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Staying active can improve your quality of life and health. Just 30 minutes of moderate intensity activity five times a week can make you feel good, reduce stress and cut your chances of heart disease by half. Best of all, you can get your 30 minutes through simple, everyday activities.

Find out more at the British Heart Foundation

Welcome to Active Gloucestershire

Active Gloucestershire is the county's sports partnership. We want to get everyone in Gloucestershire more involved in sport and physical activity - whether it's playing, volunteering, coaching, officiating or simply something to do to get you fitter, healthier and feeling good about yourself!

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Sport England Unveils its New Strategy of World Leading Ambition to Increase Participation in Sport by 2012

Sport England has announced a new strategy aimed at getting one million more people to participate in sport by 2012, capitalising on the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

As well as committing to increase participation in sport, the organisation has promised to reduce the number of 16-year-olds who drop out of five key sports by 25 per cent, improve talent development systems in at least 25 sports, and make a major contribution to the delivery of the government’s Five Hour Sport Offer for children and young people.

The list of targets also includes increasing people’s satisfaction with their experience of sport, the first time the organisation will conduct such a qualitative measure... (more)

Click here to read the executive summary from the 2008 - 2011 strategy

To read the 2008 - 2011 strategy in full click here

Click here to link to the announcement on the Sport England website.

Click here to link to the announcement on the DCMS website on Friday 6 June.

Gloucestershire Sports Awards 2008

To coincide with National Volunteers' Week nominations are now open for the 2008 Gloucestershire Sports Awards!

Nominate an individual, club/organisation for an award today. Click here to submit our online form or email kfarr@glos.ac.uk for a hard copy and more information.