News: Tom Beasley

15Dec

Investing in change

‘We can move’ has been named as a successful catalyst for change. We believe communities investing in systems change can harness physical activity to drive better health and tackle inequality.

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29Oct

Changing our approach to engage young people on our trustee board

Recruiting board members can be challenging, nationally three quarters of charities say they find it difficult to recruit trustees, perhaps it is why new trustees are often recruited from the people the board already know.

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22Oct

Physical activity and healthy weight

We know that some of the reasons that people find it hard to maintain a healthy weight are also the challenges that they face in being physically active.

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30Sep

Black Lives Matter – starting a journey of reflection and change within Active Gloucestershire

At the start of 2020, our team could not have imagined that the Black Lives Matter movement, which in recent months has swept across both America and the UK, would become a catalyst for change in our organisation.

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11Aug

Statement on inequalities experienced by BAME communities

Evidence has shown that because deeply entrenched inequalities exist in Gloucestershire, people from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities are less likely to do as much physical activity as the government recommends. As such, our scope of work has grown to include working with people from minority ethnic communities.

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27Mar

Lydney-Sharpness: We need to be more curious, or risk being left behind

Debate about resurrecting the Lydney-Sharpness bridge is shining a light on the way we think about travel, pollution and health. For nearly 100 years, the Lydney-Sharpness bridge carried coal and people across the Severn between the two towns and beyond. Children in one town went to school in the other. People lived and worked on opposite sides of the river.

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