Welcome to the Research and Evidence Portal. Here you will find a catalogue of relevant national and local physical activity and sport literature made up of reports and case studies that allows users to search by key themes, location, date and age. You can also find a number of practical toolkits and guidance documents to support the marketing and promotion of your programmes and campaigns.
Designing for Accessibility
Jan 2021
This guide shows how you can make your service accessible for various access needs including: autism, visually impaired, dyslexia, physical disabilities, deaf or hard of hearing and anxiety. Understanding accessibility means we can build services that work for everyone, whatever their access need.
Digital Futures – A review of the digital maturity and digital effectiveness of the UK’s fitness and leisure sector
Dec 2021
UKactive
This report will support operators in the enhancement or design of their own digital transformation journey as well as identify the challenges and opportunities for digital adoption.
Disrupting knife crime through sport
Apr 2022
This report portrays insights that hold a key for successful intervention of sports programmes to tackle violent knife crime.
Easier to be Active- Research Summary and Recommendations
Mar 2022
National Centre for Sport & Exercise Medicine & The Centre for Sport & Exercise Science, Sheffield Hallam University, Sport England
This report is for physical activity professionals, health professionals, those with long-term health conditions and their carers, to help them understand what inclusive physical activity looks like and how we can strengthen the system to support people with long-term health conditions more effectively.
Ethnic Health inequalities in later life
Nov 2021
There are stark inequalities between the health status of different ethnic groups in the UK, with people from some ethnic minority backgrounds experiencing worse health than their White peers.
Ethnographic Stories- CoronaVirus Stories
Sep 2022
Ipsos, commissioned by Sport England, conducted five ethnographies with participants across England. Ethnographers spent a day with each participant and their household capturing everything on film to immerse us into their worlds and the context of their lives.
Fit for the Future: The Health Value of Wellbeing and Leisure Services
May 2022
District Council's Network
The report makes a compelling case for the critical role that the wellbeing and leisure services provided by DCN member councils can play in tackling health inequalities.
Generation Isolation: OnSide's annual study into young people's lives outside school
Oct 2023
OnSide
This study explores the effects of Covid-19 on younger people and their physical activity levels outside of school. Findings highlighted that younger people are collectively spending most of their free time at home with a significant screen time.
Get Active: A strategy for the future of sport and physical activity
Aug 2023
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
This strategy sets out how the government will work with the sector to achieve these aims by ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to be active.
Get Yourself Active- Social Care Activity Pack
Nov 2022
Sport England, Disability Rights UK
An interactive pack aimed at people working in social care to help you to support more disabled people to be active.
