Fit For Sport is a UK organization that engages children in physical activity. They work with over 250 schools annually, reaching 250,000 children. Their programs include activity camps, training learners and professionals, and developing programs to support inactive children. One successful program, Engage to Compete, engaged 26,000 children, increased fitness by 12%, and trained over 1,200 people through school and community partnerships. Fit For Sport advocates for partnerships between schools, leisure centers, families, and organizations to provide sustainable programs that increase engagement in physical activity and competition.

1. Engage The Disengaged
DeanHorridge
CEO-Founder, Fit For Sport

2. About Fit For Sport
The UK’s leaders in engaging and educating children, young people and families through activity for over
25 years.
Employ 700 children’s activity professionals across the UK
Exposure to 250,000 children engaged in physical activity each year
Working directly with over 250 schools
Delivering over 100 activity camps throughout the UK
Developed the Healthy Active Schools System – www.healthyactiveschools.co.uk
Our Active Academy trains over 1,000 learners each year
Designed the Fitter Kids programme to support inactive children

3. • Developed and delivered the Channel 4 Ian Wright Fitter Kids documentary
• 1 million children and 3,500 schools engaged in our Fitter Schools Challenge
• Developed the Fitter Families programme and published book
• Fit For Sport Legacy Games awarded coveted “Inspired by 2012” from the Cabinet Office
• Successful Sport England pilot delivered across 4 regions - Engage to Compete
• ukactive Flame Award Finalists 2016
Achievements

4. Challenging inactivity
The National Child
Measurement
programme reported in
2014/15 that more than 1 in 5
children in Reception
1 in 3 children in Year 6 were
measured as obese or
overweight.
www.activitychallenge.co.uk

5. Sport England:
Towards an Active Nation
• Tackling Inactivity – not just sport
• Now from children aged 5
• Taking activity to the mass market
• Supporting local activity
• Investing in facilities

6. Sport is not for all!

7. Engage to Compete 2015
• Initial Engagement – assemblies, Activity Challenge, Playtime activity
audit, tracking and community engagement
• Focus on Training of school leadership
team & wide range of support staff
• Utilising ACTIVITY & embedding
competition in whole school approach

8. Engage to Compete
• 100% of children engaged in physical activity
• 67% children participating in L1 competition
• 51% of all children participating in L2 competition
*External verification ofthe
report and the analysis of
its results was undertaken
by the University of
Coventry

9. • 26,000+ children engaged
• 12%increase in fitness
• 26leisure partners
• 1200+ people trained
Sustainable change
through partnerships

10. We need to work in partnership

11. Partnership
Leisure & Council
School
FFS provide results,
reports, Impact via Healthy
Active Schools System
(NGBlinks)
Families
Partnership- the Solution
Leisure Partners – Facilities,
Workforce, Client links,
Family Database
Fit For Sport – Expertise,
Toolkits, Resources, Training
& Support, ImpactTracking

12. Healthy Active Schools System
 Record and report and measure pupils’ physical
activity
 Tracks the PE and School Sports Premium spend
and shows its impact
 Helps ensure the whole class are achieving 30
minutes of physical activity each day
 Promote pupil well-being for OFSTED
 Show the impact of the PE and School Sports
Premium spend
 Monitors and records pupils’ ability to swim 5m
to 50m
 www.healthyactiveschools.co.uk

13. HASS Dashboard

14. Reporting: Swimming
 Show swimming levels across the whole
school and individual year groups
 Show the difference in swimming levels
amongst girls and boys
 Look at swimming levels across regions and
local authorities

15. HASS Class Activity Challenge

16. HASS Class Details

17.  Show when pupils are engaging in physical
activity across the school day
 Show how much non-sport specific physical
activity pupils are getting across the school
days
Reporting: School Physical Activity

18.  Show the % split in
premium spending
 Analyse where the
premium is being
spent and it’s
effectiveness
 Compare spending
across schools and
regions
Reporting: PE and Sport Premium

19. Engagement

20. Dean Horridge
CEO - Founder, Fit For Sport
@DeanHorridge
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ffsceo
www.fitforsport.co.uk