Our Impact
Our Impact
In the sections below you can learn more about the impact of our work including the organisations and projects we have supported across the West of England.
Abda's Nordic Walking story
Abda has shared her story of how Nordic Walking has positively impacted her life. Abda has accessed Nordic walking through Let's Walk Bristol, who have been funded by us through the Together Fund and the Green Social Prescribing project.
Contain Outbreak Management Fund, Bristol (COMF)
COMF Bristol, is a physical activity social prescribing project, supporting individuals in their journey to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. The Physical Activity Link Workers provide signposting, guidance, and support into a wide range of movement and physical activities. The project seeks to engage those who have been most impacted by Covid and to improve health inequalities experienced by residents.
Crime Prevention Through Sport
The Crime Prevention Through Sport fund aims to support projects that use sport and physical activity to reduce violence, crime and anti-social behaviour. This fund is for projects that focus on using activity as a tool to engage and support young people up to the age of 25.
- Crime Prevention Through Sport Fund Report 2023-24
- Crime Prevention Through Sport Fund Report 2022-23
- Crime Prevention Through Sport Fund Report 2021-22
The Opening School Facilities Fund - Phase 2
The fund aims to allow schools to open their school facilities outside of the normal school day to both school and community users, to create sustainable change in physical activity levels. The case studies below are from some of the schools funded during phase 2.
Watch the video here
Bristol Children & Young People Positive Activities Grant
The aim of the fund was to address health inequalities in children and young people by supporting positive activities that can contribute to improved healthy weight and mental health outcomes. The focus for projects based in Inner City and East Bristol was on improving mental health outcomes through positive activities. The focus for projects based in South Bristol was on supporting healthy weight through positive activities.
Our City Community Cup
As part of the Bristol Refugee Festival, this annual football tournament brings together teams of refugees and asylum seekers alongside teams from the community, from around the West of England. The aim of the tournament is to celebrate the contribution that refugees and asylum seekers make to the city, create a better understanding of why people seek sanctuary, help overcome misconceptions and promote successful community cohesion. See below artilces and videos from previous years which showcase the day:
- Our City Community Cup 2024: News Article / Video
- Our City Community Cup 2023: News Article / Video
The Tackling Inequalities Fund
The Tackling Inequalities Fund (TIF) was a Covid-19 recovery fund to support people to access activity during the pandemic. This was a Sport England funded programme of work which sought to reduce the inequalities we were seeing in priority audiences who were already less active and had fewer opportunities to access physical activity before the pandemic.
Community partners used activity as a way of maintaining engagement with their audiences which has in turn seen a high number of funded partners change the delivery of their work to incorporate physical activity and movement to address the needs of their audiences. Please see some snapshots of projects that were delivered through this funded project:
- The Tackling Inequalities Fund Report 2020-22
- Genesis Trust Bath: TIF journey
- Off The Record: Elle's story
- The Impact of Walking in the West of England
- West of England Rural Network TIF Report
Together Fund
Following on from the third phase of TIF, Sport England's Together Fund followed with the same aim to increase physical activity opportunities and reduce inequalities in priority audiences. Community partners were integral to acheiving the aims of this programme by using movement and physical activity as a tool to engage their audiences. Please see below, some examples of the work that was carried out:
Workplace Training
Wesport worked with several organisation in the West of England to address the challenges linked to the factors of a busy working environment and an ageing and increasingly sedentary workforce.
The Workforce Innovation Fund
This project is aiming to create a new sport and physical activity workforce, ensuring there are ‘more people like me’ delivering locally in Bristol, creating a workforce that really does reflect society. The course is aimed at asylum seekers, refugees and the peers they live alongside.
Coach Core
Coach Core is an employment and education charity that uses a community sports apprenticeship to support young adults become qualified sports coaches and to gain employment.
