The Football Association and Barclays have announced a landmark partnership, the biggest ever investment in UK women’s sport by a brand, with Barclays unveiled as the title sponsor of The FA Women’s Super League with effect from the 2019/20 season. The multimillion-pound partnership – running until July 2022 – will see the top tier of women’s football renamed as the ‘Barclays FA Women’s Super League’ and the introduction of record level...

Scotland’s walking charity, Paths for All, has helped Evanton Community Woodland to become accessible for people living with dementia. Thanks to £6,000 funding from the Life Changes Trust, Robertson Trust and The William Grant Foundation the area around the woodland cabin has been resurfaced to make it easier to walk around and new dementia friendly signage has been installed on the compost toilet and outdoor sink. Other changes include...

Enjoyment is the single biggest factor in motivating children to be active, new analysis from our Active Lives Children and Young People Survey has revealed. More than 130,000 children and young people were surveyed in the academic year 2017/18, with participation figures published in December. This new analysis has identified five key findings that give us further insight into the attitudes of children and young people towards sport an...

This interactive map has been created by Healthy London Partnerships and displays the various social prescribing services across London boroughs.

Strava, the global social network for athletes, has revealed the results of a major study into the relationship between exercise and period pain. More than 14,000 active women from around the world were involved in the research, which was conducted by a team from St Mary’s University, London and menstrual cycle tracking and exercise app FitrWoman, in partnership with Strava. It revealed that 78% of women find exercise reduces the sympto...

East Surrey is the area of the UK with the greatest scope for growth in the provision of fitness and wellness services, according to new research from MINDBODY, a specialist business management software provider for the fitness sector. Other places offering strong potential for newcomers in 2019 are Croydon, Northamptonshire, Wyre Forest, Kensington, Harrow, Broxbourne, West Lindsey, Derby, and Glasgow. None of the top 10 locations on t...

Ava, Malaika and Amira had always liked sport but participated only in a limited capacity until the chance came almost two years ago to create ‘Muscles and Mascara’, an after-school sports club for girls. That has since expanded in activities and popularity to the point where, last Friday, they launched their own community-wide ‘Newham Unity’ netball club for girls aged between 13 and 16. They embody the aims of The Telegraph's Girls, I...

It's clear exercise has health benefits both physical and mental -- but what if we could actually prove it was more important to your mental health than your economic status? According to a study carried out by researchers at Yale and Oxford, we may have done just that. In the study, published in The Lancet, scientists collected data about the physical behaviour and mental mood of over 1.2 million Americans.

It is widely known that sitting down for long periods of time, even for those who do some exercise regularly, can lead to poor health.Teams from the University of Leicester and Loughborough University wanted to investigate simple solutions to reducing sitting time in the office. The research, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), found that giving height-adjustable workstations to staff, alongside a brief educatio...

Launching at the International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress (ISPAH), the new digital Moving Medicine tool will help healthcare professionals advise patients on how physical activity can help to manage their conditions, prevent disease and aid recovery. It is produced by the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM) in partnership with Public Health England (PHE) and Sport England with support from National Lotte...