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What is Place Expansion?

We know that Hull is a unique city, but our residents, neighbourhoods, and communities face health inequalities, economic deprivation and as a result are more likely to be inactive. The Towards an Active Hull Partnership, a multi-agency partnership, including the voluntary and community sector, NHS, Active Humber, Hull Culture and Leisure Ltd, and Hull City Council believe helping people to move more can help the city to address some of these systemic challenges and improve outcomes for our residents.

The partnerships work to date has meant that Hull has been selected by Sport England to become a Place Expansion Partner as part of its national strategy to get more people active. Hull is only one of 80 ‘places’ in England which have been selected, and such is the depth of the challenge we face as a city, the entire of Hull is classed as a ‘place’, as opposed to others which are focused on individual wards or smaller locations.

This is a once in a generation opportunity will enable us to have the capacity to identify the opportunities and enablers in our system to move more. Through our engagement and insight work, we will listen to our residents andpartners to develop a partnership across the city that enables more people to become physically active. We want to be able to change the system so that our partner organisations across all sectors, regardless of their role, understand the importance of getting Hull active, and embed this into their thinking and decision making. Helping us to create the best conditions and environment possible for residents to move more.

You can watch this video to get more information on what Place Expansion is http://youtube.com/watch?v=1wnIf7we5fI

When is this work in Hull going to happen?

The work has begun. The Towards an Active Hull Partnership has been working on increasing physical activity rates in the city for many years but new funding will enable us to accelerate this work. It’s for our neighbourhoods and communities, we want to support our fantastic voluntary community sector, groups, clubs, and organisations to grow and become the local leaders to influence change to help create the right conditions to help get their neighbourhoods more active.
At the heart of Place Expansion in Hull is partnership. Ideas and solutions to bring about change will be created collaboratively. We need as many people as possible to be part of this movement.

How will Place Expansion Work?

The Development Phase, which we are in now, will last until Summer 2025, the Towards an Active Hull Partnership will work with partners to understand what opportunities there are for residents, communities, and organisations to be more active. We will also work with local stakeholders and leaders to explore what opportunities they have to help our residents move more. This will help us to identify system-wide changes that will create the right conditions in our city that supports our residents to be active. This findings from the development stage will feed into a ‘full’ application to Sport England which will help us to make the long-term changes across our system to increase physical activity.

A Q&A Guide on Place Expansion

What this work is	What the work is not
Doing things differently To drive change across Hulls’ system to enable people to move more, by tackling the root causes of inactivity and inequality, making movement and physical activity part of everybody’s life.	A simple quick fix project This is about meaningful, long-term improvement in physical activity, it cannot be done by fixing one issue or be accomplished by one stakeholder alone.
Distributed leadership Placing the needs, and voices, of local communities and stakeholders at the heart of this work.	Led and delivered by one agency We need leaders at all levels to bring about the sustained changes in physical activity and we need to working partnership.
Flexible and evolving Working towards achieving Sport England’s overarching long-term outcomes of: Increasing Activity, Reducing Inactivity, Positive Experiences for Children and Young People, Tacking Inequalities.	Delivery of short-term interventions, programs, or projects Place Expansion is focused upon long-term, sustainable change. Short-term interventions, projects, and programs do not fix the underlying causes of the inequality which exists.
About long-term change Some of this change will be visible to all, some will be about changing the policies, procedures and strategies which are invisible to residents but have a significant impact on their daily lives and creating the right conditions to move more.	A competitive grant process Place Expansion is not a ‘dash for cash’. Any investment plans will be based on the outcomes of the research, co-designed and reflective of the need of local communities and will support long- term sustainable change.

What this work is

What the work is not

Doing things differently

To drive change across Hulls’ system to enable people to move more, by tackling the root causes of inactivity and inequality, making movement and physical activity part of everybody’s life.

A simple quick fix project

This is about meaningful, long-term improvement in physical activity, it cannot be done by fixing one issue or be accomplished by one stakeholder alone.

Distributed leadership

Placing the needs, and voices, of local communities and stakeholders at the heart of this work.

Led and delivered by one agency

We need leaders at all levels to bring about the sustained changes in physical activity and we need to working partnership.

Flexible and evolving

Working towards achieving Sport England’s overarching long-term outcomes of: Increasing Activity, Reducing Inactivity, Positive Experiences for Children and Young People, Tacking Inequalities.

Delivery of short-term interventions, programs, or projects

Place Expansion is focused upon long-term, sustainable change. Short-term interventions, projects, and programs do not fix the underlying causes of the inequality which exists.

About long-term change

Some of this change will be visible to all, some will be about changing the policies, procedures and strategies which are invisible to residents but have a significant impact on their daily lives and creating the right conditions to move more.

A competitive grant process

Place Expansion is not a ‘dash for cash’. Any investment plans will be based on the outcomes of the research, co-designed and reflective of the need of local communities and will support long- term sustainable change.