Active Together Stakeholder Event

Local Places, Local Solutions, Creating the Conditions

Thursday, 7th November 2024
8.30 am for 9.30 am start - 3.30 pm finish
NSPCC Training Centre, 3 Gilmour Close, Leicester, LE4 1EZ

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland is a very diverse but vibrant place to live and work. Within Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland there are many individual places and communities with their own unique characteristics and challenges. As a partnership, we seek to recognise and respond to the needs or our places and we work with local places to find local solutions to support communities to be physically active.

Focusing resources and our energy on the dual challenge for reducing inequality and inactivity requires good leadership and changes in behaviour beyond badges, borders, egos and logos. Getting people to move more is not just the responsibility of the physical activity sector. As a partnership we seek to influence system partners to consider their role and how they facilitate physical activity. We also seek to extend our reach and connections to new partners, services and organisations, that can play a role in increasing opportunities for people to move more.

National physical activity partners are being explicit and about that working in place is instrumental for creating the conditions for change at a local level to tackle inactivity levels. As a partnership, we have been on a journey with the above way of working for many years. However, we need to do more to tackle the persistent inequalities in physical activity that exist across our patch.

The stakeholder event will support us as a partnership to:

Further understand the national perspective on working in place
Develop a shared narrative and understanding of working in place across Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
Challenge ourselves to enhancing our current place working

We invite partners to join us for a day of conversation and debate, exploring how we enhance the conditions in our places to create positive outcomes for our population.

Cost: Free

(Please note that the cancellation of a place made less than 48 hours before the event will incur a £50 charge).

Agenda

Time
8.30 - 9.30 am	Registration & Networking
INTRODUCTION TO WORKING IN PLACE
9.30 - 9.45 am	AT Board Chair & Welcome
9.45 - 10.15 am	Setting the Scene
10.15 - 10.30 am	Working in Place: A National Perspective
10.30 - 10.45 am	BREAK
10.45 - 11.15 am	Learning from Others: Calderdale
11.15 - 12.15 pm	Big Conversation 1: LLR definition of working in place
12.15 - 12.45 pm	LUNCH
Big Conversation 2: Open discussions	What we already do, what we need to do better at?
12.45 - 1.15 pm	Round 1
1.20 - 1.50 pm	Round 2
1.50 - 2.00 pm	BREAK
Reflection & Next Steps
2.00 - 2.15 pm	Reflection
2.15 - 3.00 pm	Big Conversation 3: Next Steps
3.00 - 3.10 pm	Reflection
3.10 - 3.15 pm	Close

Keynotes & Open Space Workshops

Open Space Workshops: Dedicated times to reflect on keynote discussion and big conversation and have smaller group based discussions on dedicated topics. Delegates will have the opportunity to attend two different workshops:

Integrating physical activity into sectors: Discuss how we can and should embed physical activity into agendas beyond the sport and leisure sector.
Strengthening community and individual capacities: Discuss how we can and should support our communities and use their assets to encourage our residents to move more.
Tackling structural inequalities: Discuss what are the system challenges that are preventing our residents from becoming active. How can we advocate for change?

Biographies

Andy Reed OBE

Active Together Chair

Andy has a sound grounding in government relations having served as the Member of Parliament for Loughborough from 1997 to 2010. During his tenure, he was known for his dedication to community and sports development. After leaving Parliament, Andy continued his involvement in sports and became the Chair of the Sport and Recreation Alliance and founded the Sports Think Tank, an independent policy institute focused on sports policy. Andy remains very active in the sports sector, advising organisations and speaking at events. He currently chairs the national Sport for Development Coalition, and more importantly, is the chair of Active Together and has a passion to increase the profile and development of physical activity across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.

Graeme Sinnott

Director of Relationships – Active Partnerships Network

Graeme works to change the structures, policies and behaviours that are preventing active lifestyles from being the norm for everyone. He does this by building meaningful relationships to drive collective action in tackling inequalities.

https://activepartnerships.org/

Richard Croker

Programme Manager – Active Calderdale

Richard has 15 year's experience in physical activity and sport, working in local government and Active Partnerships. For the last six years, Richard has been leading the Local Delivery Pilot in Calderdale. Active Calderdale's mission is to work with communities to make physical activity a part of everyday life.

Active Calderdale