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Active Lincolnshire Impact Report 2025-2026

Active Lincolnshire's Impact Report 2025-2026 covers April 2025 to March 2026, a year focused on supporting a resilient physical activity, sport and leisure sector, working in the places where people face the most barriers to being active, and convening partners through the Let's Move Lincolnshire countywide strategy. £123k of UK Shared Prosperity Fund funding for skills and workforce development funded 127 qualifications and engaged 118 unique learners across Boston, East Lindsey and South Holland. 20 clubs accessed safeguarding and welfare learning, and a legacy of 160 sport wheelchairs and 16 trailers has generated more than 12,000 participation opportunities. The charity also progressed its Sport England funded place-based work, with development phases in Boston, East Lindsey and South Holland and the Place Universal Offer with City of Lincoln, North Kesteven, West Lindsey and South Kesteven.

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About

Active Lincolnshire is the charity that works with partners, organisations and communities across Lincolnshire to create the conditions for more people to be active, more often, particularly those facing the greatest barriers. Its mission is to enable everyone to have the opportunity to be active every day. Sport England is its primary funder, and its work spans sector support, workforce skills, safeguarding and welfare, tackling inequalities and place-based partnerships.

Key Metrics

£123k of UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) funding invested in sector skills and workforce development
127 qualifications funded for the sport and physical activity workforce
87% of safeguarding and welfare learners reported increased confidence

Key Outcomes

  • 20 clubs accessed safeguarding and welfare learning, and 97% of learners felt better equipped to carry out their role
  • A legacy of 160 sport wheelchairs and 16 trailers has generated more than 12,000 participation opportunities for disabled people
  • The Active Schools Test and Learn study in Boston engaged over 500 children, families, schools and community stakeholders

Geography

East Midlands

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Delivered 11,474 sessions supporting 12,949 individuals across 40 programmes, generating 324,160 total engagements in 2025
Key Metric 2
Health & Wellbeing programmes delivered 270 sessions supporting 1,168 individuals, generating 7,315 engagements
Key Metric 3
Raised £50,714.49 net through the Foundation Fixture 2025 and £36,156.03 through the Fundraising Dinner (GBP)
Talking Tactics mentoring participant Jamie's confidence, aspirations and self-esteem grew significantly through one-to-one mentoring and mental health support
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
754 unique young people registered for Sport and Life Skills programmes (+114% vs 2022-23)
Key Metric 2
16 Locally Trusted Organisations delivered the programme, up from 9 in 2022-23
Key Metric 3
2,650 sessions held by delivery organisations in 2023-24
72% of young people reported 'getting on better at school or college' following engagement
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Close to 2,000 participants supported in 2024/25 across youth, prison and environmental programmes
Key Metric 2
826 students from 10 state schools took part, 67% female, with 70% of partner schools in the most deprived areas (IMD 1-4)
Key Metric 3
184 serving or released prisoners engaged through the 'Boats not Bars' reducing-reoffending programme
85% of young people improved their mental wellbeing and 83% felt more confident through the youth programme
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
21,212 people engaged with in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
17,708 people played some form of rugby through Foundation programmes
Key Metric 3
More than £9,000 raised through Foundation Day; 9,000+ given back to grassroots rugby clubs
88% of girls in the Girls Tackle Rugby programme reported feeling more confident, per independent research with Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport