• Welcome to the Creating Active Communities Conference!

• How the challenge of inactivity binds us as a system
• To change behaviour in people , we may need to change our own
•  People and place – the story of the pilots as a story of us and a story of now
• Relationships not transactions
•  The leadership challenge

•  The Greater Manchester journey
• Progress and learning so far
• Current priorities, opportunities and challenges
• Where next for GM Moving?
• Learning and future questions for system leaders

• Overview of key stats and facts on group exercise
• Highlighting the mental and physical health benefits, social and economic benefits
• Accessing group exercise in local communities

• How we design and construct our environment is key to controlling disease, like sanitation and cholera in the 19thcentury todays battle is against obesity and to help preserve our physical and mental health.
• Inactivity creates heart disease, diabetes and a myriad of other health problems: our lazy lifestyles are hitting back and costing us dearly.
• The case study will explore through a series of vignette schemes, some of the ways our everyday spaces can help fight this battle and the many benefits they can bring to society.

• The Road World Championships for seniors
• Active ageing

• Inspiration. Why I do what I do
• Problems to overcome – Why community infrastructure collapses
• Barriers – Changing culture: Managing staff, volunteers and their expectations
• Data – Understanding how technology can empower you, inform your strategy, commissioning and funding plans
• Next steps – Planning ahead for real!!

• The Context
• The Challenges
• Local Insight
• The Response 
• Questions and Answers

Using examples from work with UEFA, GM Moving, RNLI, Sport England and Government to reflect on a journey through: - 

• Mission alignment
• Data dependancy 
• Enhancing impact
• Shared learning 
• Thought leadership and influence

• Setting the scene
• The Parks for Health Assessment Toolkit
• Multiple Parks Health Analysis
• The Parks and Green Spaces Health Framework
• Applying the evidence in the real world

• How partnerships can use primary and open data to better engage with inactive and under-represented communities to affect lasting change.
• A panel discussion with contributors for Wigan’s SHAPE (Sport, Health and Physical Education) board exploring how collaborative leadership, offline  partnership and robust data can better inform programme design, engagement strategies and achieve positive participation outcomes.

• Dutch school children are among the healthiest and happiest in the world.
• Two-thirds of journeys to schools are made by cycling and walking.
• How does the physical environment around schools in the Netherlands differ from the UK?
• How can we create safer, more active places and help transform the family experience of journeys to school?

• Why disadvantaged communities - what are the key issues?
• Think assets not deficits
• How an asset based approach can help create active communities

• Health inequalities in the lives of disaffected and disadvantaged communities continue to challenge policies, strategies, initiatives and resources. 
• The mental, physical and emotional impact on disillusioned young people has lead to anti-social gang-related behaviour and extremism.
• There is currently a lack of a truly integrated policy and strategic approach in improving the physical activity efforts to date by sports inclusion, participation and development for peace.