SPORTING AND CULTURAL OBJECTIVES
Our Sporting and Cultural projects aim to identify, qualify and implement good practices in cross-cutting community initiatives to promote health-enhancing physical activity in socio-economically disadvantaged areas.
In this way, the project will contribute to reduce the numerous risk factors of physical inactivity outlined above.
The sporting objectives of Community Action Team- CAT Scotland are:
1. To benefit socially disadvantaged groups through good practice health-enhancing physical activity initiatives that match their particular needs and context;
2. To promote good practice health-enhancing physical activity initiatives targeting socially disadvantaged groups at every level;
3. To mobilize cross-cutting partnerships and networks on physical and cultural activities which reach out to socially marginalized groups.
ACTIVITIES
Good practice handbook and guidelines
The collection of good practices and formulation of guidelines on how best to target socioeconomically disadvantaged groups will serve as a source of inspiration and learning both for organizations as well as individuals engaged in the field of physical and cultural activities, sport for all and health enhancement. We will achieve this by networking with other local and national organisations.
Cat Scotland aims to collect and qualify good practices that promote heath-enhancing physical and cultural activities among socially disadvantaged groups. In this effort, Cat Scotland will focus on experiences that have been successful in targeting the following groups living in disadvantaged areas with socioeconomic challenges:
• youth
• ethnic minorities and immigrants
• girls and women
• seniors
Physical activity has proven itself to be one of the single most important determinants for a healthy life. Leading authorities such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have extensively documented the positive effects of physical activity on health and quality of life. However, it has been equally well documented that inequalities in health related to physical activity are also strongly linked to socioeconomic factors such as income, education, employment and ethnicity. People who are poorer, less educated, unemployed or belonging to specific ethnic groups tend to engage less in physical activity and are less healthy.
Our hope is to use the combination of effective sporting and cultural activities / projects to bring different communities together and improve collaboration / cohesion within our neighbourhoods.
