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Rotherham

Rotherham is a metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire built on the mining and steel industries, and milling grain. The town of Rotherham is on the River Rother and surrounded by settlements in Maltby, Swinton and Wath-on-Dearne. 

 In 2025, Rotherham will become the world's first Children's Capital of Culture.

Moving RotherhamDistrict data

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The Moving Rotherham place partnership is made up of organisations working across the borough with an interest in helping local people to be more physically active.

The partnership has developed a local strategic plan, which sets out three priority areas:

ACTIVE CHAMPIONS: We want to develop skills and knowledge in relation to physical activity across all organisations and services, so that conversations with local people about being active happen as often as possible. 

ACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS: We want to help create environments than enable physical activity, whether this is outdoors in green spaces, town centres and local streets, or within schools, colleges and workplaces. 

ACTIVE COMMUNITIES: We want to create opportunities for people whatever their age, background or ability and use physical activity as a way for people to connect, share experiences and contribute to a thriving borough. 

Sport England Investment as part of place expansion work will allow Rotherham to look again at how it operates and works towards achieving outcomes.

How we support Rotherham

Nick is our lead in developing, fostering and managing relationships in Rotherham, with additional support from the wider YSF team. This nurturing of relationships is designed to support people being more active, particularly people living with the greatest challenges who will benefit most. 

Norsheen Akhtar
Development Manager for Rotherham
07794 247873
norsheen.akhtar@yorkshiresport.org

Nick Wilson

Nick Wilson
Development Manager for Rotherham 
07794 247873
nick.wilson@yorkshiresport.org

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