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Moving together in Salford

Learn about the work happening within Salford to support active lives for all

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Salford is estimated to be home to over 278,000 people. The Active Lives results published by Sport England (November 2022-Nov 2023) shows that 74.9% of adults in Rochdale are active for at least 30 minutes a week, this equates to 167,600 adults moving. This is an increase of 14,500 from 12 months ago but we need to all keep working together to support active lives for all in Salford.

Explore Salford adults activity levels related to key demographic data such as gender, age and disability.

The 2022-23 Active Lives data for Children and Young People (CYP) shows that 59.7% of CYP in Salford are moving, achieving at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day, this equates to 21,600 CYP moving.

Explore children and young people’s physical activity levels in Salford.

Place Partnerships

Place Partnerships aim to reduce inactivity and health inequalities. To do this we take a place-based, approach that brings together people, communities, and organisations to create sustainable solutions to inactivity.

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Local Strategy

Salford’s local strategy

The Move More Salford campaign aims to inspire the people of Salford to live healthy, happier, and thrive.

The campaign aims to inspire movement back into people’s everyday lives. Because when we move more, it contributes to our physical and mental wellbeing.

Over the next five years, they are on a mission to empower the people of their city to live happier and healthier. They want their communities, places, and economy to thrive, so everyone can get to contribute to this vibrant and growing city.

From parks, leisure facilities, community groups, health and wellbeing sessions, trails, and loop lines, Salford offers 100s ways to walk, wheel, dance, and run your way to better health and mental wellbeing.

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Walking in Salford

Across Greater Manchester, there is a clear recognition of the importance of walking to population scale change in physical activity and there is widespread understanding of the critical role of walking – for leisure, for travel and for everyday activity.

Salford is committed to creating the conditions for people to choose to walk across the City and connect to other areas. The Active Lifestyles Team at Salford Community Leisure offer a range of community activities including led Wellbeing Walks, open to anyone, providing the whole community with the opportunity to live a healthier, more active lifestyle. Many of these explore Salford’s blue and green spaces and link with Salford’s walking Trail.

Salford has also secured significant investment to extend its award-winning traffic-free network and connect to the wider Bee Network – Greater Manchester’s walking and cycling network.

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Walking Routes

There are several curated walks in Salford, visit the GM Walking website to discover new routes in your borough

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Walking Groups

Find active walking groups in your area

Find walking groups at gmawalking.org.uk
Worsley Woodlands Action Group

Worsley Woodlands Action Group

A local group organising walks and volunteering

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Community Investment Fund grants

GM Walking has given grants to nearly 90 local voluntary and community groups with the aim of getting Greater Manchester walking. They offered the grants to support a huge range of activities that encourage people who are usually less active to start or to increase the amount they regularly walk. Almost half of the successful applications were from organisations based in the most deprived 20% of the region.

They gave a total of £14,840 to five organisations across Salford, including to:

  • Worsley Woods Action Group to run six wildlife-themed walks in Worsley Woods
  • Langworthy Cornerstone Association to encourage people living near the A6 corridor to get walking in their local area
  • Shalheves to set up a walking programme for 60 Jewish women with long-term health conditions
  • Start in Salford to host guided walking tours of local parks and greenspaces for people experiencing mental health issues
  • The Ability Cooperative to run a series of walking sessions to increase physical activity among adults with a range of learning and/or physical disabilities

Partners

In Salford a range of partners are working to support people to be more active and to design moving, physical activity and sport back into daily life.

Salford Community Leisure

Salford Community Leisure

Salford Community Leisure (SCL) is run by and for the people of Salford, and is committed to enhancing the physical and cultural wellbeing of the community through the sport, library and cultural opportunities.

Salford Red Devils Foundation

Salford Red Devil’s Foundation

The charitable trust of Salford Red Devils that inspires the community through sport, health and education delivery across Salford, Greater Manchester and beyond.

Foundation 92

Foundation 92

An independent charity linked to Salford City Football Club, F92 will focus on supporting people to improve their lives through sport. It has an emphasis on positive physical and mental wellbeing, and supporting people with a disability, people who are experiencing homelessness, or young people who have, or may be at risk of, committing offences.

Salford CVS

Salford Community and Voluntary Services

Salford CVS is the city-wide infrastructure organisation for the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector; providing specialist information, advice, development support and opportunities for influence and collaboration. They provide support for organisations to establish and develop including training for their staff, volunteers and trustees.

School sport partnerships in Salford

Salford School Games Organisers

School Games Organisers (SGOs) have several key roles: to coordinate appropriate competitive opportunities for all young people from Key Stage 2-4, to recruit, train and deploy a suitable workforce, and to support the development of club opportunities for all young people. In Salford, the SGOs are Dean Gilmore and Becky Robinson.

Get more active in Salford

Health improvement service

The Health Improvement Service can help you to take the first steps towards getting more active. Whether you’re interested in walking, cycling, outdoor gym, tennis or even gardening. Or you might just be interested in meeting new people and having the chance to talk. Groups and activities can be freely joined.

Bee Network in Salford

Transport for Greater Manchester

TfGM have a number of schemes aimed at making active travel the number one choice for travelling to work, to school and to the shops. This includes ‘The Bee Network’ connecting up areas and communities in Greater Manchester, making it easy, safe and attractive for people to travel on foot or by bike for everyday trips.

Further information

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