Welcome to Active Tamworth, Tamworth Borough Council’s plan to help people live fitter, healthier lifestyles. 

It is important that everybody looks after their health and wellbeing. Physical activity has an important role in having an active lifestyle. It provides a good foundation for a healthy lifestyle and can reduce the risk of certain cancers, cardiovascular disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. 

There are also many more benefits of physical activity than just positively impacting your health and wellbeing. Walking and cycling are environmentally friendly and reduce traffic, congestion and pollution. The social benefits, joining a group or sports club are also important in developing strong communities, cohesive and inclusive relationships.

The aims of Active Tamworth:

• Increase the number of physical activity opportunities with more people regularly taking part in some form of physical activity.  

• Inform where future investments should be made.

• Develop intervention programmes to increase physical activity levels within key target groups to address health inequalities.

• Help children and young people with moving from education to community sport.

• Allow easy access to information about being active and the benefits for all residents.