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Funding supports community fridge and fitness project
Active Lancashire have provided £5,000 of funding to The Billy Project CIC to help them continue to provide a community fridge and run fitness sessions for women in in Mill Hill, Blackburn. The funding was sourced through Sport England’s Together Fund...
School briefing session - opening school facilities; phase 2 funding
Opening school facilities – phase 2 funding (April - August 2021) school briefing session 18th March 10.30 am – 11.30 am In light of Sport England's announcement that £10.1 million of Department for Education funding (DfE) will be invested into the...
Successful £10k funding bid supports youth mental health in Pendle
Active Lancashire bid for £10,000 funding from the National Lottery Community Fund to allow Lancashire Mind to work from Pendle YES Hub, a youth employment centre in Nelson, every Thursday. They provide free tailored one-to-one coaching to young people a...
Lancashire receives another £208k funding to help communities stay active
An additional £208k funding has been sourced by Active Lancashire to support community organisations, sports and activity clubs that work with under-represented groups of people who have been affected by the pandemic. Active Lancashire will be allocati...
Active Lancashire Provide Funding to 46 Lancashire Schools
Active Lancashire has successfully completed a second year of its Opening School Facilities funding, a scheme which has distributed £440,000 across 46 Lancashire schools. The funding enables schools to create a lasting impact on their sports and physical...
Pioneering workplace health project awarded £3 million funding
A ground-breaking new initiative that will improve the health and wellbeing of employees across Lancashire has received a multi-million pound funding boost today, Thursday 10th June. UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) healthy ageing challenge fund has ...
Pendle YES Hub celebrates after receiving National Lottery funding to support mental wellbeing in Nelson
Pendle YES Hub is celebrating a significant milestone as it receives National Lottery funding to expand its vital mental wellbeing services for young people in Nelson. The local community group, established in 2021 by Active Lancashire in partnership with...
Funding will help recycled bike shop in Accrington offer further support to communities
Active Cycles, a shop in Accrington that saves bikes from going to landfill to refurbish and sell at an affordable price, is celebrating the success of both a recent crowdfunding campaign and funding bid that will help them to provide a number of initiati...
Innovative Cycle Scheme receives confirmation of new funding
A forward-thinking cycle scheme which provides residents in some of the most deprived areas of Lancashire with a recycled bike, has been awarded funding from two sources. The Cycle Recycle Scheme, which forms part of Active Lancashire’s More Positive To...
New Active Lancashire-led employability project receives confirmation of funding
Not-for-profit organisation Active Lancashire, has been given the green light to launch an exciting new employment-focused project from January 2022. Inspired by the hugely successful More Positive Together (MPT) project, More Positive Together Steps (MP...
Club Support: Funding Webinar
Active Lancashire, in partnership with Sport Structures, will be hosting two free webinars for all Lancashire Clubs to attend on Friday 1st May. These workshops will give any club offering provision in sport and physical activity, the chance to discuss im...
More Positive Together project successfully secures more funding
Active Lancashire, the strategic lead for Sport and Physical Activity in Lancashire, has successfully secured an additional £3m from the European Social Fund to continue to deliver their flagship community project, More Positive Together. The injection ...
Funding to support Lancashire schools to open their sports facilities
Active Lancashire has been awarded a share of up to £57m worth of Opening School Facilities investment from the Department for Education, to support schools to open their sporting facilities for local community and school users outside of the normal s...
Sport England sets out Covid-19 financial support
The package is additional to any funding support provided by the Government and is made up of the following: A £20 million Community Emergency Fund, which will be opened immediately for local clubs and community organisations to bid into. Grants between...
Community Investment Fund – Emergency Community Support
Due to the current virus situation Progress Housing Group has introduced a temporary way to access funding from the Community Investment Fund. This is called ‘Emergency Community Support’. This fund is aimed at charities, community groups and local ne...
MPT One Year Celebration Event
More Positive Together is a Lancashire-wide project which will help 2,250 residents of the county’s most deprived neighbourhoods to improve their skills and employment prospects. It is led by Active Lancashire and supported by funding from the European ...
Pendle YES Hub accesses £10k to help young people with their mental health
Pendle YES Hub has successfully bid for £10k from the National Lottery’s Community Fund to provide mental health and wellbeing support to young people across the borough. The funding will enable a member of staff from Lancashire Mind to be based in th...
Children enjoy free swimming lessons in Morecambe
Nearly 50 children from Heysham and Morecambe received free swimming lessons during the school holiday as part of an initiative developed by the charity Active Lancashire that utilises funding from Sport England. Lessons took place at the Bay Leadership ...
Whitewell Bottom Community Centre
Together Housing (now Newground) received funding from Active Lancashire to run 26 weeks of Positive Together activities at Whitewell Bottom Community Centre in Rossendale. The area lacked activities for the young people loving locally and residents compl...
More Positive Together Set To Continue
Not-for-profit organisation Active Lancashire has successfully secured additional funding from the European Social Fund, to extend the thriving More Positive Together programme until December 2023. More Positive Together has been part of the 2014-2020 Eur...
Tackling Inequalities Fund - Longridge Community Gym
Longridge Community Gym successfully received funding from the Tackling Inequalities Fund in 2020 to continue supporting over 60’s to improve their physical and mental health. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the gym held regular sessions for people aged...
New Government funded service will help struggling jobseekers aged 25 and over in Pendle “Move Forward”
A new service that aims to support 21 residents in Pendle who have complex employment issues into work has launched this month, with Pendle Borough Council approving its delivery with funding sourced through the Government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund (U...
New Government funded service will help struggling jobseekers aged 25 and over in Preston “Move Forward”
A new service that aims to support 88 residents in Preston who have complex employment issues into work has launched this month, with Preston Council approving its delivery with funding sourced through the Government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)....
Deputy PM: Sport has a vital role to play in 'turning young lives around.'
The Deputy Prime Minister has hailed the vital role that sport and physical activity can play in “turning young lives around” following the launch of a ground breaking new fund. More than 200 grassroots organisations across England and Wales have been...
Virgin money donation enables the London Marathon Charitable trust to award £600,000 to inspire activity among young homeless people
Grant to Active Partnerships made possible after donation from London Marathon title sponsor Young People Forward Project aims to inspire 570 young people across North of England and Scotland The London Marathon Charitable Trust (The Trust) has awarded ...
Free training course leads to 10 jobseekers finding work in Hyndburn
10 job-seekers have found work in Hyndburn following a free two-week Customer Service course delivered as part of the MPT Steps employment partnership. Housing association Onward Homes, an MPT Steps delivery partner, developed the training alongside Lanca...
Getting Active Online: How COVID has led to Innovation and the need for Digital Inclusion
What the recent crisis has brought us is the need to be bold and challenge our traditional ways of doing things. The focus has been on urgently meeting need, getting the job done and adapting to the environment; this kind of innovation would normally take...
Lancashire employment service has supported over 5,000
A Lancashire wide project that aims to improve the skills and employability of people living in some of the county’s most deprived areas has reached a major milestone, having supported 5,000 people since 2017. More Positive Together, which is managed by...
Pioneering project which reconnects offenders with their communities looks set to continue
An innovative Lancashire-based project which aims to support people as they are released from prison and go back into the community, has received a cash injection from the Cumbria and Lancashire Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC). United Together, ori...
New hub to help young Pendle people affected by Covid
Pendle’s new YES Hub offering Youth Employment Support launches today as a one stop shop for 16-24 year olds in Pendle who’ve been affected by Covid. The YES Hub will offer young people access to training, work placements, learning and skills develop...
Lancashire-based organisations join forces to donate bikes to NHS workers
An initiative supported by Active Lancashire, Love to ride, Connecting East Lancashire and Lancashire County Council, has seen the first 12 bikes donated to NHS workers from Blackburn and Burnley Hospital Trusts, with many more to come. The programme, ins...
East Lancashire employment programmes celebrated at awards event
Active Lancashire has won an award for its successful delivery of two East Lancashire employment programmes, Pendle YES Hub (PYH) and Rossendale Works (RW). The organization was successful in winning the Work and Training Social Enterprise of the Year ca...
Tackling Inequalities Fund - Chorley Activity Buddies
Chorley Activity Buddies supported by Chorley Council, was set up as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting vulnerable adults and those with long term health conditions. The idea came about as the first National Lockdown was announced in t...
Major Event Volunteer Fund
Sport England have launched a new ‘Major Event Volunteer Fund’ awarding grants of between £10,000 and £100,000 to encourage volunteering for sports events. The fund has recently opened and will remain open to January 2021 or earlier if all the fundi...
Lancashire-based employability project hits key milestone
A community employment project is celebrating this week after hitting its target for the number of people engaged on the scheme. A staggering, 4,088 residents have now been supported by the More Positive Together (MPT) project, which supports Lancashire r...
Sport England and Active Lancashire to invest £220,000 into local community initiatives
Sport England has appointed Active Lancashire to invest a total of £220,000 in Lancashire as part of the Tackling Inequalities Fund (TIF), to help reduce the negative impact of COVID-19 causing the widening of inequalities in sport and physical activity....
Virtual Instructor Platform
EMD UK, the national governing body for group exercise, and Fisikal have joined forces to offer a no-fee digital platform that will allow group exercise instructors and personal trainers to stream chargeable digital content. This will support fitness prof...
Liam lands job after gaining support from Pendle YES Hub
A young Pendle man who lacked confidence and self-esteem has landed his first job at a local restaurant after getting support from Pendle YES Hub, which is delivered by Active Lancashire and Positive Action in the Community (PAC) on behalf of Pendle Counc...
Lancashire's Health and Community Champions celebrated at Active Lancashire Awards
Individuals, community groups, schools and businesses from across Lancashire were celebrated at this year’s Active Lancashire Awards, which took part at Ewood Park in Blackburn on 17th November. The 21st instalment of the event, run by charity Active La...
Active Lancashire shares new 10-year vision for the county
Active Lancashire, the county’s strategic lead for sport and physical activity has released its new 10-year strategy today, Monday 1st November 2021. Focusing on the organisation’s vision of a future where every person in Lancashire has access to, and...
Schools encouraged to open up sports facilities all year round to boost physical activity
School sports halls and playing fields to open up to sports clubs, backed by £1.6 million New partnerships in 19 areas to host wide range of sports activities to help children stay healthy Nine expert schools awarded grants to encourage sport for the le...
The impact of COVID-19 on the health and wellbeing of our working-age population
Government guidelines which started positive messaging during the onset of the COVID crisis focused heavily on self-care, promoting physical activity and access to the outdoor environment to maintain our physical and mental health. This opportunity, becam...
The Impact of the Primary School Sport Premium
We have put together a short video to showcase the positive impact of the Primary School Sport Premium on Physical Education in Primary Schools. The video showcases the support Active Lancashire and the schools partnership across Lancashire offered Our La...
Innovative collaboration aims to make employees’ lives healthier
An innovative Lancashire based project to make employees’ lives healthier has received national funding. Active Lancashire and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) have joined forces to lead a programme which will upskill gym and leisure centre...
Investing in Active Communities
Sporting Capital is the first social investment fund in England that focuses specifically on organisations and projects that help to develop communities through sport and physical activity. What Sporting Capital fund The £3m Sporting Capital Fund provid...
Overcoming Lancashire’s ageing labour crisis
The Centre for Ageing Better has identified that over 330,000 more workers aged 50-64 are now ‘economically inactive’ than before the first outbreak of COVID-19. Whilst some employment levels for younger employees have recovered and overall unemployme...
General Data Protection Regulation
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into affect on 25 May 2018 and all organisations need to be compliant. The Sport & Recreation Alliance have launched a suite of resources targeted at national organisations, regional organisations an...
11 jobseekers find work in Pendle following free training programme
A free training programme focussing on customer service has led to 11 people finding work in Pendle. Local charity Positive Action In The Community (PAC) worked in collaboration with Morrisons in Nelson to deliver the free 4 week training programme, where...
New job sessions aim to reduce risk of reoffending and benefit claims by former inmates
An employment partnership has carried out a trial project to support inmates into work on their release from a Lancashire prison to help reduce reoffending. Employment service Calico Enterprise has delivered three employment sessions at Wymott Prison in L...
Employment partnership supports 2,000 people in its first year
Since launching in January 2022, an employment partnership that aims to improve the skills and employability of job seekers in Lancashire to reduce the impact of the pandemic has supported 2,000 people across the county. MPT Steps is delivered by 20 partn...
Blackpool to benefit from Get Out Get Active
Blackpool is one of a number of new locations that will be part of Get Out Get Active’s (GOGA) success story over the next three years. Thousands more inactive people across 21 locations will benefit from the latest £5million programme funding. In Sep...
Pendle YES Hub receives visit from Director General of the DWP
Pendle YES Hub (PYH) welcomed senior visitors from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), who visited Nelson to see how the service is helping tackling unemployment amongst local people aged 16 to 24. The DWP Director General for Work and Health Serv...
WorkWell support service launches across Lancashire and South Cumbria
A national support service designed to help disabled people and people with health conditions to start, stay or succeed in work has been rolled out across Lancashire and South Cumbria. WorkWell schemes have launched in local areas throughout the past thre...
Adnan finds a job through Pendle YES Hub and MPT Steps
Adnan Irfan found a job, made new friends and accessed free sports and activities through Pendle YES Hub in Nelson. Adnan, aged 21, first visited the employment service in September 2022 as he was looking for work and wanted to gain new skills to sup...
Unlock the potential of sport, recreation and physical activity to improve the health and wellbeing of the nation’ urge sector leaders
As one of the many Sport England-led Active Partnerships, Active Lancashire is part of a coalition of leading organisations representing sport, recreation and physical activity who have come together for the first time to call for radical reform to suppor...
Annual Report 2021 - 2022
You can view Active Lancashire's latest Annual Impact Report here. Our report provides a summary of how Active Lancashire and the various projects we deliver have performed in the financial year running from 2021 to 2022. It also includes information a...
Developing Relationships with Higher Education Sector
Through the Department for Education (DFE) funding, we have been able to develop a strong relationship with the Higher Education (HE) sector in Lancashire, particularly with the Sports & Wellbeing department at UCLAN. We have worked closely with Chris...
MPT Steps boosts confidence of job seekers through fishing sessions
Onward Homes 1st Call service is providing free fishing sessions to job seekers in Hyndburn to help them boost their confidence and skills relating to gaining employment. The new “Get Fishing For Wellbeing” sessions are being run as part of MPT Steps,...
The Rossendale Works project expands
An innovative Rossendale employability project has been expanded thanks to a grant from the Department of Work and Pensions. The Rossendale Borough Council (RBC) scheme - initially set up for a 12-month trial period in partnership with Active Lancashire -...
Rossendale Works set to continue and support another 120 people into work
A further 120 local residents will be supported into work following the extension of the Rossendale Works employment and skills programme until March 2025. Rossendale Borough Council members unanimously agreed the extension at their June meeting, with cha...
Rossendale Works supports 6 into work with the Citizens Advice Bureau
Six jobseekers from Rossendale have been supported into work within the local Citizens Advice following a collaboration with the employment service Rossendale Works. Those supported initially engaged with free weekly activities run by Rossendale Works, wh...
£9 million boost to tackle health inequalities across the region
Active Lancashire are part of a pioneering collaboration between universities, NHS, local government and third sector partners, which will be at the forefront of a new government initiative to tackle health inequalities across the North West Coast. The po...
Young man on the road to self-employment thanks to Pendle YES Hub
A 23 year old man from Nelson feels his life has been changed through the ongoing support of a local youth employment hub and its bike scheme. Luke Marsh lacked confidence in himself and rarely left his home before accessing the services offered by Pendl...
Lancashire-wide programmes conclude after boosting skills and confidence of 9,500 people
Two large Lancashire-wide employment programmes are celebrating their completion this December, after boosting the skills and confidence of over 9,500 people since 2017 and collectively assisting 1,743 into employment. More Positive Together (MPT) and MPT...
New short film from acclaimed Lancashire filmmakers showcases triumph over adversity
Critically acclaimed Lancashire filmmakers Aaron Dunleavy and Broden Salmon have collaborated with charity Active Lancashire on a new film examining the inspirational story of their colleague Paul Becouarn, who uses his lived experience to support others ...
Coaching support helps young men find work with Pendle Borough Council
Two young men have found work in Nelson with Pendle Borough Council following support from local youth employment service Pendle YES Hub. Harvey van Geffen and Shane Hope were unsure about their careers and how to enter work. As a result, they accessed su...
Brunshaw Primary School Receive Free Recycled Bikes To Support Bikeability Sessions
A community-led bike refurbishment shop has donated cycles and helmets to Brunshaw Primary School in Burnley to help their pupils learn to ride safely. Active Cycles is a community hub in Accrington delivered by the charity Active Lancashire, which works...
Active Lives Children and Young People
The findings of Sport England’s second annual Active Lives Survey were released in December 2019 and demonstrate that children’s activity levels are on the rise. Although we only have two data sets to compare to date, the results are a step in the rig...
Ground-breaking ‘Business Health Matters’ programme set to launch this September
The Active Lancashire led initiative is the first of its kind in the country and aims to improve employee health and wellbeing in Lancashire-based SMEs via two innovative projects. The ‘Workplace Health Screening’ project will upskill gym and leisure ...
Mayor of Pendle visits Pendle YES Hub
The Mayor of Pendle has visited Pendle YES Hub to observe the vital services it provides to young people in Pendle. During his visit, Councillor Brian Newman spoke with staff and participants, as well as its partner organisations, to understand the impact...
Lancashire Sport Welfare Officers to Host Free Breakfast Mornings for Clubs and Community Organisations
Active Lancashire’s Sport Welfare Officers have been instrumental in providing vital support and guidance to local sports clubs, community organisations, and grassroots teams since 2024. As part of Sport England’s strategy, their efforts have helped t...
HAF Alliance Launches #HolidaysMatter Campaign
The HAF Alliance is launching the #HolidaysMatter campaign to highlight the benefits of holiday activities and secure continued support from policymakers and partners. The campaign calls for ongoing holiday provision, policy backing, funding, and partners...
Employability Day 2018
Why not show off your European Social Fund projects? Employability Day on 29 June is the perfect opportunity to shout about your European Social Fund (ESF) projects. This is expected to be the last EmpDay before Britain leaves the European Union next year...
High Sheriff of Lancashire and Mayor of Pendle visit local youth employment project.
The Pendle YES Hub, a Youth Employment and Support service for young people based in Nelson, recently showcased their services to the High Sheriff of Lancashire Helen Bingley OBE JP DL and the Mayor of Pendle Councillor Mohammad Aslam.The visit offered a ...
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Club Support Webinars in Partnership with Sport Structures
On Friday 1st May, Active Lancashire, in partnership with Sport Structures, hosted two free webinars for Lancashire Clubs. These workshops gave clubs that offer provision in sport and physical activity, the chance to discuss immediate concerns that they ...
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Primary School Sports Premium
Since its introduction in 2013, the Primary Schools Sports Premium has provided primary schools with an important funding allowance that head teachers can spend to improve the quality of physical education and sport for younger children. This funding was ...
Opening School Facilities
Opening Schools Facilities (OSF) is a Department for Education (DfE) school funding programme to meet the goals of the Government’s School Sport and Activity Action Plan (SSAAP). The aim is to help schools to open their existing sport facilities, includ...
Active Seconds
The Challenge through Sport Initiative (CSI), one of Active Lancashire’s flagship projects, has opened a new charity retail shop and community hub in Accrington’s Arndale Shopping Centre called ‘Active Seconds’. The shop will build on the proje...
Rossendale Works
Rossendale Works is a free service that has been designed to meet the needs of local people who have been struggling to get into the workplace. If you are looking for work, we can help you in a number of ways. We run a free weekly calendar of sports, acti...
Pendle YES Hub
If you are aged 16 to 24, are looking for work and live in Pendle, get in touch to access free support, training and social activities that aim to boost your skills, wellbeing and confidence. We have helped over 130 young people secure employment since...
Club Support
Here at Active Lancashire, we value the work and achievements of all local clubs and groups that contribute to physical activity and sports opportunities across the county. We know how valuable you are to the local communities you serve, not only for t...
Environmental Social and Governance Action
At Active Lancashire, we're dedicated to promoting physical activity and wellbeing in Lancashire while upholding principles of social responsibility and sustainability. Our commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors is rooted in our...
WorkWell Preston
What is WorkWell? WorkWell is a new pilot that aims to help people with low physical health and health conditions to start and stay in work. This service is free and voluntary, and as part of the offer, participants will have access to a Work and Heal...
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Our success relies on working in partnership with a wide variety of organisations across Lancashire. We believe in the importance and value of sport and how it can influence and help a wide variety of projects. Sport has obvious benefits to society, but a...
Sports
Our focus is with the 46 Sport England recognised sports and the National Governing Bodies. This assists with achieving the overall aim of increasing participation in sport and physical activity and build pathways for talented sports people. Sport England...
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