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Moving together in Stockport

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

diverse group of people walking in a park surrounded my trees and grass

Stockport is estimated to be home to over 288,700 people. The Active Lives results published by Sport England (November 2019-Nov 2020) shows that 73.8% of adults in Stockport are active for at least 30 minutes a week, this equates to 174,400 adults moving. However this is a decrease of 3,600 from 12 months ago and we need to all keep working together to support active lives for all in Stockport.

Active Lives data (2019-20) also showed that *63.4% of children and young people in Greater Manchester are moving, achieving at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day. In Stockport 71.1% children and young people are moving 30 mins + per day.

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

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.

Read about Stockport’s Place Partnership

Walking in Stockport

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.

Stockport is a great place to walk with an abundance of greenspace, public rights of way and other routes. We are keen to encourage walking as both a leisure activity and a mode of transport supporting both physical and mental health. To do this, Stockport offers a range of self-led and group led walks, these include:

Ramblers wellbeing walks
Walkaday
Green A-Z maps
Maps of routes in parks and greenspace
Walk Stockport

We also hold a walking and cycling forum which enables you to become involved in the development of walking in the future and links in with the walk/ride groups of the borough.

Explore walking in Stockport

Stockport offers a range of maps showing routes for different walking abilities in Woodbank and Vernon park. These have been developed in collaboration with friends of park group and other associated groups within the park plus wider residents. These maps are available online, in hard copy and displayed throughout the park.

Walk Stockport offers walks to help you get active and stay active at a pace that suits you. All walks are free, friendly, have toilet facilities and end at a café. The shorter walks have resting areas if required. The walks range from 30 to 90 minutes. If you’d like to find out more about the Walking for Health programme, you can email stockportwalkcycle@stockport.gov.uk.

User Friendly Fellowship weekly Walk and Talk sessions

Stockport User Friendly Fellowship provided mental health and alcohol support for people in the Stockport area who are suffering and recovering from a range of mental health problems. They offered a range of social, therapeutic, leisure, volunteering opportunities and activities that take place in mental health community settings and throughout the wider community recognising individuality and support people on their recovery journey.

Walking Routes

Visit the GM Walking website to discover new routes in your borough

visit gmwalking.co.uk

Walking Groups

Find active walking groups in your area

Find walking groups at gmawalking.org.uk

Partners

In Stockport 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.

Active Communities Strategy

A refreshed Active Communities Strategy has launched to get ‘Stockport Moving Together’. 1 in 3 adults and half of the children in Stockport are not physically active enough daily to maintain their health and wellbeing as they grow older. Stockport Moving Together aims to reduce that number by working with residents, communities, and key partners across multiple sectors to increase opportunities to move more.

Healthy Stockport

A place to find Information, resources and support to help you take care of and protect your health and mental wellbeing now and in the future. ‘Moving more’ is a key component of this service, highlighting different ways to get moving.

Seashell Trust

Seashell Trust helps children and young people with very complex needs, and their families, live their best lives. The Seashell Active sports, physical activity and wellbeing team form an important part of Seashell offering a wide range of inclusive sport, wellbeing, health and leisure activities for our students, staff and the wider community. We aim to deliver quality, inclusive opportunities for people to be active, join a group, have fun and make friends. The benefits of being active help to live a happier, healthier life.

Life Leisure

Life Leisure is the trading name of Stockport Sports Trust, to provide leisure and recreation facilities and services, including sports development, for the Stockport community and visitors to the area. A not for profit social enterprise company and registered charity, our aim is to provide a best value service in all areas in which we operate, by investing every penny we make back into our local communities, to make them a better place to live.

We are focused on promoting our facilities and sport and leisure to families and individuals of all ages and backgrounds. We operate a social inclusive approach to ensure equality of opportunity for all and we openly value diversity so that everyone can enjoy the benefits of participating in sports and leisure activities.

Stockport Schools', Health, Activity, PE and Sport Alliance

Stockport Schools’, Health, Activity, PE and Sport Alliance (SHAPES) are part of the national school games programme and serve the young people of Stockport by working with schools and families around 5 priority areas:- high quality PE, participation, leadership, competition and school to club links.

Judith Riddings is the SHAPES Alliance Development Manager and Dan Turner is the SHAPES Alliance Assistant Development Manager.

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.