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Principles met

  • Co-production

    We will develop systems that enable citizens to be equal partners in designing and commissioning public services and in determining the use of public resources.

  • Innovation

    We will embrace innovation in how we work with local communities to drive positive change.

  • Learning

    We will capture and ‘expand’ the experience and learning from individual projects and approaches in order to encourage broader application of co-operative principles within individual member Councils and across the Network.

  • Maximising social value

    We will support the development of a framework and criteria for social value, giving substance to the concept and supporting Councils with the tools to ensure better local social and economic outcomes.

  • New models of meeting priority needs

    In exploring new ways of meeting the priority needs of our communities we will encourage models, such as co-operatives and mutuals, which give greater influence and voice to staff and users. in designing and commissioning public services and in determining the use of public resources.

  • Walking the talk

    As a membership organisation, we will make this statement of our principles operational by: • Co-operation among members: Our members work together to help each other implement our values, sharing experiences and learning. • Openness of membership: Full, Associate and Affiliate Membership is open to any qualifying Council, organisation or individual who shares our values and is committed to putting them into action. • Co-production of the Network’s work: Members help shape the Network’s work programme and the content of events and written products. • Action-focused: The network is a vehicle for helping councils translate co-operative values and principles into policy and practice. •Membership-based: The network is majority funded by modest membership subscriptions from its member Councils, Associates and Affiliates. •Non-party-political: Members share the belief that working co-operatively within and across communities holds the key to tackling today’s challenges.

They may be two words with just one different letter between them – `move` and `more` – but when put together they are very powerful when it comes to improving physical and mental wellbeing.

Move More High Peak is a ten-year strategy launched by High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire in 2023 setting out why moving is important, what needs to be done to enable people to get involved, and how the Council and its partners will go about it.

The benefits of moving more for our physical and mental health are well known. The Council and its partners have been busy working with individuals, communities and organisations across High Peak to boost their health and wellbeing by building movement into their daily lives and joining what has been called the `Movement for Movement`.

Local authorities providing leisure services will know that being active for more than 150 minutes a week is enough to benefit your health.

But in High Peak we discovered that 21% of people do less than 30 minutes physical activity per week and 14% do none at all – that was over 1 in 10 of our residents: 10,000 people who don’t do any physical activity out of a borough population of about 100,000.

A strategy was therefore developed in partnership, with a collaborative approach taken. Together, the aim was for everyone across the High Peak to move more every day and to provide greater support to those that need it most.

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