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Pilots: aims and target audience

  • Last modified date:
    9 February 2007

Each LEAP pilot has specific aims and objectives:

North East - Durham Dales PCT

Durham Dales PCT aims to:

Develop a preventative pilot programme targeting 5-14 year olds within their locality.

Provide a specific programme to give young people aged 11-14 who are identified as sedentary, from deprived and disadvantaged market town areas, the knowledge and skills necessary to become physically active and become change agents within their peer groups.

The pilot will deliver through partnership working, creating strong links between physical activity and health whilst contributing to the evidence base and ensuring equal opportunities and access for all.

Click on the link below for more information about the Durham Dales PCT LEAP project :-

Yorkshire & Humber - North Kirklees PCT

North Kirklees PCT aims to:

  • Make more people, more active, more often with a view to improving health, well being and quality of life.

In particular they plan to work with people who are sedentary and moderately active, and with specific identified at risk groups e.g. adults and older people with diabetes, young people at risk from CHD, in particular those with problems controlling weight and diabetes, and young South Asian girls.

Click on the link below for more information about the North Kirklees PCT LEAP project :-

North West - Ashton, Leigh & Wigan PCT

Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT aims to:

  • Develop an integrated programme of physical activity opportunities addressing the needs of older people (50+ years), targeting deprived communities within the Borough of Wigan.
  • Build on existing good practice and service provision, and pilot new initiatives that will improve the health and well being of older people and contribute towards a reduction in local health inequalities.

Click on the link below for more information about the Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT LEAP project :-

West Midlands - Dudley Beacon & Castle with Dudley South PCT

Dudley Beacon & Castle with Dudley South PCT aims to:

  • Increase and encourage the use of parks and open spaces for health enhancing physical activity by disadvantaged groups across the borough
  • Pilot a monitoring and data collection model which will provide a valuable insight into physical activity trends around uptake, content and adherence.

The interventions target a broad range of people including young and older people, people at risk and recovering from health problems, and people from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Click on the link below for more information about the Dudley Beacon & Castle with Dudley South PCT LEAP project :-

East Midlands - Nottingham City PCT

Nottingham City PCT aims to:

  • Increase the number of adults aged 50 years and older who take regular moderate physical activity by 5%, and reduce the number of sedentary adults in the age group by 10% within the most deprived areas of Nottingham PCT.

East of England - Great Yarmouth PCT

Great Yarmouth PCT aims to:

  • Help identify, meet and address inequalities in the health related physical activity needs of the local communities:
    - by integrating three innovative physical activity interventions into primary care systems
    - by providing tools to be used by the Great Yarmouth Community Empowerment Framework to engage the community, ensuring that effective initiatives will be continued beyond the term of the LEAP project.

The interventions will reach a broad target audience including children and young people, older people, people at high risk of illness or recovering from CHD or stroke, and black and minority ethnic groups.

Click on the link below for more information about the Great Yarmouth PCT LEAP project :-

South West - West of Cornwall PCT

West of Cornwall PCT aims to:

  • Encourage and support sedentary people 'at risk of' or with a medical condition that would improve if they were physically active, and those who have recovered from a medical condition and been discharged to participate in active recreation for health and social benefits.
  • Bring the health and leisure sectors together in partnership to provide information and support for those at risk of developing, or recovering from, medical conditions.

South West - Plymouth PCT

Plymouth PCT aims to:

  • Investigate, support and promote a range of measures for increasing levels of physical activity in young people to the recommended level of one hour's moderate intensity activity a day, with swimming being central to the overall project.

In particular they plan to work with young people, between 13 and 14 years old, whose health will significantly benefit from increasing their levels of physical activity through a free swimming programme.

Click on the link below for more information about the Plymouth PCT LEAP project :-

South East- Hastings & St.Leonards PCT

Hastings and St. Leonards aims to:

  • Increase the number of children and young people (aged 9 - 25) living in Hastings taking regular, moderate intensity physical exercise.

Evidence from the local School Sports Partnership suggests that 65% of school children in Hastings do not join any after school sport or physical activity clubs outside of school. 

Click on the link below for more information about the Hastings & St.Leonards PCT LEAP project:-

London - Wandsworth PCT

Wandsworth PCT aims to:

  • Create an integrated physical activity promotion programme, using local environmental adaptations and other physical activity initiatives, to promote moderate physical activity more effectively.

They are targeting sedentary and 'at risk' groups living within an area of recognised deprivation in Wandsworth.

Click on the link below for more information about the Wandsworth PCT LEAP project:-

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