Tackling Inactivity in City and Hackney
This project grew from our longstanding Making Every Contact Count (MECC) training programme for the London Borough of Hackney and the City of London. Our task was to design and deliver a bespoke training for Community Health Champions that equipped them with the skills and confidence to talk about physical activity in their everyday interactions with local people.
With a focus on real conversations and practical action, the training drew from MECC, health inequality data, motivational techniques, and local service knowledge. The interactive and practical sessions aimed not only to inform but empower.
The session combined insight into the benefits of physical activity with an understanding of the demographic factors that can impact engagement, in line with the latest government guidance. Alongside this, we focused on how to have effective conversations about physical activity, using audio clips and practical activties to explore which types of language help build motivation and which ones can shut it down.
Key insights we explored include:
The response from participants was overwhelmingly positive. The training gave them not only a better understanding of physical activity, but also clear strategies to support others in their communitiy to move more.