Join the movement working to improve the health and social care system across Cheshire and Merseyside to enable more of our population to be active.
This in-person stakeholder event looks at how we can work together as a wider system to further embed movement, physical activity and sport within health and care across each of the nine Places.
What you’ll gain
- A greater understanding of how physical activity can be used to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities
- New connections to help drive change within your Place
- Inspiration from a day of interactive activities and thought-provoking speakers
Who should attend
- Strategic and operational stakeholders who have a role to play in tackling inequalities
- Organisations working in health and social care, physical activity or those who support our communities (e.g. Housing Associations, voluntary sector, transport, safety, poverty, food and the social determinants of health)
- Stakeholders who work across one or more of the nine Cheshire and Merseyside Places (Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester, Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Warrington or the Wirral)
Agenda
- Opened and compered by Simon O’Brien, BAFTA award-winning TV presenter and Active Travel Commissioner for the Liverpool City Region
- Navigating the health system: an understanding of how health and social care should embrace physical activity given the current challenges and opportunities (speaker tbc)
- Evaluation and learning: how we can use a different lens to disrupt the system and demonstrate impact in a different way – Dr Lawrence Foweather, Reader in Physical Activity and Health in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at LJMU
- Whole-system working within Place: what place-based working truly means, and how physical activity can tackle inequalities (speaker tbc)
- All Together Active: connecting systems – Justine Blomeley (Chief Executive Officer at MSP, the Active Partnership for the Liverpool City Region) and Mike Watson (Chief Executive Officer at Active Cheshire, the Active Partnership for Cheshire and Warrington)
As an event themed around physical activity, plenty of accessible opportunities to move around during the day will also be provided, along with time to explore the local area too – with activities on offer for those who want to stay beyond the 2pm finish.
A ‘walking bus’ from St Helens train station will be offered to those who will be arriving via public transport to walk the 0.3 mile distance to the venue together, and we would encourage all participants to think about incorporating active travel into their journey to the venue.
Everyone is invited to attend the event in comfortable footwear as part of the #ActiveSoles movement, and for every participant that attends in comfortable footwear we’ll plant trees in the local area as a carbon offsetting contribution to the local environment.
Please register today asap, and we’ll look forward to seeing you in October!
Please note: tickets are limited and are available on a first come first served basis, however we will be opening up a waiting list if places become full.
Demand for the event is anticipated to be very high as the target audience covers the whole of Cheshire and Merseyside, therefore please be mindful of how many people attend from your team in order to keep spaces free for other organisations.
