Active Families
Active Families
Sarah, our Active Families Co-ordinator is on hand to support adults, children or the whole family to re-engage or start physical activity following. We have supported hundreds of families in Herefordshire since October 2021, helping them to feel happier, more confident and motivated to be active.
We work through schools to reach families. Our experienced Co-ordinator provides 1:1 support to a small number of families at any one time, to help them be more active either at home or in the community. As well as the 1:1 support, we also offer other families a stepping stone into activity though signposting, guidance and group support.
Thanks to Herefordshire Council we are able to continue delivering the Active Families programme to schools free of charge, until August 2026.
We are able to work with a limited number of target schools each term. If your school would be interested in finding out more, please get in touch with us.
Programme Impact
618
participants have benefitted from taking part in Active Families.
55%
of participants are from the 2 most deprived quintiles.
80%
of participants fully achieved the goals they set.
68%
of young people increased their physical activity between baseline and sign-off.
84%
of adults increased their time spent participating in moderate and vigorous physical activity between baseline and sign-off.
61%
of young people were perceived to have improved wellbeing compared with the start of their involvement with Active Families.
I’m physically disabled… With the kids, I couldn’t actually do stuff with them. It got me a bit more motivated to try and join in, so they would come up with something and if I couldn’t do it they would go ‘it’s OK you can do it this way’ and stuff like that. And it sort of brought us together a bit more. It was good.
Parent
It just worked on so many levels. You didn’t have to think too hard about it, it all came in the bag, it was just grab something out, quick idea, and it worked because it was simple enough for them to use their imagination to see past it.
Parent
