Changing lives outcomes include:
- people enjoy better physical & mental health
- people better engage in positive & healthier behaviours and choices
- people recover from illness more effectively
- people are more happy & confident
Tools & resources
- Get your club and hub 100% CPR ready - Save a life Scotland
- Empowering sport to tackle bullying – NSPCC resource library
Paths for All:
- Walking for wellbeing & good mental health - toolkit (SAMH)
- Health walks map
- Big fit walk
- Smarter choices, smarter places programme
- Dementia friendly walking
- Community path resources
SAMH:
- 5 ways to better mental health
- 5 ways to better wellbeing for your families
- Understanding mental health problems
- Wellbeing self-assessment tool
- List of SAMH publications
Scotland's mental health charter for physical activity & sport:
- What is the mental health charter?
- SIGN UP your clubs, hubs and community organisations
- Who's already signed up?
Watch, listen & read
- How football saved Paul McNeill's life - 4min YouTube video - Scottish FA
- Community sport hub case study - inactive to active - Drumchapel
- Community sport hub case study - people - health and wellbeing - Perth
- Article - Beyond participation to sport for change - Robertson Trust
- Article - Walking Football - sportfirst
- Get Out Get Active - Scottish Disability Sport projects
- Mental health for sport and physical activity providers - UKCoaching
- Becoming a SMOKE FREE club – ideas from Quit, Australia
- Inactive to active – What works? A factsheet from Scottish Government
- Mental wellbeing scale - Edinburgh / Warwick - for projects and programmes
- The Big Mad Swim & Anxiety - Paula McGuire - podcast - The Blether with Paul Graham
- Paula McGuire used Glasgow 2014 to tackle anxiety
- Why sitting is bad for you - Ted-Ed video (5mins)
- Addressing adverse childhood experiences in Scotland (ACEs) - ScotPHN report May 2016
- Responding to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to tackle the attainment gap - NHS Scotland Report
- Sport protects mental health of children - article - The Guardian
- Get inspired Unsung Here 2018 - Scottish Swimming volunteer Kirsty Ewen
Helpful organisations
- Thrive toolkit
- The Robertson Trust
- evaluation support for third sector organisations – Evaluation Support Scotland
- Find more support for sport – Social Enterprise Network
- SAMH - Scottish Association for Mental Health
- Paths for All