Record numbers in England playing sport, report finds

A Sport England report found that there are record numbers of people in England engaging in physical activity.

The grassroots sport funding body’s findings revealed that 67% of adults are following the chief medical officers’ recommended guidelines for weekly physical activity for the period November 2023 to November 2024.

In the last 12 months, there have also been 121, 000 decreases in the number of inactive adults.

The results are a “major milestone,” according to Sport England’s CEO Tim Hollingsworth, but “there is still a lot to do.”

According to Hollingsworth, “Black and Asian people are still less active than white people, while women are less active than men.”

“It also remains blatantly unfair that a person’s physical activity level and the size of their bank balance can affect someone so significantly,” said the statement.