The Network

Moving together in Tameside

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

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

Tameside is estimated to be home to over 232,700 people. The latest Active Lives results published by Sport England (November 2022-Nov 2023) shows that 68.6% of adults in Tameside are active for at least 30 minutes a week, this equates to 128,100 adults moving. However this is a decrease of 500 from 12 months ago and we need to all keep working together to support active lives for all in Tameside.

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

Active Lives data (academic year 2022-23) also shows that 73.1% of children and young people (CYP) in Tameside are moving, achieving at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day, this equates to 23,600 CYP moving.

More information about children and young people’s physical activity levels in Tameside.

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 Tameside and Glossop’s Place Partnership

Walking in Tameside

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.

Tameside is developing a three pronged approach to grow walking in the borough; walking for utility, for health and for leisure. They aim to connect passionate individuals, communities and public and private sector organisations to explore green and urban walking spaces. Their ambition is to encourage self-led activities within families, communities and local organisations, and to support the development of formal walking groups by linking experts to the network, and signposting groups to opportunities.

Learn about Tameside’s focus on walking and cycling

Walking routes in Greater Manchester

Walking groups in Greater Manchester

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 £5,170 to three organisations across Tameside, including to:

The Incredible Plastic Street Band to create and share videos, pictures, audio and activities to keep families active through walking and music
Lindley Educational Trust to run walks for young people from a diverse range of backgrounds
The Bureau to identify five accessible self-led local walking routes and to create a wide range of accompanying creative resources for children and their families

Walking Routes

Discover curated walking routes in Wigan.

visit gmwalking.co.uk

Walking Groups

Find active walking groups in your area

Find walking groups

Partners

In Tameside 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 Tameside

Active Tameside is dedicated to providing the local community with outstanding leisure, pastime and holistic wellbeing activities which generate both social and economic benefits for our users. We do this in a sustainable manner which is both inclusive and socially considered.

The organisation’s vision is to inspire the people of Tameside into living healthier, happier and more active lives as part of their local community.

Tameside sport and physical activity network

Tameside’s Sport and physical activity network aims to to engage and support all Tameside sports clubs and physical activity groups to increase participation and develop their workforce, by providing pathways and advice, along with ensuring sustainability for future generations.

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.