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Get active in the South West

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Get active locally. Find out about the clubs, teams and sports facilities nearest to you

Inclusive Fitness Initiative
Sustrans Active Travel
Walk Your Way to Health

Read about the framework and vision for Volunteering in the Region through to 2012. See how Sport England will contribute alongside our partners to make an impact to the volunteer workforce – creating more high quality volunteering opportunities and sustraining participation in sport at the local level. Download Volunteering Framework Bulletin.

Beat the bulge!
Combat the bulge by logging on to activeplaces.com, to find out about sports and fitness facilities in their area. The website has details of 1973 gyms and sports venues which are all located in the South West. Sport England Regional Director for the South West, Jim Clarke, said "Sport England has developed activeplaces.com to make it easier for people to get active. The most common New Year's resolution is to become fitter and healthier and our website will help them to do just that by providing information on where to go to get active."

Nominations invited for BBC Sports Unsung Hero 2008
Part of this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year programme provides an opportunity to recognise the dedicated, and often voluntary, work of people who give so much of their time, effort and talent to encourage others to excel in grassroots sport. This is exactly the type of work Sport England will be focusing on under our new strategy. This award salutes the work of those people. The fifteen local winners chosen by 15 BBC Nations and Regions will join a star-studded guest list at the Sports Personality of the Year awards ceremony at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on 14 December. Bursaries of up to £2,500, provided by award supporters Robinsons, are also available to winners of each regional award to help them with their work in sport and the community. So if you know someone in your area who goes an extra mile to change the lives of others through sport and deserves recognition, the BBC want to hear from you. Closing date for nominations Friday 31 October 2008. Read more.

ParalympicsGB Talent Transfer
The ParalympicsGB Talent Transfer Programme is a centrally coordinated recruitment process giving athletes who have either retired or are coming to the end of their career or recognise that they are not going to fulfil their performance ambitions in their current sport, an opportunity to try something new. With only four years to go to London 2012, the transferable skills honed in the current sport - technical, tactical, physical, and mental - could lay the foundations for a successful transfer into an alternative sport. Are you ready for a fresh challenge? If so click here.

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