Insights and Reports created by Get Berkshire Active
Current issues in Berkshire January 2021 (PDF, 360 Kb)
Local Area Profiles
GBA have put together a profile on each of the 6 Local Authorities within Berkshire:
Bracknell Forest Insight 2021 (PDF, 345 Kb)
Reading Insight 2021 (PDF, 351 Kb)
Slough Insight 2021 (PDF, 349 Kb)
West Berkshire Insight 2021 (PDF, 340 Kb)
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Insight 2021 (PDF, 345 Kb)
Wokingham Insight 2021 (PDF, 343 Kb)
We all know that regular sport and physical activity plays a key part in a healthy lifestyle, and research supporting this is extensive and well documented. Factors affected include physical and psychological health, productivity at work, and engagement and attainment in education.
Get Berkshire Active have an impressive set of tools and processes to help gather and make sense of data. We utilise the data internally to help with decision making and also we use these tools and processes to help and support our partners.
We have extensive expertise in understanding the needs and issues of the local areas in Berkshire, the level of inactivity and the barriers to accepting active lifestyle of certain audiences.
Key Themes
There are a number of key organisations (listed below) that have produced reports and documents outlining benefits associated with being more active, the current picture regarding our nation's inactivity and valuable information and insight that can be utilised to shape future work in this area.
Economic
Education and Young People
Health - Physical and Psychological wellbeing
- Everybody active, every day: a framework to embed physical activity into daily life (2014)
- Identifying what works for local physical inactivity interventions (2014)
- Steps to solving inactivity (report)
- Getting Active Outdoors (2015)
- Mind- Get Set Go: Physical Activity, Sport and mental health
- Start Active, Stay Active: Infographics on Physical Activity recommendations
- Start active, stay active: report on physical activity in the UK recommendations
Disability and Long Term Health Conditions
Key National Organisations
Key Local Organisations
If you are attempting to source some insight regarding a local population, need or facility one of these organisations might be able to help.
Local Public Health teams - JSNA's provide a valuable source of information; Bracknell, Reading, Slough, Windsor & Maidenhead, West Berkshire, Wokingham.
