About Active Calderdale
Active Calderdale is not just a programme - its a movement. Together, we have the opportunity to help everybody in Calderdale become stronger, happier and more connected through physical activity.
A third of adults in Calderdale are not regularly active - which can have a detrimental effect on their physical, mental and emotional health - and we believe that we can change that.
This change happens through working together. Through organisations, groups and services across Calderdale - from the voluntary sector to schools and colleges, health and social care to parks & green spaces, and everything in between. Working as a community so that, wherever you are, you’re receiving the encouragement and opportunity to move more.
We're all Active Calderdale.
Our mission:
Work with communities to make physical activity an embedded part of day to day life in Calderdale.
Our goal:
Reduce physical inactivity levels, addressing the inequalities they create in Calderdale
Active Calderdale’s Theory of Change aims to build a healthier, happier, and a more active Calderdale by increasing physical activity opportunities and fostering collaboration across sectors. This approach focuses on creating sustainable initiatives, particularly for those who stand to benefit the most. By promoting movement in everyday life, especially amongst underrepresented or inactive groups, it delivers wide-ranging benefits, including improved health, wellbeing, economical, and social cohesion.
Our Theory of Change
To tackle inactivity in Calderdale, we aim to surround the issue, to make it an embedded part of day to day life for everyone in the borough, so that wherever you turn, you are receiving encouragement and opportunity to be physically active.
Together, we’re making Calderdale healthier and stronger, one step at a time.
Our core values
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Resilience → Being active helps build strength, both for people and for our community. It’s important for a happier and healthier life.
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Kindness → Not everyone has the same chance to be active. We all need to work together to make it easier for everyone.
Our ways of working
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Focused on impact → Resources focused on people and places with the greatest opportunity for impact.
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Asset-based → We go where people are, and where people value and trust, this can include other people, networks, organisations, services, spaces and places in our communities (e.g. Parks/Green Spaces, facilities).
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Co-designed → We involve those who do the work in shaping, designing and delivering the change.
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Person-centred & community led → We involve local people in shaping, influencing and contributing to creating the conditions that can enable them to be physically active.
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Interdependent → We work cooperatively and collaboratively across organisations and sectors, towards a shared and common purpose.
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Working systemically → We redesign our organisations, services, institutions and environments, so that promoting physical activity and enabling people to move is embedded, creating a culture of being active.
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Leadership → We have visible and sustained leadership for addressing and tackling physical activity inequalities within our system.
