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Information Centre - Links & Useful Websites

 
 

Below are links to websites containing details of organisations and initiatives involved in promoting a physically active and healthy lifestyle.

For details of additional organisations, visit the Links and Useful Websites pages for each of the populations and settings that the BHFNC works with.

If your organisation would like to have a link on the BHFNC website, or if you would like to include our details on your organisation's website, please email BHFNC@lboro.ac.uk

The BHFNC is in no way responsible or liable for the content or suitability of any of these sites.

 

UK

BASES www.bases.org.uk

BHF Health Promotion Research Group, Oxford
www.dphpc.ox.ac.uk/bhfhprg

BTCV Green Gyms www.btcv.org/greengym

Centre Council for Physical Recreation www.ccpr.org.uk

Communities and Local Government www.communities.gov.uk

Community Health Profiles www.communityhealthprofiles.info

Countryside Agency www.countryside.gov.uk

Department for Culture Media and Sport www.dcms.gov.uk

Department for Education and Skills www.DfES.gov.uk

Department for Health www.dh.gov.uk

Department for Transport www.dft.gov.uk

Direct gov www.direct.gov.uk

English Institute of Sport www.eis2win.co.uk

Emphasis www.emphasisnetwork.org.uk

English Federation for Disability Sport www.efds.net

Faculty of Public Health www.fph.org.uk

Forestry Commission www.forestry.gov.uk

Free Swimming, Amateur Swimming Association www.freeswimming.org

Health Promotion Agency, NI www.healthpromotionagency.org.uk

Her Majesty’s Treasury www.hm-treasury.gov.uk

Inclusive Fitness Initiative www.inclusivefitness.org

Living Streets www.livingstreets.org.uk 

London 2012 www.london2012.org/en
Olympic Delivery Authority www.london2012.org/en/ourvision/ODA

Naturally Active www.naturallyactive.org

National Heart Forum www.heartforum.org.uk

Scottish institute of Sport www.sisport.com

Scottish Physical Activity Alliance www.paha.org.uk

Skills Active www.skillsactive.com

Skills for Health www.skillsforhealth.org.uk

SPARColl www.sparcoll.org.uk

Sports Coach UK www.sportscoachuk.org

Sport England www.sportengland.org.uk

SportEX and HealthEX www.sportex.net

Sports Institute Northern Ireland www.sini.co.uk

Sport Scotland www.sportscotland.org.uk

Sustrans www.sustrans.org.uk

Travel Wise www.travelwise.org.uk

UK Public Health Association www.ukpha.org.uk

Wales Centre for Health www.wch.wales.nhs.uk

Walking the Way to Health Initiative www.whi.org.uk

Welsh Institute of Sport www.welsh-institute-sport.co.uk

Women’s Sport Foundation www.wsf.org.uk

What Works for Women www.whatworksforwomen.org.uk

The Wright Foundation www.wrightfoundation.com

 

International

Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
www.health.gov.au

Australian Sports Commission Australian Government www.ausport.gov.au

Active Living by Design www.activelivingbydesign.org

Active Living Research www.activelivingresearch.org

American College of Sports Medicine www.acsm.org

American Heart Association www.americanheart.org

Asia Pacific Physical Activity Network (APPAN) www.ap-pan.org

Building a Healthy, Active Australia www.healthyactive.gov.au

Coalition for Active Living www.activeliving.ca

Centre for Disease Control (CDC) www.cdc.gov
physical activity index page
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/index.htm

European Heart Network www.ehnheart.org

European network for the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) www.euro.who.int/hepa

Global Alliance for Physical Activity (GAPA)
www.ryates.me.uk/gapa4/index.htm

The Guide to Community Preventive Services www.thecommunityguide.org

Heart Foundation www.heartfoundation.com.au

Health Canada www.hc-sc.gc.ca

Human Kinetics www.humankinetics.com

In Motion www.in-motion.ca

International Physical Activity and the Environment Network
www.ipenproject.org

The National Centre on Physical Activity and Disability www.ncpad.org

National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity www.ncppa.org

Physical Activity Info line www.vicfit.com.au

Physical Activity Unit, Canada www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/pau-uap/paguide/

Prevention Institute www.preventioninstitute.org

La Red de Actividad Fìsca de las Amèricas (RAFA)/The Physical Activity Network of the Americas (PANA) www.rafapana.org

Ramblers Association www.ramblers.org.uk

Royal Society for Health Promotion www.rsph.org

SPARC www.sparc.org.nz

Sport Waitiko www.sportwaikato.org.nz

University of South Carolina Prevention Research Centre
http://prevention.sph.sc.edu

World Health Organisation www.who.int
Move for health day www.who.int/hpr/physactiv/mfh.day.shtml
Global strategy on diet, physical activity and health
www.who.int/hpr/global.strategy.shtml

 

 

 
    
   
 
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