About Us
People with health conditions feel enabled and empowered to use physical activity to better manage their condition and experience positive health outcomes as a consequence.
To provide a national forum to collaborate, lead, influence and advocate for greater prominence and investment to be given to realising our ambition.
We work collaboratively to achieve change across the physical activity system.
- We provide a unified, and independent voice to lead and advocate for physical activity and health conditions in Scotland.
- We use insight and evidence, engaging with consultations to influence strategy and policy.
- We advocate for stronger leadership, and greater investment to ensure the right support, services, and opportunities are available to help make moving more a reality for people with health conditions.
- We create spaces for the workforce to embed physical activity into their practice.
- We raise the profile of physical activity by creating awareness about the benefits, barriers, and enablers of physical activity.
- We commission, endorse, translate, and disseminate research into practice so that our work is always evidence driven.
- We endorse the system-wide approach to physical activity in Scotland and are committed to contributing to the 8 action areas identified in Scotland's system-based physical activity framework.
As a collective, we Movement for Health, is dedicated to making positive change happen.
We are stronger together, to influence and enable change.
We’re dedicated to create a movement that is accessible to all.
We believe in being honest, to recognise the challenges people face and to understand that we can always do better to support them.
We aim to be a trusted voice among our partners, employees and the people we support. To be guided with a reliable and evidence-based approach to best meet the needs of people that we can support.
We pride ourselves on building lasting relationships and partnerships to promote the good practice already available.
Members & Partners
Movement for Health is a coalition of Scotland’s leading health charities, national agencies and academic institutions. We are united in our commitment to support the least active people living with long term health conditions to be more physically active.
