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Focus on: Tackling inactivity round two
In the fourth of our series looking at our Active Nation funding, we take a closer look at the second round of our funding to tackle inactivity.
We know that people on a low income or no income at all are less likely to take part in sport and physical activity than those earning more.
Our Active Lives figures show 32% of people in semi-routine and routine occupations, such as shop assistants and waitresses, are inactive. That compares to 17% of people in managerial and professional occupations.
That’s why we’ll soon be launching Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage, the second round of our inactivity fund. It will support inactive people who have little income and are therefore economically disadvantaged. This group make up a third of the population in England aged 16 to 74 – 14.6 million people.
This fund is about more than getting people active – at the heart of it is using sport and physical activity to improve lives and communities.
We know sport and physical activity can be extremely powerful in supporting positive social change for communities and individuals – and we want potential partners to tell us how they’ll do this.
That could mean using sport to improve someone’s mental wellbeing, help drive down crime rates in an area, or reduce social isolation in rural communities.
We want to work with community organisations who have a proven reach into the communities and with the individuals we are targeting. This means we’re expecting applications from a wide range of organisations, including non-sports organisations that we likely will not have worked with before.
