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Aims. Support Bucks residents to increase their physical activity levels Increase the number of Bucks residents participating >150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity each week (active)
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Aims • Support Bucks residents to increase their physical activity levels • Increase the number of Bucks residents participating >150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity each week (active) • Reduce the number of Bucks residents undertaking <30 minutes moderate intensity physical activity each week (inactive)
How? • Utilising the role of members and other community leaders • Engaging communities by exploring what physical activity communities want to engage with • Understanding the different assets in each community and their potential to support increased physical activity • Providing evidence-based and best practice physical activity interventions which deliver the Bucks Physical Activity Strategy
How? • Strong partnership working • Build on great work that has already been done • Support local communities designing and advocating physical activity • Creating a sustainable approach
Engaging Communities • In each of the 19 local areas • Exploring what physical activity communities want to engage with • Understanding the motivations, barriers and opportunities to being active • Engaging the whole community, with a particular focus on inactive/low active residents
Community Champions • Enabling ongoing community development throughout the project and beyond • Recruited from local communities • Voice of local residents • Key to sustainability
Community Champions • Bespoke training and ongoing support • Participate at a level each person is comfortable with • Advocates • Rewarded • At least 2 community champions in each local area
Understanding Assets • Assets of Individuals • Assets of Associations • Assets of Organisations • Physical Assets • Economic Assets • Cultural Assets
How? • Evidence based Appreciative Enquiry approach • Local conversations • Locations with naturally high footfall • Existing meetings and networks • Community events • Surveys • Community app – recording conversations in real time
What’s happening locally? • Anyone from any area can get involved at any time • Targeted events in each of the 19 local areas • Phased approach • Flexible based on local events • Start dates for targeted activity in Active Bucks booklet • Visit the Active Bucks website for the latest information
Which areas will be targeted first? From 1st May • Beaconsfield • Buckingham • Chesham & Chiltern Villages From 27th May • Greater Aylesbury • High Wycombe • Waddesdon
Recommendations • Separate recommendations developed for each of the 19 local areas • Based on: • Community engagement • Local population data • Local assets • Ways we know work to get people more active • Including a menu of evidence based/best practice physical activity options to choose from • Sustainability key
Physical Activity Provision • Based on recommendations and menu of options • Activities that are local, accessible, sustainable • Funded at a local level • Funded at a county wide level • New or enhanced activity, no substitution • Community development will continue
Local • Each Local Area Forum (LAF) will receive a funding allocation, based on population • Over 2 years • Recommendations and menu of options presented to each Local Area Forum for local decision • Encourage collaboration between LAFs • Opportunity for LAFs to bid for an additional competitive funding pot
Countywide • Centrally commissioned • Where recommendations show a number of local areas would benefit from the same physical activity intervention • Economies of scale • Consistent offer across the county • Outcomes clearly measurable
Time Credits • To thank people for contributing their time to support the project • Community engagement and understanding assets • Community champions and advocates • Developing physical activity opportunities for spending time credits
Delivering Differently • Department of Communities and Local Government Delivering Differently Fund • Supporting 24 local authorities to explore innovative models for delivery of services at neighbourhood level • 2015/16 • Support from advisory panel • Peer to peer learning opportunities • Cost Benefit Analysis
Active Bucks Delivering Differently • Using Active Bucks as a platform • Explore how we can enhance community engagement and sustainability in areas of greatest health need • Delivered in Aylesbury & Wycombe as part of Active Bucks • Use learning to inform year 2 of the Active Bucks project
Active Bucks Delivering Differently • Social marketing approach • Insight into motivators • Co produce with local residents • Co deliver with local residents • Using community assets and resources identified
Active Bucks Delivering Differently • Creating a challenge to engage communities in physical activity • Using insight • Co design with local residents • Using time credits differently to support community engagement • Enhanced skills development and accreditation of community champions and advocates
Independent Evaluation • Evaluating community development and physical activity provision • Physical activity participation levels as well as wider determinants • Learning from year 1 will inform year 2 development
Who do we want to engage? • Everyone • Those more likely to be more inactive • Older/vulnerable adults • Women and girls • Disabled people/groups • Black and minority ethnic groups • Young people
How can you help? • Engage local organisations, groups or influential individuals to have their say • Promote the project to your local networks and residents • Tell us about any local events/meetings/groups the Active Bucks team could attend • Come to an engagement event • Organise an engagement event
How can you help? • What are the local assets? • Let us know if any work to identify assets has already been done that can be built on • Tell us what’s already happening to get people more active • Identify individuals that might want to be community champions in their local area
To support you to promote Active Bucks • Guide to getting more people, more active, more often • Flyer • Website • Online toolkit at www.buckscc.gov.uk/activebucks to download resources
www.buckscc.gov.uk/activebucks activebucks@buckscc.gov.uk 01908 622897 @activebucks #activebucks