Active Norfolk publishes 2025-26 Impact Report
Our impact report which has launched today is a look back at a year of helping more people get active, tackling inequalities and working with partners across Norfolk to create healthier, stronger communities.
What have we been up to?
We’ve had a busy year at Active Norfolk.
Our 2025-26 Impact Report is now live, bringing together some of the people, partnerships, programmes and achievements that have shaped the last 12 months.
It’s a snapshot of what we’ve been working on, and, more importantly, the difference that work has helped to make.
From supporting children and young people to be active, to helping people access physical activity through health services, making sport safer and more inclusive, and working with communities to understand and tackle local barriers, our work has covered a lot of ground.
And there are some numbers in the report that we’re particularly proud of.
The stories behind the numbers.
Creating positive experiences of physical activity early in life can help build habits that last. That’s why supporting children and young people is such an important part of our work.
This year, over 40,000 young people took part in Norfolk School Games, while our Creating Active Schools programme worked with 13 schools to create bespoke action plans to embed physical activity into everyday school life.
We also supported 14 schools and more than 6,300 pupils through our Active Travel work, helping schools explore how walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling can become part of the school day.
These are just a few examples of the work we’re doing to help more young people find ways to move that work for them.
Making activity more accessible
Being active isn’t equally easy or accessible for everyone. A big part of our work is understanding the barriers people face and working with partners to remove them.
Across the year, we’ve supported projects focused on inclusion through the Get Out Get Active programme and Special Olympics, and worked with communities to understand local needs and helped organisations develop more inclusive opportunities to be active.
From supporting disabled people to take part in sport and physical activity, to working with communities experiencing greater inequalities, the report explores some of the ways we’re trying to make being active a realistic option for more people across Norfolk.
Creating safer, stronger places to be active
We want to create the right conditions for people to feel safe, welcome and supported when they start a sport or activity.
Our Sport Welfare Officer supported more than 150 organisations during the year, helping clubs and organisations strengthen their approaches to safeguarding and welfare.
Alongside this, we’re continuing to work with partners on issues including sustainability, active travel and the role that the places where we live can play in making physical activity easier.
Take a look at the Impact Report
These figures are part of a much larger story that we’re excited to share with you.
Explore the full 2025-26 Impact Report to discover more about our work, and the impact it’s had to communities across Norfolk.