Issue - meetings

The Sport and Physical Activity Manager will give a presentation on the FAST Programme (Families Active Sporting Together), explaining the big Impact it has had on families across Cherwell over last four years and how it has enabled family provision to be upscaled across the county through Public Health funding.

Recommendation

The meeting is recommended:

1.1   To note the presentation.

Resolved

(1)      That the presentation be noted.

The Sport and Physical Activity Manager gave a presentation on the FAST (Families Active Sporting Together) Programme and explained the positive impact it had on families across Cherwell over last four years and had enabled family provision to be upscaled across the county through Public Health funding.

The Sport and Physical Activity Manager advised the Committee that the FAST programme began in 2018 and ran until March 2023. The aim of the programme was to make it easier for families to be physically active together, promoting positive experiences of physical activities by providing free or discounted activities.

The Sport and Physical Activity Manager explained that the FAST programme had finished however because of its success.  Public Health England had funded the new initiative ‘You Move’ across Oxfordshire.  “You Move” was aimed at families who access free school meals but the whole family could access the activities provided under the scheme.

Following questions from the Committee, the Sport and Physical Activity Manager advised that 16% of people who had signed up to the FAST programme were from diverse ethnic backgrounds, and additional work had been undertaken in the local community by the Leisure team to promote the programme.

Resolved

(1)      That the presentation be noted.