1. National Grant & Learning Manager
Spirit of 2012
Alex Johnston
National Grant & Learning Manager
Active Highland Showcase & Planning event
19 March 2019

2. Spirit of 2012
Spirit of 2012 is a funding charity, established by the National Lottery Community Fund with a £47m endowment.
Spirit was founded to continue and recreate the spirit of pride, positivity and social connectedness that people experienced during the London 2012 Games.

3. Spirit of 2012 Investing in Happiness
We invest in happiness by funding projects that enable people to be active, creative and connected.

4. Spirit in Scotland Headlines:
71 projects to date totalling £5M (across Active, Connected, Creative and Incubation)
25 projects currently live
Area of success has been around active (connected) – funding & strategic
Spirit’s approach – collaborative and relationship building

5. Spirit in Scotland Legacy 2014 Physical Activity Fund
Sporting Equality Fund
Changing Lives through Sport & Physical Activity Fund
Work closely with the Scottish Government
ASOF

6. Getting Scotland more active

7. Legacy 2014 Physical Activity Fund
We encourage and enable the inactive to be more active.
8,000 people supported
Increased average number of days active per person
We encourage and enable the active to stay active throughout life.
We support well-being and resilience in communities through physical activity and sport.
Met or exceeded recommended minimum
Improved happiness
Reduced anxiety
Improved life satisfaction
1 in 3 increased overall level of activity
£1m fund to get more people active and learn what works in doing so.
Support 11 projects across Scotland (£70 over 1 year).
Learning phase.

8. Legacy 2014 Physical Activity Fund
Person centred approaches often provide better insights into motivations
Becoming active is a journey
Getting active is not a sprint but a series of small steps
Inactive people are often hard to reach (find)
Small things can make the biggest difference
What we learned

9. Legacy 2014 Physical Activity Fund
What we learned
Legacy 2014 Physical Activity Fund

10. Legacy 2014 Physical Activity Fund
What we learned
Legacy 2014 Physical Activity Fund

11. We don’t just fund in Scotland – we learn and share learning.
Through using Thrive you will:
Have a better understanding of how people can become active
Be better able to support people to become active.
Thrive toolkit

12. ‘The process of developing the Toolkit has helped to reinforce the credibility of the ‘approach’  to getting more people active, and Spirit of 2012 is seen as a leader in the development of the approach.’

13. Thrive can help you…
Take a person centred approach which often provides better insight into motivations to undertake physical activity and help reduce barriers.
Plan fun and social activities which recognise that getting active is not a sprint but a series of small steps.
Find inactive people who are often hard to reach and more likely to be socially isolated.
Learn and improve recognising small changes can make the biggest difference.
Design successful activities by providing tips, resources and questions to consider in your planning

15. Thrive learning programme
Designed to provide practitioners with greater support around the processes of planning, doing and reviewing that they can apply to their everyday work
A blended learning approach that will make best use of face-to-face and online learning and reflection
Pilot work being undertaken April to June 2019 with an initial cohort of practitioners
Builds on the learning from the Legacy 2014 Fund.
Final Learning Programme to be rolled out as part of the Changing Lives through Sport and Physical activity later in 2019.

16. Changing Lives through Sport & Physical Activity
We believe everyone benefits from sport and physical activity.
We want:
to make sport and physical activity more accessible for people who don’t take part
people to progress to the level they choose
to create wider benefits in areas such as health, education, communities and economy
At the heart of Thrive is collaboration. It is supported by a broad range of partners across Scotland and the UK, who have collaborated in its development and who all share a common goal of changing lives through sport & PA and getting more people active.
Thrive and Thrive learning programme is also a key part of the Changing Lives through Sport and Physical Activity programme.
The Fund.

17. Questions