Women’s Running Network
The Women’s Running Network (WRN) was founded 11 years ago in Exeter to encourage women to run who would not normally consider that they could. Our ethos of all shapes, all sizes, all ages, all stages embraces all women and encourages them to improve their fitness and well-being. Our youngest is 12 and our oldest at present is 73.
The aim of WRN was to get women active but initially with no plans of expanding outside Exeter. As we grew our success spread to other parts of the country.
AimHI
Aim HI is a resource that contains over 50 activities for girls, based on the idea that good health is a combination of physical, mental and social wellbeing. The resource supported Girlguiding UK’s Healthy Individual Campaign for 2008. The activities touch on the areas of health, good and bad, that young people may encounter in their day-to-day lives. The pack was designed to show leaders that including healthy living activities in their programmes is easy and fun and to encourage them to continue doing so in the future.
Futsal Fever
Futsal Fever is a project which targets females aged 16+ who attend FE and HE institutes across Bedfordshire.
Sweat in the City
Sweat in the City (SitC) was an innovation research project to help to find out why 16- 24 year old women are half as active as men of the same age. With the help of a feminine brand, celebrity ambassadors and a chance to discover a ‘fitter and healthier you’, over 2000 young women across London were recruited and provided with a three-month free and mentored gym membership.
Women and girls in judo
The women and girls in judo project focuses on creating environments to encourage the retention of female members (including special needs members). To do this we have created a Female Club Model. We provide the opportunity for female members to practice together at club, area and national levels and develop and promote models of good practice in all technical areas. We also deliver seminars and workshops to encourage good practice and create a positive image of judo through promotions and merchandise.
Bollywood Dancing in Schools
We wanted to engage girls who were largely inactive within the curricular PE programme and extra-curricular activities.
The target audience of girls were from an ethnic minority background where sport was not seen as a priority by them or their families. These girls did the minimum of work in PE classes and although they were never disruptive, they were not getting anything out of the programmes that were on offer. The majority of these girls rarely interacted with any of the teaching staff.
Essex 7s women's football league
Since Jan 2008 ECFA has been running female ‘get back into football’ sessions within Essex’s Metropolitan Boroughs as well as outer Essex. The success of the sessions gave us the idea of offering those females an opportunity to play some form of competitive football. A one off 7s event took place in August 2008 with 5 teams taking part. Due to the success we made the decision to turn it into a league and we are now in our third season. Each league consists of 4 monthly events with all results rolling over each month to work out the eventual winners.
Women in Motion - Telford and Wrekin Community Health Services
The ‘Women in Motion’ project is a BIG Lottery funded initiative which sits within the Living Well West Midlands portfolio. It is one of 29 innovative health and wellbeing projects running across 14 locations within the West Midlands. The project gives females the opportunity to increase their levels of physical activity either as a participant or by becoming a Community Physical Activity Leader. The project recruits female volunteers and funds them to gain nationally recognised qualifications in various disciplines of sport and fitness.
Fit For Girls - Bishopsbriggs Academy
We wanted to increase girls' participation in sport and physical activity at Bishopsbriggs School in Scotland.