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Active Communities Hub

This online hub highlights good practice in the delivery of sport, physical activity and leisure services by councils and their partners to reduce inequalities and improve physical activity levels in the least active communities.


The LGA Culture, Tourism and Sport (CTS) Board is committed to tackling inequalities, promoting equality and supporting councils to help communities to be active. 

Between 2024 to 2026, it is taking an in-depth look at supporting councils and their partners to improve participation and physical activity levels in the following groups identified as having some of the lowest activity levels and biggest inequalities: 

As we complete each deep dive, we will share our findings, effective practice and resources on this hub to support the sector.


Moving Communities | Sport England

Moving Communities is a data portal which measure public leisure’s  contributions to active communities. This includes benchmarking, satisfaction surveys, and using financial performance to understand how effective services are.

Local Government Physical Activity Partnership (LGPAP) has taken examples of local authorities using a whole systems approach to tackle inactivity to develop a bank of best practice case studies.