Here you’ll find TaAF learning resources and tool-kits that we have developed over time as we’ve worked out who we want to be and how we want to do things. They’ve made a real difference for us and they can for you too. Our resources include our free image library, fundamental models, leadership and madrassah toolkits, podcasts, Sport England reports and more!
Toolkits & Resources
Active Images
Download images of people from all walks of life, different background and ethnicities being active in a way that works for them. The images are free to use, whether it’s for your social media, website, newsletters or even print material.
Clifton Strengths
Clifton Strength Videos
Watch a short explainer video about each of the 34 CliftonStrengths.
Strengths Posters
These 4 Strengths posters summarise the categories of the Clifton Strengths.
Strengths Toolkit
A range of resources and tools to help support embedding change into your workplace.
Team Strengths Matrix
Map your team’s strengths to explore your collective strengths.
Embedding Strengths
Download these resources for ideas on how you can start embedding strengths. It includes ideas on how to get more familiar with your own strengths and know more about your team’s strengths.
Best of Us
Download the Gallup ‘Best Of Us’ grid and some prompts to help you when completing it.
Love, Frustrate, Appreciate
Explore and discuss your CliftonStrengths themes by identifying ones that you love, ones that frustrate you or others, and ones that you’d like to see more of in yourself.
Talents in Action
Perfect for when you are coaching others. Explore unique talents by reflecting on Signature Themes, identify key strengths, and share real-life examples of how these talents are applied in action.
The Strengths Wheel
The Strengths Wheel activity encourages you to explore how your top themes interact and combine. This exercise aims to deepen your understanding of how your unique strengths can work together to create results and overcome obstacles.
Strengths Bingo
This activity helps participants connect with others and gain a deeper understanding of different strengths, especially those that may be less familiar or interpreted differently. By sharing and discussing each other’s strengths it can help to broaden perspectives and appreciation for diverse talents.
Strengths Questions
These Celebratory and Growth Questions encourage reflection on your strengths, helping you appreciate your successes while identifying areas for improvement. The Celebratory Questions focus on how your strengths impact your work and relationships, while the Growth Questions explore challenges and opportunities for development. Together, they promote self-awareness and continuous growth.
Sport England submission documents
Our first big submission to Sport England that secured our status as a Local Delivery Pilot and outlines who we are, what we care about and what we want to do.
Our second submission to Sport England that secured their ongoing commitment to Pennine Lancashire and TaAF. It outlines our fundamentals, learning so far and future plans.
Our third submission to Sport England marks a new phase: Deepening.
It builds on the foundations of Pathfinder and Accelerator, focusing on what works and where we can go further. Read more about our plans to deepen our impact in the education system, primary care and active environments.
Leadership Resources & Toolkits
After our latest ColLaboratory event we thought we would share some of the leadership based engagement tools we used within our Discovery Zone. The perfect way to inspire conversations and a different way of thinking when you are looking at developing leadership skills.
Madrassah Resources & Toolkits
This tool kit is packed full of ideas local Madrassah’s have been using to help introduce new ways of moving into their learning.
Health and Wellbeing Statistics
We’ve been a part of collating some data to illustrate some key Health and Wellbeing statistics around Pennine Lancashire. Download our Health and wellbeing infographics for each district (2024-25), data for children and young people (2023), as well as Assets and Opportunities in the areas below (2024).
Ripple Effect Mapping
This resource offers the depth and detail of a Ripple Effect Map Webinar we facilitated in March 2024. This document is a small taster of Ripple Effect Mapping for Development for anyone getting started!
Creative Engagement
A load of hints, tips, activities and tools that can help take you to the next level when planning and delivering interactions, meetings and events that inspire people.
Systems Maturity Index Questions
We have created a series of questions that help guide teams to complete the NELP Systems Maturity Matrix Survey. It’s a lot to get your head around, so using these guiding questions can help start the process.
You can learn more about the System Maturity Conditions for Place-based Systemic Approaches to Physical Activity Inequalities here.
Fundamentals of our approach
Model for Change
The TaAF Model for Change is at the heart of how we create transformational and sustainable change. Central to our model is the idea that people who are changing themselves (attitude, behaviours, priorities) are the key to our systems and places changing for the better.
Differentiated Approach
The Differentiated Approach is our way of structuring, managing and delivering our work.
Shared Role Model
Some helpful considerations for using a share role staffing model. Read more about our learning and experiences when we became a Sport England Local Delivery Pilot, as well as insightful and indepth research on the model.
The Look, The Sound, The Feel
A helpful guide on how you can create an environment that inspires involvement and enables great contribution. “A little change from you can make a big difference to others”
Design Principles
Some helpful principles and considerations to guide thinking and approaches when you are creating the space for change to happen in a place.
Creative Engagement
A load of hints, tips, activities and tools that can help take you to the next level when planning and delivering interactions, meetings and events that inspire people.
Developmental Evaluation & Learning
Our developmental evaluation approach is practical, co-produced, and anchored in continuous learning. We work in six-month cycles that make evaluation part of day-to-day delivery
