“I don’t want to go walking, it’s boring”
November 7, 2020 4:03 pm Leave your thoughtsMy household has sampled several forms of separation over the past eight months: isolation, lockdown, quarantine. Much of it has…
Author Archives for Andrea Kemp
Resilience through physical activity
April 5, 2020 9:07 pm Leave your thoughtsShortly after social distancing measures were announced, sports fixtures, leagues and competitions up and down the country were cancelled, postponed…
Community Organising at Pace
March 24, 2020 5:28 pm Leave your thoughts‘Potatoes’ was the subject header of an email several of us received early this morning. “Guys, I’ve just been gifted…
Derbyshire GP Practices get the Jogging Bug
February 25, 2020 8:25 pm Leave your thoughtsKriss Owen is a GP at Littlewick Medical Centre. She’s passionate about jogging as a way of enabling her patients…
People Power
December 19, 2019 7:34 pm Leave your thoughtsSole Mates Jogging Group Supports the Jigsaw Christmas Food Bank Mince pies, mulled cider and a warm welcome awaited over…
Building on enthusiasm for #runwalktalk
July 29, 2019 9:17 am Leave your thoughtsIn contrast to the first #runwalktalk event held in February this year we gathered on a warm, sunny morning in…
Revealing value – Active4Life
April 4, 2019 4:08 pm Leave your thoughtsActive4Life is a pioneering initiative which takes a asset-based approach to building active communities; from the inside-out. Over 2 years we…
Creating conditions for collaborative learning
March 28, 2019 4:03 pm Leave your thoughtsHave you ever come away from a learning event with a warm glow and a sense of ‘this is just…
ABCD – Building on what’s strong
January 23, 2019 3:11 pm Leave your thoughtsMovement building is all about getting people to act on their thing and organising collective effort for a purpose (Marshall…
Active4Life quarterly review: 1/8
December 18, 2018 10:16 pm Leave your thoughtsWe recently embarked on a two-year initiative to build active communities in three places across Derbyshire. To test the theories…
Prevention is better than cure – A fresh approach to activity
November 27, 2018 10:10 am Leave your thoughtsPeople are being encouraged to take more responsibility for managing their own health, as part of the government’s NHS strategy…
Reflective practice for systems change
November 19, 2018 11:50 am Leave your thoughtsOver the past couple of months myself and the rest of the team at Shift, along with our friends from…
Meet the team: Andrea Kemp
July 23, 2018 11:29 am Leave your thoughtsMy role as CEO involves leading and directing the work of the organisation to fulfil our ambitions, our aims and our purpose in the spirit and culture of our values. I consider myself to be an ‘Enabler’, as such a person that makes things possible.
An introduction to Shift
July 20, 2018 5:01 pm Leave your thoughtsWhat’s Shift all about you might be wondering? Well, make yourself comfortable and let us paint a picture of our…
Building active communities – Crich fitness fortnight
July 20, 2018 10:31 am Leave your thoughtsI firmly believe that community building is best done by the community; those people with the passion, the connections, the…