Active Southend Summary Report 2025

Published On: 18/12/20251.1 min read

Funded by Find Your Active Southend, the Active Southend Fund was administered by the Community Investment Board and SAVS. The Board have received £20,000 of funding to enable Southend residents to become more physically active and to improve their health and wellbeing.

29 applications were received, and a total of 12 organisations were awarded to deliver projects in Southend and below is a summary from each of the projects including participant feedback and photos. Please refer to the Appendix section for a full funding overview.

Funding awards were paid to winning organizations in August 2025 with the average award being £1,666.67.

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Organisation Funding Project overview Date Locality No. of People Benefitted
Lift & Empower £1,920.00 Paths to Progress 13/06/2025 City Wide 12
Active Life £1,905.00 Active Life Festival 2025! 13/06/2025 City Wide 82
Age Concern Southend £1,043.82 Boccia 13/06/2025 Milton 15
Yoga4All £1,440.00 Yoga4cancer and Yoga in the Park 13/06/2025 Prittlewell 25
Little Heroes £1,500.00 Big and Little Heroes get active! 13/06/2025 St Lukes 141
Welcome to the UK £1,440.00 Welcome to the UK Health & Fitness Programme 13/06/2025 Victoria 46
STRM £2,000.00 Indoor bouldering for SEND children 13/06/2025 City Wide 4
Wellbeing at Garon Park £2,000.00 Wellbeing Community Activity Programme 13/06/2025 St Lukes 297
Southend Insight £751.18 Seated exercise for visually impaired people 13/06/2025 Milton 44
HARP £2,000.00 Boxing For Recovery 13/06/2025 Kursaal 15
Brazilarte Circle CIC £2,000.00 Chats on Mats 13/06/2025 Milton 24
St Vincent Centre Southend £2,000.00 SVP Southend Move Together 13/06/2025 Chalkwell 42
£20,000.00 747