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Stepping up our support for places to tackle inactivity
We’re investing £25 million in our Place Universal Offer until 2028, working with 30 Active Partnerships and other local organisations to drive community-led change.
Local authorities
Place-based working
Uniting the Movement
New guide to creating safer gym and leisure spaces for women
The This Girl Can campaign worked with ukactive to help facilities better communicate policies on harassment and intimidation.
Facilities
Gender
Research
This Girl Can
Sport England leadership team changes
The organisation will be restructured alongside the changes to the executive team.
Uniting the Movement
How our funding is supporting Olympic pathways
Learn about the role we play in backing aspiring winter sports athletes through our investment of National Lottery and Government funding into talent and support programmes.
Disability
Funding
National governing bodies
Five years of Uniting the Movement
We’re five years into our ongoing mission to ensure everyone can play sport and take part in physical activity – and later this year we’ll be unveiling our plan for the next phase.
Uniting the Movement
This Girl Can's push in support of new and expectant mothers
Our groundbreaking campaign is shining a light on the fact that over half of pregnant women and new mums on lower incomes feel excluded from sport and physical activity.
Research
This Girl Can
Board members reappointed as two depart
The reappointments have been made by the Secretary of State and took effect from 1 January 2026.
Government
Importance of protecting playing fields reiterated
The latest data indicate our role as a statutory consultee saw 94% of all concluded planning applications involving playing fields result in the protection or improvement of facilities.
Government
Local authorities
Planning
Tackling inactivity
Three-year funding extension for We Are Undefeatable
We've awarded three more years of National Lottery funding to the campaign that supports people living with long-term health conditions to be more active.
Funding
Health conditions
Children’s activity levels rising but inactivity remains too high
More children than ever are taking part, but too many are missing out on the benefits of an active lifestyle.
Children and young people
Gender
Health conditions
Lower socio-economic groups
Research
Tackling inactivity
Uniting the Movement
Place expansion continues with 27 new partnerships
We've announced more partnerships with places across the country where we'll work directly with communities to tackle high rates of inactivity.
Funding
Place-based working
Uniting the Movement
New guidance on achieving greater diversity and inclusion
We've produced a new resource with UK Sport that aims to help sport and physical activity organisations develop plans to embed inclusion at every level.
Governance
Research
Chair issues statement on statutory consultee consultation
Our chair publishes statement following opening of Government's planning reform consultation.
Government
Planning
Health, wealth and happiness - the £123bn value of activity
The latest figures come from the second year of our social value model, which also shows a potential extra £20 billion of social value available by tackling inequalities.
Funding
Government
Research
Tackling inactivity
Uniting the Movement
Public leisure centres helping to tackle inequalities
The figures come from our latest Moving Communities report, which also shows an increase in women using the facilities, quality of facilities and highlights their value to society.
Facilities
Local authorities
Research
Tackling inactivity
Chloe Kelly surprises team with Lottery funding announcement
The England international made a shock appearance at Saving Souls Hub to tell them they were the recipients of National Lottery money that has been awarded via Sport England.
Funding
Chair backs new government campaign to keep families active
Let's Move uses real families as inspiration for how to stay active during the autumn and winter months, when parents expect their children's activity levels to dip.
Government
Uniting the Movement
This Girl Can calls for action on women's freedom to be active after dark
Let's Lift the Curfew returns with a renewed call for action on women’s safety and freedom to be active after dark.
Gender
This Girl Can
Chair: Let's fight back on climate change
Chris Boardman warns extreme weather will exacerbate the national inactivity crisis – but believes our sector has huge potential to change this.
Funding
Sustainability
Chair and director of Safe Sport project appointed
Nick Pink and Neil Cooper will lead the next steps in the collective mission to create a safe, supportive sporting environment across the UK.
Governance
OpenActive secures fresh funding boost
We’ve invested a further £700,000 in the sector-wide initiative that aims to make it easier for people to find opportunities to get active through better use of data.
Funding
Health conditions
Tackling inactivity
Uniting the Movement
New agreement to tackle inactivity in West Yorkshire
We’ve signed a joint pledge to embed sport and physical activity into the everyday lives of people across West Yorkshire, building on our investment in the region.
Funding
Government
Local authorities
Uniting the Movement
NBA to invest in UK grassroots basketball
The decision follows talks between the NBA Commissioner and Prime Minister Keir Starmer in July.
Funding
Government
This Girl Can is back with major new advertising push
We've launched a major new national TV, outdoor and digital campaign called We Like the Way You Move.
Gender
This Girl Can
New chief executive takes up post
Simon Hayes joins Sport England from his previous role as chief executive of HM Land Registry.
Government
Uniting the Movement
Three new members appointed to our Board
The appointees bring a wealth of experience and will help set our direction over the next three years.
Government
Uniting the Movement
From grassroots to greatness - a rugby revolution
As the Women’s Rugby World Cup kicks off today in Sunderland, we're witnessing the culmination of three decades of National Lottery support that’s transformed women and girls' rugby from the grassroots up.
Funding
National governing bodies
New partnership to support pregnant women to be active
We'll work with the charity to better support pregnant women and new mums to be active and reduce inequalities in their activity levels.
Gender
Tackling inactivity
Tim Hollingsworth leaves role as chief executive
The driving force behind our Uniting the Movement strategy concludes his time with us after more than six years.
Uniting the Movement
New guidance for gyms and leisure centres to make safer spaces for women and girls
This Girl Can has helped produce tools and training to ensure facilities are safer for all women.
Facilities
This Girl Can
Chair writes to Ofcom about online abuse of women's footballers
Read Chris Boardman's letter to Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes DCB expressing concern about recent online abuse directed towards the England Women's football team.
Gender
This Girl Can
Whyte Review: update on 19 commitments
We and UK Sport have provided an update on the 19 policy commitments we made in 2023, after commissioning the Whyte Review to look into abuse in gymnastics.
Children and young people
National governing bodies
New partnership to transform health in South Yorkshire
We've announced a major collaboration with the region's mayoral combined authority and integrated care board to increase activity levels and improve lives.
Funding
Government
Uniting the Movement
Coronation Street to host celebration of grassroots football investment
Representatives of clubs from England and Wales will meet at Coronation Street tomorrow to celebrate National Lottery funding of the game, enabling pathways from local pitches to international tournaments.
Funding
National governing bodies
Uniting the Movement
Chris Boardman reappointed as our Chair
The Secretary of State has designated the active travel and sustainability advocate to lead our Board until 2029.
Government
Sustainability
Uniting the Movement
Chief executive's letter to Select Committee in full
Our chief executive Tim Hollingsworth has written to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee following his appearance at the 'Game On' inquiry.
Government
New £5m scheme to help leaders tackle inequalities
Leading the Movement will support and connect decision-makers working to make sport and physical activity accessible and inclusive to everyone.
Funding
Tackling inactivity
Uniting the Movement
Bold new vision for safe sport unveiled
The first findings of the Safe Sport project, which aims to establish a unified approach to safeguarding in sport, have been published.
Governance
Chair welcomes major government investment in grassroots sport
The government has committed £400 million to new and upgraded grassroots sport facilities across the UK, alongside £500m to support world-class sporting events.
Facilities
Funding
Government
New fund to create 'world's greenest sports industry'
Our chair Chris Boardman has announced up to £16 million from our Movement Fund will be reserved to help the sector respond to the impact of climate change.
Sustainability
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