Sport England’s Active People Survey 3 shows we are now 115,000 closer to our legacy goal of getting one million people playing more sport by 2012/13. The encouraging news comes despite a fall in the amount of money people are spending on sport and recreation during these challenging economic times. (193,000 people are interviewed each year.)

Key findings from the research include:

1. The number of adults doing athletics at least once a week is up by 127,600.
2. 635,000 more people are playing sport regularly than in 2005
3. The number of adults in England who play sport at least three times a week has reached 6.93 million, continuing the positive trend of the past four years
4. The number of men playing sport three times a week has risen by 176,000 to 4.203 million
5. Cycling and athletics have delivered a combined increase of over 240,000 weekly participants.

SLM  have launched  the 30 minute daily activity challenge to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle.

When you register you can download FREE results cards, take the activity quiz, get FREE nutrional advice from TV expert Nigel Denby, plus lots of other great benefits.

Just visit www.30min-challenge.com/ for more details.