Sharing and Learning Summit to help support the community to become more active

On Thursday 2 October, Forfar Community Sports Hub held their first annual sharing and learning summit at Forfar’s Reid Hall.

The event was attended by around 40 delegates, who discussed the benefits of sport on health & wellbeing, ways to connect to hard to reach pockets of the community and how they can support people who face barriers to being physically active.

Local sports and activity clubs and providers presented their experiences and ways in which their organisation can help the community be active, as well as highlighting the benefit that activity plays on family relationships, opportunities to travel and most importantly, the wellbeing of the participants.

The sharing and learning summit follows on from a Walking Sports Event that was held at Station Park in Forfar back in May, where the clubs and providers met on the pitches to play Walking Cricket, Walking Football and Walking Rugby. Both events are to become an annual event on the Sports Hub partners calendar.

Ross Taylor, Community Sport Hub Coordinator with ANGUSalive said: “There was a real buzz in the room at this sharing and learning networking session and everyone left with a positive feeling on how we can take things forward to encourage more people in the Angus community to become more active. This could be from working together to ensure that club times don’t clash, to ensuring that everyone has a way of traveling to the location of an activity without any barriers.

“It’s great to bring everyone together under one roof, and to hear the positive feedback that we’ve received from the event.”

You can find out more about Community Sports Hubs in Angus at www.angusalive.scot/sport-leisure/community-sport