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Funding to Help Children Get Active

Our £1.5 million investment aims to get all primary schools in England involved in the fitness programme.

The Daily MileOpen in a new window is aiming to increase children's activity levels as we invest £1.5 million of National Lottery money in the groundbreaking scheme.

Earlier this month we published our first Active Lives Children and Young People report, which showed that more than 2.3 million children do fewer than 30 minutes of physical activity a day.

This new partnership with The Daily Mile will fund the recruitment of national and local coordinators to support and encourage more schools in England to sign up – with a vision of helping all 20,000 primary schools in the country to take part in an active mile a day.

“Our Active Lives Children and Young People Survey is the strongest evidence yet that not enough is being done to support our youngsters and change is needed if we’re to increase activity levels,” said our chief executive Tim Hollingsworth.

“Through getting schoolchildren to walk or run for 15 minutes every day, The Daily Mile has been proven to significantly improve fitness levels.

“As part of our support of all active mile initiatives, we are delighted to be partnering with The Daily Mile Foundation and investing £1.5 million of National Lottery money into The Daily Mile.

“We want to take the initiative to even more primary schools across the county to improve the health of thousands more children.”

Founded by former headteacher Elaine Wyllie in 2012, The Daily Mile currently helps more than 3,500 English schools reach their daily activity target.

The concept is simple, with classes heading outside to jog or run around the school grounds every day, rain or shine, at whatever pace suits the child best.

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Original article link: https://www.sportengland.org/news-and-features/news/2018/december/17/the-daily-mile-receives-15-million-investment-of-national-lottery-funding/

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