Find out the latest information on our Physical Activity Programmes, including Walking Football and the Tackling Inequalities Fund.
The latest fundraising bulletin is now available for you to view below.
Welcome to the May funding bulletin! This month’s bulletin contains information on Age UKs Warm Homes Project, including the opportunity to give feedback via a survey. There are also details of the Sport England Small Grant Fund.
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The latest fundraising bulletin is now available for you to view below.
Welcome to the April funding bulletin! This month’s bulletin contains a survey to gauge interest in a potential Walking Tennis Programme. There are also details of a potential capital funding opportunity from The Bradbury Foundation.
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Welcome to the March Funding Bulletin. This month’s bulletin contains details of funding for capital projects and tackling loneliness, along with information on The Travelling Companions project.
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Download the new ‘Being Active with Parkinson’s Guide’ from Parkinson’s UK. A guide to support people living with Parkinson’s to be physically active.
Parkinson’s UK have developed a new ‘Being Active with Parkinson’s Guide’, to support people living with Parkinson’s to be active, feel energised and to live well. Find out all about the guide below, including how to download it.
The average age for the onset of Parkinson’s is 60 years of age, although a small proportion of people are diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s before the age of 50. Therefore, it is likely that many services offered by local Age UKs will have beneficiaries that live with Parkinson’s, and this guide will enable staff and volunteers to have a greater understanding of the condition and how to support people living with Parkinson’s to be physically active.
The guide covers a range of topics including: why it is important to be active when living with Parkinson’s, how to get started, why intensity can be important for the disease. The guide also includes some inspiring stories sharing the real-life experiences of those within the Parkinson’s community.
Jagdeep’s story, from the We Are Undefeatable campaign, encourages others to build up their levels of activity, and shares how he “found that exercise, and in particular boxing, would benefit people with Parkinson’s.” Find out more here.
You can order physical copies, or download a digital version here. The guide can be shared directly with people living with Parkinson’s that may be interested in finding out more about being physically active in a way that works for their condition, not against it.
Please share this with any colleagues that support older people, and those living with long term health conditions, to be active.
Find out all about the new Dementia friendly sports clubs and venues guide from Alzheimer’s Society.
The Alzheimer’s Society has produced a free practical guide, supporting sports clubs and venues to become becoming more accessible and inclusive for people living with dementia. You may wish to download the guide for your use, or to share with sports clubs and venues in your local area. Find out full details below.
The guide aims to support individuals working to make their club or venue dementia friendly by:
You can find out full details, including how to access the free guide below:
We Are Undefeatable have created a Partner Pack to help local Age UKs to get involved with the We Are Undefeatable campaign. Find out all about the Partner Pack below.
The We Are Undefeatable campaign has created a partner pack to help local Age UKs to continue to support older people living with long term health conditions to be physically active. Find out how you can get involved with the campaign below.
We Are Undefeatable have created a Partner Pack to help local Age UKs to get involved with the We Are Undefeatable campaign and link to the wide range of services you offer to local people in your area in relation to physical activity.
It would be fantastic if you could support the campaign during the promotional bursts throughout the year; the first running from early March to early April 2023, and then a summer campaign is in the pipeline. That way your organisation will benefit from the high visibility of the campaign and the opportunity to promote your brand and link into your local activities and offering.
The campaign has many inspiring stories, resources, assets and tools that can support older people to be physically active. This partner pack features: how you can support the campaign locally, brand guidelines, printed materials, social media templates and case studies to enable you to get involved with the campaign and to link it to your own local physical activity offers.
Download the partner pack and share with any colleagues that are involved in physical activity services, and any social media and communications leads within your organisation.
You can also keep up to date with the latest campaign developments and have access to all of the resources within the partner pack by signing up to the Campaign Supporters Hub.
The latest fundraising bulletin is now available for you to view below.
Welcome to the February funding bulletin! This month’s bulletin contains details of upcoming services, programmes and campaigns, including Free Wills Month and an update on Age UK’s Older Prisoners Programme.
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Find out how you can get involved in We Are Undefeatable’s first campaign burst of the year by attending their February webinar.
Join the We Are Undefeatable Campaign team for their February webinar on Thursday 23 February at 10:00am, to hear about their plans for the campaign in 2023. Click here to register, or read on for full details.
The team will be explaining how you can get behind the first campaign burst of the year, provide an update on their latest research and insights, and you will hear from a guest speaker from one of the campaign’s charity partners on how they are bringing the campaign to life. Sign up below:
Please note: this event is for campaign supporters and stakeholders. Feel free to share this event with your colleagues and organisations you work with, however it should not be shared on external social media platforms.
You can also sign up to the We Are Undefeatable supporters hub to receive campaign news and updates via email.
Take a look at the Club Matters website, which is full of free resources for those involved in the delivery of sport and physical activity in England.
For local Age UKs in England who deliver physical activities for older people, Sport England’s Club Matters website offers a range of training opportunities and resources which are free and available to those involved in the delivery of sport and physical activity in England. Details of some of the current training sessions available can be found on their website here.
Find out all about the Physical Activity Hub, a space where Age UK stores news and resources for Partners that we think could be useful.
With so many resources available to promote physical activity amongst the people we support, this is a quick reminder that we have created a Physical Activity Hub to display the latest news and resources. Find out full details below.
Age UK is a partner organisation to several groups and campaigns promoting physical activity, including the We Are Undefeatable Campaign and the Richmond Group, as well as the Live Life Longer Campaign and also has links with Active Partnerships, Sport England and the Football Association, amongst others. As a result, we receive many articles and updates which are relevant to the whole network, and these are highlighted in Signpost and other partner communications on a regular basis.
For those people who are interested in, or work in providing opportunities for older people to take part in physical activities, we have set up the Physical Activity Hub, where articles and resources are stored for future use and reference, after they have been circulated.
Please do access the Hub via the link above, or sign up for Signpost here to see the latest updates in your inbox. Please also pass on the link to colleagues who may also be interested. Thank you!