Active Places Power is an interactive mapping and reporting tool provided by Sport England for those delivering community sport.

The web tool facilitates the strategic planning of sport provision through advanced analytical tools that reference the most authoritative sport facility and club database within the country.

Find out how, including what’s new in the redeveloped website (launched November 2012), through a short tour.

Website design and functionality

• Redesigned interface with more intuitive layout and integrated help
• Improved interactive mapping with Ordnance Survey’s MasterMap
• Customizable Area Profile "dashboard" for a quick overview of data for your area of interest
• Dynamic drive and walking catchment area analysis
• Enhanced export capabilities to take your analytical outputs offline in different formats

Data – the important stuff!

• 30,000 sites, at which 64,000 facilities are located.  This equates to 80 percent of locations where formal sport takes place
• 14 different facility types now including Squash, Outdoor Tennis, Studios as well as enhanced information on sports halls and grass pitches
• New Club data (beta only), linked to sites showing where they train and where they play home games
• Weekly facility data updates allowing for changes to be made and analysed more quickly
• Overlay of Sport England’s Active People and Market segmentation in addition to Census 2011 data
• Improved data download functionality

Local Authorities

Benefits include:

• Borough Profile reports to quickly provide an "at a glance" view of sport provision area, with integrated tables, maps and charts
• Audit existing facility provision as part of sports facility assessments and strategies;
• Benchmark existing facility provision against geographic, hierarchic and socio-economic authorities;
• Create catchments of existing or proposed sports facilities and determine accessibility or profile socio, economic and demographic characteristics or the local population.

National Governing Bodies for Sport

Benefits include:

• Analyse which clubs are using which facilities
• Use tools and reports to geographically analyse data to support Whole Sport Plan process and guide investment decisions
• Access for clubs to allow them to analyse competing facilities, travel times and develop the evidence base for funding applications

Other Organisations

In addition to Local Authorities and NBGs, APP is designed for any organisation responsible for sport provision or those wanting to perform research in this sector.

Registration applications are welcomed from:

• County Sport Partnerships, Government Departments and Lottery Distributors
• Private sector and commercial organisations including Planning and Leisure consultancies
• Individual clubs, Trusts and academic institutions

How to register

The site is password protected and users will be assigned different rights according to their needs and level of use.

• In addition anyone can register for access online through a two step process
• Depending upon your organisation and your functionality requirements, access will be granted automatically
• Note - users registered prior to November 2012 will need to re-register