Back to the Future (360G-Wellcome-208434_Z_17_Z)

As a leisure trust provider with strong links to underserved audiences, we can bring research into the hearts of communities in order to facilitate important conversations between those not accessing sciences, with those who have the power to direct future research to improve health. By hosting a series of 8 informal and relaxed workshops co-insided with existing activities provided through Life Leisure's exercise programmes, this project will encourage participant to go back to the future and discuss the evidence around physical activity and whether this was what partcipants thought would have happened, if they were to go back to their pre-exercised self. With limited use of science engagement within our programmes, this project will create a colloboration between both leisure and academia, which can pave the way for new models of working and cab be repliacted across both sectors.. In addition, by discussing with participants about their pre-exercise self, we hope to learn more about their attitudes and beliefs to exercise which will form a basis for future service improvements. Finally, we want to see whether engaging people with health related science can lead to greater upatke of participants to our services which can lead to improvements in their health.