Creating an Active Birmingham strategy 2024 to 2034
Creating an Active Birmingham - Physical activity strategy 2023-24
Creating an Active Birmingham - Physical activity strategy 2023-24 (Easy read version)
Background
The Active City Forum is a sub-committee of the Health and Wellbeing Board. The forum, in collaboration with other stakeholders, has co-produced the Creating an Active Birmingham Strategy 2024 to 2034 (CABS) with the aim of increasing physical activity levels in Birmingham.
Informed by local, national and international research and evidence, the strategy has been developed by the Physical Activity team in the Public Health Division, in collaboration with the public and local stakeholder group whose vision are aligned with physical activity directly or indirectly.
An 8-week public consultation was also conducted to obtain views on the strategy. This received 321 written responses and engaged 879 citizens through more than 40 face-to-face events.
The strategy aims to address low levels of physical activity and focuses on developing opportunities for people to build physical activity into everyday life, through active living, active recreation, and active travel. The strategy complements other programmes of work in place across the city, such as the Sports Strategy and Travel Plan. Collectively these come together to ensure a whole system approach will be taken to increasing physical activity.
Birmingham will achieve this by focussing on 5 areas:
Active People
By creating and promoting access to equitable physical activity opportunities taking a life course approach across multiple settings, we will enable more people to engage in regular activity.
Active Society
By creating and protecting the places and spaces that promote and engage people of all ages and abilities in activity we will enable more people to engage in regular activity.
Active Environment
By changing how we talk about physical activity across the city, building insight and evidence into policy, commissioning, planning decisions and communication messages and marketing campaigns we will enable more people to engage in regular activity.
Active System
By creating a more connected system and strengthening our local leadership, governance, partnerships, and workforce capabilities we will enable more people to engage in regular activity.
Closing the Gap
By continuing to develop a better understanding of local barriers and enablers to increase activity across the city and ensure we focus on the least active groups as identified in the Physical Activity Needs Assessment, we will enable more people to engage in regular activity.
Page last updated: 27 November 2024
