Together an Active Future are excited to share with you the Staying Curious Report (process learning evaluation) sent to Sport England as a Pennine Lancashire Place Partner. The report takes a dive into some great stories of change in our workstreams and highlights the enablers for change we have come to see embedded in our work. This is designed to be a document that is useful to current partners and new partners with interest in tackling physical activity inequalities in their place.
Watch the 1 minute overview below:
You can find the full report here: Staying Curious: TaAF Report April – September 2023
Stories of significant change
This year our workstreams have been experienced high activity levels and we are so proud of the opportunities they have created to increase physical activity across their localities. Here are a few examples of this work referenced in our report, showing a change, a success or impact in a place, system or behaviours.
Barrowford Surgery – a small practice making big impact.
Through our Creating an Active Practice workstream in Pendle, we have seen how small changes can make a big difference when investing in local assets and co designing physical activity behaviour changes across and the positive impacts to health and wellbeing for staff at this practice. Learn more here
Over 200 Leaders in Lancashire are focusing on Strengths.
Our Leadership workstream’s strengths-based coaching programme has seen increased engagement from leaders across organisations. Since its first course has created a ripple effect into our Schools Middle Leader Programme, Madrassah workstream and locality networks. Learn more here
Doing things differently: Our approach to research and evaluation
All this great work across localities and workstreams has been evidenced through research and brought to life using our Learning Cycle and Evaluation Approach.
Embedding an evaluation for learning approach requires workstreams to consciously explore a cultural shift based on a collaborative, systematic, long-term mindset that will enable a more fundamental change.
2024 – our next steps…
In 2024 we’ll see partners being invited to participation workshop as part of our research process, the research is co-produced and developmental for all colleagues working in the place and we will be sharing and engaging with all this knowledge and learning through our curiosity cafes. We have seen fantastic outcomes for place-based change so far this year and we are looking forward to what the New Year brings within our work to increase the opportunities for people to be more active across Pennine Lancashire.