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Insight Newsletter - May Edition

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Our monthly Insight Newsletter is back! We would like to welcome our new Development Officer (Insight and Evaluation), Georgina Winter. Having been a member of the Active Suffolk team for two years now, Georgina is excited to be taking on this role in helping to shape and support physical activity in Suffolk.

Here are a few things you may have missed, whilst we were away:

•	Sport England released the results of their latest Adult Active Lives Survey for November 21-22
•	Census Data 2021 has begun to be released at different geographies
•	Parkinson's UK reopen their physical activity grants programme for 2023

We can also look forward to the report release for Activity Alliance's fourth Annual Disability and Activity Survey for 2022-23. Find out more about the upcoming release and briefing below.

As ever, if you have an Insight question - or wish for a particular topic to be discussed in a future newsletter, do get in touch with us HERE.

Adult Active Lives Data for 2021 -22 Released

At the end of April, Sport England released the latest Active Lives Survey data for all adults in England between November 2021 to November 2022. The report produced by Sport England indicates that nationally Activity levels for adults in England increased last year and have bounced back to where they were before the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

In Suffolk, 64.5% of adults were meeting chief medical officer recommendations of 150+ minutes of physical activity each week, an increase of 4.7% from the survey's data in the previous 12 months. Nationally, 63.1% of adults are classified as active, with Suffolk now 1.4% above the national average.

Data can be viewed within our report on the Suffolk breakdown, which can be viewed by clicking the adjacent image - this provides local authority level data, as well as a nearest neighbour analysis, and Eastern Region Active Partnership comparison.

An interactive PowerBI dashboard of the data can be viewed HERE.

Meanwhile, the Sport England Adult Active Lives Survey report can be viewed by clicking HERE.

Would you like a say in improving the Active Lives Survey?

Sport England want your help in making their Active Lives Survey work better for you. Sport England have launched a consultation with users of their Active Lives Adult Survey to help to ensure it meets the needs of both themselves and the users of the statistics.

The consultation will run until midnight on Sunday 30th July 2023 and will consider whether to reduce the minimum sample size for each local authority area (maintaining the overall size of the survey) and reallocate the remaining sample to places of greatest need and/or areas with the largest populations.

To find out more and to take part in the consultation, click HERE.

Launch date and briefing announced for Activity Alliance's Annual Disability and Activity Survey

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On Tuesday 13th June, Activity Alliance will launch their fourth Annual Activity and Disability Survey report for 2022-23. This report will provide detailed insight into changes in disabled people's perceptions and experiences of sport and activity since last year and since before the pandemic. It's release compliments the recent release of Sport England's Active Lives Adult Survey data, helping us understand why disabled people are still twice as likely to be inactive as non-disabled people.

This years report will also cover new topics that disabled people told Activity Alliance were most important to them, these include how activity is affected by:

•	Personal finances and the rising cost-of-living
•	Physical health and healthcare professionals
•	Mental health and wellbeing
•	Co-production, influence, and representation

If you would like to be able to explore the survey findings and actions further, Activity Alliance are hosting a free online research briefing on Monday 19th June from 2pm - 3pm. This briefing is aimed at anyone interested in or working to increase participation and improve experiences for disabled people in sport and activity, whether this is at a strategic or delivery level. Sign up for the online briefing event HERE.

Suffolk Census Data 2021

Census data from 2021 is now being released in phases and is available at different geographies.

If you would like to find out more about how Suffolk has changed over the last 10 years, check out Healthy Suffolk's Profile and Summary Reports HERE.

Cannot find what you are looking for?

Data continues to be released by the Office for National Statistics, to find out when the latest data will be published take a look at their Release Calendar.

Parkinson’s UK reopens physical activity grants for 2023

The Parkinson's UK physical activity grants programme is open once again! With the aim of helping people with Parkinson's to get active and stay active; this scheme is able to support the development of fun and enjoyable physical activity opportunities at a local level.

The charity are able to provide grants of up to £3,000 to support physical activity projects for people with Parkinson's all over the UK.

The application window for 2023 is now open, and will remain open until 30 November 2023.

To find out more, please visit their website here: https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/information-and-support/physical-activity-grants or contact the Parkinson's UK Physical Activity team at physicalactivity@parkinsons.org.uk

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Active Skills funding supports Cancer Rehabilitation Exercise Instructor to deliver accessible exercise sessions for clients

Richard Farrar, who established Move More For Health so that he could help people become more physically active to feel better about themselves, reduce the chances of experiencing ill health and to live a fuller life felt that he wanted to become better equipped at helping those clients with cancer to access exercise.