Together Active (formerly known as SASSOT) is the strategic lead for sport and physical activity across the county of Staffordshire. Through working together with local agencies we aim to create active places and healthy lives through physical activity and sport. Through our experience and expertise we have developed a range of services to support local organisations to get everyone more active more often.
What we aim to achieve
People
Place
Residents from all socio-economic backgrounds enjoy the physical and mental health benefits of an active lifestyle
Our communities are places where being active is the easy choice
Economy
System
Our sporting economy is thriving, providing employment to an active workplace
Strong strategic leadership ensures that physical activity and sport become a core feature in local policy creating active communities
Developing the workforce
Physical activity advocacy training for health professionals
Introductory training to the principals of behaviour change
Sports Leaders UK training courses
CPD and training for schools to support the improvement of their school sport and PE offer
Bespoke advice from a PE and school sport specialist for individual schools to produce a whole school action plan
Training on the use and application of key insight resources
Guidance and training on how to monitor and evaluate services and interventions
Basic safeguarding awareness and policy development training
Training Needs Analysis for organisations
Club Matters workshops
Recruiting, training and deploying volunteers to support School Games
Over 50s football practice
Together Active Services
Developing insight and shaping policy
Using insight to inform service delivery and policy development
Community consultation and data analysis
Sharing research and insight resources from local and national sources
Designing tender specifications to procure external expertise
Providing objective consultative advice and guidance to review and evaluation strategic plans and policies
Helping Sport England recruit schools to take part in the Children and Young People Active Lives Survey
Facilitation and management of networking opportunities to support knowledge transfer and strategic collaboration
Providing strategic leadership for the sport and physical activity agenda through lobbying and influencing key networks and organisation. (This includes promoting the interest of our sector to the STP, Health and Wellbeing Board, Families Partnership Executive Groups and VCSE forums).
Developing marketing and communications
Helping partners develop and deliver new social marketing campaigns
Guiding on development of marketing plans and strategies
Profiling organisational impact
Advice and guidance on landing national sport, physical activity and health campaigns locally
Developing activity provision
Advice and guidance on funding opportunities
Bespoke support for providers to develop funding applications
Coordinating larger multi-agency applications
Brokering relationships to improve the strategic fit of applications
Managing delivery of nationally funded programmes
Delivering the School Games County Festival and coordinating the calendar of events
Raising awareness of funding opportunities
Read our 2019-20 Annual Report
Annual Report 2018-19
Annual Report 2017-18
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