Click image to see the video of Isla showing how to best teach children how to ride a bike

Little Hotdog Watson has a great list of water outdoor games for little ones

Click image to be taken to the article - Pic Credit: Little Hotdog Watson @bonaofmay

Take a walk - have a look through this instagram account Routes for Little Boots  for inspiration to help kids discover and explore the amazing #Norfolk countryside, including pushchair/toddler-friendly walks and outdoor activities

Click image to find walks with Little Routes for Little Boots

WE MAKE AWARDS OF UP TO £500 TO SUPPORT SPORT AND LEISURE COMMUNITY PROJECTS TO GET MORE PEOPLE ACTIVE IN THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH. CAN YOU HELP? THE APPLICATION FORM IS HERE!

Active Norfolk shares our funding details with Norfolk

Thank you Active Norfolk for sharing news of our trust......

"Charity looking to award grants to community sports and leisure clubs in the borough of Great Yarmouth

A local Great Yarmouth charity is offering grants of up to £500 each for sports and leisure clubs in the area to help promote the benefits of active lifestyles for health and social issues. The Great Yarmouth Sport and Leisure Trust is a registered charity dedicated to improving the lives of people in the area.

The recent Active Lives Survey found that 25.7 per cent of the UK's population are considered to be inactive, doing less than 30 minutes of physical activity per week. As well as the obvious benefits for our physical health, sports promote teamwork, unity and confidence as well as boosting positivity and improving our mental wellbeing. The Great Yarmouth Sport and Leisure Trust is therefore determined to enable sports and leisure clubs to reach more people and make a bigger impact in their communities.

Graham Plant, Chairman said: "As a registered charity, our purpose is to benefit the public in the borough of Great Yarmouth. We would like to award grants to allow more people in the community access to leisure activities such as swimming, and sports clubs or activities such as cycling, grassroots football clubs and gymnastics for example. Maybe you're a club that needs new equipment. Perhaps you're a coach or a teacher wanting to start a group. We're very keen to help groups who are historically not participating in sport to get involved."

These grants will be used to support clubs, organisations or individuals who want to encourage club and sports development in the community. Applicants must provide at least 30% match funding, the grants are given four times a year in September, November, February and May (applications need to be received at least a month prior to the award month).

Sports clubs and voluntary groups can apply for up to £500 in funding. Only applications from the Borough of Great Yarmouth will be considered. Any application that is actively encouraging inactive groups to become active will be gratefully received, including those in disadvantaged groups."

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Click here to see the criteria - and here for the application form! Good luck!

Run with your community

parkrun is an inclusive event run entirely by volunteers who are all parkrunners themselves. It is not a race and anyone is welcome to come to walk, run, volunteer or spectate. With over 1.7 MILLION runners in the UK, it is a great way to start the weekend.

It is simple to register and all parkruns are free. The organisers are keen to make it accessible to all members of the community including those with disabilities and long term health conditions.

If you live in the borough of Great Yarmouth, your local parkruns are every Saturday at 9am at Gorleston Cliffs and also at Fritton Lake. 

Get active! If you haven't registered before, you can register here - see you there!

WE MAKE AWARDS OF UP TO £500 TO SUPPORT SPORT AND LEISURE COMMUNITY PROJECTS TO GET MORE PEOPLE ACTIVE IN THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH. CAN YOU HELP? THE APPLICATION FORM IS HERE!

FA says only one in three pitches at grassroots level adequate

The FA is considering selling Wembley Stadium to release funds to support community football, which we think is a great idea. But how is your pitch looking? Did you know we can help football teams in the borough of Great Yarmouth with seed funding of up to £500?

There are 21,000 grassroots clubs, 50 county FAs, 25,000 schools and 330 local authorities which are catered for by the FA and, along with the finding that only one in three grassroots pitches are of adequate quality, the FA's written evidence also highlights:

• 150,000 matches were called off last season due to poor facilities
• One in six matches are called off due to poor pitch quality
• 33 of 50 county FAs are without their own 3G pitch
• Cancelled matches account for the equivalent of 5,000,000 playing opportunities lost this year because of poor facilities
• There are half the number of 3G pitches in England than there are in Germany

"The word for grassroots football is 'crisis,'" said Kenny Saunders, who runs pressure group Save Grassroots Football. Read more about how the FA support grass roots football here

WE MAKE AWARDS OF UP TO £500 TO SUPPORT SPORT AND LEISURE COMMUNITY PROJECTS TO GET MORE PEOPLE ACTIVE IN THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH. CAN YOU HELP? THE APPLICATION FORM IS HERE!

Are you coming to the Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival!?!

Pushing Ahead helps hundreds of people build activity through walking and cycling and THEY ARE COMING to the Great Yarmouth Wheels festival on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of July!

15,000 motorbikes, vintage vehicles and modern motors come to the seafront and this year 'Pushing Ahead' are also bringing three exhibits:

FUN ZONE CHALLENGE - test your biking skills over ramps and under the cycle limbo, there is also a Learn to Ride zone

DOC SPINOFF'S TRICKY TRIKES - Test your balance and riding skills on some unusual bikes - try reverse steering, hand pedal and other wacky bikes!

FREE BIKE REPAIR SESSION - We will fix your bike and then we'll help you become more confident riding it!

Admission is free, near Britannia Pier, Anchor Gardens and the Sea Life Gardens. 

Click here for more info

If you are looking for funds to support a community sport or leisure project, apply to us today!

Can you help disabled people get active in Great Yarmouth and the Surrounds?

Research by Activity Alliance has shown that disabled people are twice as likely to be inactive as non-disabled people, but 70 per cent of disabled people want to be more active.

Psychological barriers play the biggest role in preventing disabled people from taking part in sports, however seven out of ten disabled people WANT to be more active. One in five people in Britain have an impairment - that's 11.5m disabled people.

Having an active lifestyle can have many advantages. Regular physical exercise provides social benefits and mental health improvements, including:

• Increased independence
• A reduction in stress
• A boost in self esteem
• Enhanced co-ordination
• Better strengthened balance

We can't find many opportunities in our area on the Active Alliance website - can you set up a club or a group in the borough of Great Yarmouth?

With Disability Awareness Day around the corner (July 15), now is the time to apply for your funding - the application form is here. Please get involved!

Information sourced from Active Alliance website.

Online hub of volunteering opportunities would encourage more physical activity

36% of people* said an online hub of volunteering opportunities would encourage them to do more physical activity.  

Hillingdon Slipstreamers cycling club were recognised in 2017 for their volunteering work

The Sport and Recreation Alliance's volunteer opportunity finder aims to easily connect volunteers to events and clubs they can help at, and has been launched in UK Volunteers' Week which runs from 1-7 June.  

"Sport and recreation volunteers play a big part in getting the nation more active, improving wellbeing and building communities," says Alliance chief executive Emma Boggis. "Our new volunteer opportunity finder will encourage involvement with a simple and easy way to find activities and make a real difference, including for those in the under-represented 25-34 age range. By getting this process right, we can make a happier and healthier nation while building stronger communities across the UK."  

Read more at the BBC Sport website

*The OnePoll survey asked 2,000 UK consumers aged 18 years or above in February 2018

WE MAKE AWARDS OF UP TO £500 TO SUPPORT SPORT AND LEISURE COMMUNITY PROJECTS TO GET MORE PEOPLE ACTIVE IN THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH. CAN YOU HELP? THE APPLICATION FORM IS HERE!

People in Great Yarmouth the least physically active in England, survey finds

The NHS says running, walking or cycling is vital for physical health and recommends two-and-a-half hours of exercise over a seven-day period. Picture: ANTONY KELLY

People living in Great Yarmouth are the least active in England, with more than a third failing to manage 30 minutes of exercise a week, new figures reveal. 

A national survey by Sport England found that only 48.8pc of people in the borough take part in 150 minutes of moderate activity a week.

The NHS says running, walking or cycling is vital for physical health and recommends two-and-a-half hours of exercise over a seven-day period.

Sport England’s survey found that 61.8pc of the population is meeting this target.

While Yarmouth falls well below the figure, Norfolk as a whole is much closer, with 60.8pc of people undertaking 150 minutes of physical activity a week.

Read more here in the EDP.

WE MAKE AWARDS OF UP TO £500 TO SUPPORT SPORT AND LEISURE COMMUNITY PROJECTS TO GET MORE PEOPLE ACTIVE IN THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH. CAN YOU HELP? THE APPLICATION FORM IS HERE!

Are you making sporty plans for Norfolk Day?

Norfolk Day looks HUGE!

There's an enormous list of events around the county - in our Borough we have Richardson’s Hemsby Beach Holiday Park putting on sports demonstrations and holding an open park morning if you're looking to get involved. See the full list of events other parts of the county are putting on here

Thinking about getting your team or organisation involved? Other ideas offered by the EDP are:

-Sports tournaments;

-Runs along lesser-known routes;

-Walking tours around Norfolk’s lesser-known nature hotspots;

-Activities focused on young people and children

Tell us if you're planning anything! 

We make awards of up to £500 to support sport and leisure community projects to get more people active in the Borough of Great Yarmouth. Can you help? The application form is here!

11.5m people (25.7%) are inactive across the UK

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A recent survey conducted by Sport England reports that 11.5m people in the UK (25.7%) are inactive, meaning they do less than 30 minutes of physical activity a week. 

Are you looking to help people become more active in the Borough of Great Yarmouth? Adults can achieve 150+ minutes of sports activity a week through a combination of walking, running, cycling, swimming, team sports, adventure and racket sports. 

Sports promote teamwork, unity and confidence as well as boosting health and wellbeing too.

We make awards of up to £500 to support sport and leisure community projects to get more people active in the Borough of Great Yarmouth. Can you help? The application form is here!

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