Working with existing community assets and empowering them to develop strategies to build sustainable activities to help reduce health inequalities was one of the pieces of work we carried out in 2023 with a local Asian Sports group.

Having identified that women from Indian ethnicity had higher prevalence of type 2 diabetics we reached out to active members in the community, who where keen to promote sports. With our support and the aid of a small pot of funding they have been able to organise regular training sessions which ensured increased uptake.

The impact of this initiative has led to an increase in communication, improved mental health, better quality of life and motivation for the ladies to continue training.

100% of the ladies who participated in the training mentioned that their confidence levels have improved. The group that started with 10 ladies continues to grow and the last time we counted the groups had more than

doubled in size.