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Moving together in Trafford

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

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Trafford is estimated to be home to over 236,300 people.

The latest Active Lives results published by Sport England (November 2022-Nov 2023) shows that 75.2% of adults in Trafford are active for at least 30 minutes a week, this equates to 140,600 adults moving. However this is a decrease of 2,100 from 12 months ago and we need to all keep working together to support active lives for all in Trafford.

Learn more about Trafford activity levels related to key demographic data such as gender, age and disability.

Active Lives data (academic year 2022-23) also shows that 67.7% of children and young people (CYP) in Trafford are moving, achieving at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day, this equates to 24,900 CYP moving.

Find more information about children and young people’s physical activity levels in Trafford.

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 Trafford’s Place Partnership
Local Strategy

Trafford’s local strategy – Trafford Moving

Trafford Council launched its new Sports and Physical Activity Strategy that sets out its bold ambition to get every resident in Trafford moving more, every day. The strategy, ‘Trafford Moving’ supports the Council’s 2031 Vision of making Trafford a national beacon for sports, leisure and activity for all, by investing in leisure facilities across the Borough and encouraging more people to get involved in physical activity.

The Trafford Sport & Physical Activity Partnership is a partnership of organisations that strategically and operationally enable and deliver sport and physical activity in Trafford. The Partnership includes the local authority, professional sports organisations, charities and education providers. It also encompasses amateur sports clubs. They will be responsible for the implementation of ‘Trafford Moving’.

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Our recent work in Trafford

​Right to the Streets

Using the Home Office Safer Streets Fund, the Right to the Streets project in Trafford explores ways to make streets and public spaces safer and more welcoming for women and girls, enabling them to feel a sense of belonging in their community and able to live active lives.

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Walking in Trafford

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.

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Walking Routes

There are several curated walks in Bury, visit the gmwalking website to discover new routes in your borough

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Find walking groups

Walking Groups

Find active walking groups in your area

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Funding in Trafford

Together Fund

GM Moving worked with Sport England to identify, support, and offer funding to community groups and organisations passionate about tackling inequalities surrounding access to sport and physical activity opportunities for priority audiences within their local areas.

In Trafford, several projects benefitted from the funding and successfully engaged their communities while improving physical activity levels:

  • Cycling Projects
  • Trafford Council
  • Mile Shy Club
  • TUF*C
Funding in Trafford

Community Investment Fund grants

GM Walking has given grants to nearly 90 local voluntary and community groups. They offered grants to support a 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 £19,493 to five organisations across Trafford, including:

  • Age UK Trafford to encourage local residents who are over 50 to attend guided walks to reduce loneliness and social isolation
  • Altrincham Community Response Hub to set up a buddy scheme to increase walking confidence among older people with physical difficulties
  • The Conservation Volunteers to support Trafford residents with learning difficulties to walk more
  • Collaborative Women UK CIC to run a community walking project for women who have experienced domestic abuse
  • Friends of Victoria Park Stretford to form a litter picking walking group, and to set up a weekly walking group for adults with a long-term illness or disability

Partners in Trafford

In Trafford 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.

Learn about Trafford Leisure

Trafford Leisure

Trafford Leisure offer a wide range of health, wellbeing and fitness activities for everyone whatever their age or ability, we welcome the whole community.

Learn about Lancashire Cricket Foundation

Lancashire Cricket Foundation

The Lancashire Cricket Foundation works to develop and deliver a range of projects, programmes and events designed to engage, excite, inspire and improve individuals and communities through cricket. Established as the official charity of Lancashire Cricket the Lancashire Cricket Foundation provides governance for the recreational game and high quality experiences that make a positive difference to the lives of the individuals and communities we engage in order to grow the appeal of the game at all levels.

Learn about MU Foundation

Manchester United Foundation

The MU Foundation use football to engage and inspire young people to build a better life for themselves and unite the communities in which they live. Dedicated staff deliver educational and community outreach programmes to help young people make positive choices in their lives.

Learn about Sale Sharks

Sale Sharks Foundation

Sale Sharks aims to use the core values of Rugby Union to make a positive impact on the community across Greater Manchester. This is achieved by providing high quality education, health and social inclusion programmes and increasing participation in Rugby Union and other sporting activities.

Learn about VCAT Shared Space Initiative

Voluntary and Community Action Trafford

VCAT aims to develop an effective and highly skilled voluntary and community sector, capable of making a strong contribution towards a fair and open society in Trafford. As the local support and development agency in Trafford, our role is to help voluntary and community groups and local charities in their development.

Trafford 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.
Contact Trafford’s SGOs at cdyson@aom.trafford.sch.uk and kay.statham@vantageacademies.co.uk.

Bee Network in Trafford

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 details please contact

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