Strong need to foster essential collaboration between health and leisure sectors

Over 100 attendees at ‘Active Wellbeing in Communities’ were confronted with the stark health and physical activity issues in this part of the UK, along with inventive ways that challenges like these are being tackled both here and overseas. The two-day event at the Principality Stadium in the heart of the Welsh capital looked at how sports and leisure facilities can better serve communities. It was built around how a unique piece of Welsh legislation is influencing health and leisure, and how learnings from this can be applied in other countries.

Report by Stephen Bromberg, Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, UK

Shaun Dawson, Chief Executive of Lee Valley Regional Park Authority in London, opened the Cardiff event saying, “Our objective is to enable more active and healthy communities. This event has a special Welsh perspective and a strong international flavour.”

This was expanded on by Moderator Joanne Martin of My Leisure Consultants who explained, “This seminar is special. It’s the first time IAKS UK & Ireland has hosted in Wales. Wales is the only nation to embed in law the need to safeguard future generations through the Future Generations Act.”

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