Dulverton Town Council are working with Dulverton Town Football Club to hold a series of walking football taster sessions open to all ages and abilities in the local area. The grant will help provide the basic resources to begin delivering the launch and first season of the initiative.
Walking football is variation of the traditional game of football. It is played at a slower pace, with an emphasis on walking rather than running. It was developed to provide an alternative for people who struggle or may not be able to play traditional football due to a variety of reasons, including age, injury or other physical limitations. This project hopes to increase participation in sporting activities as well as providing opportunities for people to be outdoors, develop friendships and improve fitness and wellbeing.
The Levels and Moors LCN identified social isolation and loneliness as prevalent within the LCN due to the low population density and the distance between people and resources that help. To alleviate this, this scooping project involved contacting all the parishes in the LCN to produce a comprehensive list of all activities, together with regularity and contacts on how people can get involved.
As the project progressed, it became known as ‘People, Places and Things’. It is free to use and the hope is that it will at some point become a website.
Having recently refurbished the play area, the tennis courts and the sports pavilion at the Recreation Field in Long Sutton, Long Sutton Parish Council identified a need to include alternative recreational activities for other ages and abilities on their well-used community facility.
This project involves installing a boules court for competitive and informal play as well as an outdoor table tennis table. A group of local residents are keen to form a boules club and volunteer help with the installation. Boules is an all ages and all ability sport which will be accessible from the car park. Similarly, table tennis is enjoyed by children and adults and has low barriers of entry to enjoy the sport. This project aims to create an intergenerational activity space for all members of the community.
Watchet Town Council are delivering a multi-strand, community-centred programme to improve physical health, mental wellbeing, and social cohesion through increased use of underutilised sports and recreational facilities. The initiative will support diverse age groups and backgrounds through inclusive, structured activities that tackle inactivity, social isolation, and youth anti-social behaviour.
The hub of this programme is the Watchet Memorial Ground, a large green space with adjacent amenities including a children’s play area, outdoor gym, tennis court, multi-use games area (MUGA), community garden, cricket nets, football club, pavilion, and the local community centre/youth club. Despite this range of assets, many remain underused and disconnected from broader community life. This programme aims to unlock their full social and health potential.
This project has 4 strands: