Change 4 Life

Primary Change4life Clubs

Change4life Sports Clubs aim to encourage less active children to take part in more physical activity and engage in school.

Through funding from the Department of Health, School Games Organisers – working with local partnerships – recruit and support primary schools to establish Change4Life ‘Inspired’ Sports Clubs and embed them at the heart of school life.

They seek to enable children to develop healthy hearts, happy hearts, social hearts and successful hearts.

Nationally, 'less-active' tends to refer to children who do not undertake the recommended daily minimum of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity.

The Department of Health

To date, the Youth Sport Trust has developed a network of over 9,500 school-based Change4Life Sports Clubs in England.

Through this programme we aim to deliver the principles and specific skills from a range of Olympic and Paralympic sports and place them in a fun, welcoming, vibrant and exciting activity club giving young people the confidence and competence to take part in lifelong physical activity.

Primary clubs develop fundamental movement skills and capture the essence of the sport without directly delivering sport-specific content, and are grouped under five multi-sport themes:

Adventure

Creative

Combat

Flight

Target.

What is a Change4life Club Deliverer?

The recruitment of the right deliverers of the club will be essential to the success of the club. The Club Deliverer needs to be able to inspire and motivate the young people who participate.

They will be responsible for setting up and running the club in their primary school, as well as recruiting and supporting the least active participants and positioning the club to maximise its impact on whole school priorities.

They could be:

Teachers

Teaching assistants

School administration staff

Parents

Further Education student

Young Ambassador