Since 2018, we have worked extensively with communities and partners to deliver meaningful engagement and interventions that disrupt and shift the balance of power so that communities have more of a say in their lives. We have moved from a narrow focus on physical activity to a wider wellbeing model that encompasses active citizenship to support and build community resilience and empowerment. We recognise that inequalities are highest where the need is the greatest, and that this is often the result of long-term wider systemic inequalities. 

The stats below show the key impact of our work across the country since TAWS was fully set up in 2018 and how we have developed from all our learning to where we are today.

• We have worked with over 170,000 community members, children and adults
• We have delivered 33,000 interventions
• 180 different partner organisations we’ve worked with across a variety of business areas and sectors, from local authority to health and social care, from youth services to places of worship
• Over 400,000 participations across our place-based interventions
• Over 60,000 individual Wellbeing Card sign-ups across our interventions
• 81% of all those we engage with are from IMD Q1&2 – in other words, our services have engaged proportionately more of our most deprived citizens than average
• Over 70% of those we have support are from global majority communities
• Provided over 120,000 hot meals for those who need it most tackling food poverty and working to reduce food waste
• Over 73,000 of our attendances have been from young people and children (under the age of 18)
• Over 1,500 unique volunteers providing over 30,000 hours of support
• Over 3,000 tonnes of food diverted from landfill to feed those who need it most
• Prevented 8,680 items and equipment from ending up in landfill
• With more than 100 different types of activities delivered over the years, including led rides, walks and runs, Bikeability courses, Zumba, walking football, Active Street closures, gardening, litter picking, family multi-sports, archery to name a few, we have worked with communities to ensure our offer is holistic and inclusive to all
• We’ve supported over 12,000 people to overcome the barriers to cycling, in partnership with Sport England and its Local Delivery Pilots, and organisations including the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the NHS, and Local Authorities.
• Over 1,300 unique participants in Essex
• Received 15,000 social prescribing referrals, lessening the burden on the NHS
• 8 amount of fearless leadership courses
• 130 amount of fearless leadership recipients
• Nearly a third of all participants who have engaged with our community food interventions are now physically active
• In the last year, nearly two thirds of all participants who attended our Share shacks became more physically active