Table 1.

Description of Go Golborne community activities involving local partners

Activity	Details	Uptake
Stakeholder meetings	10 quarterly stakeholder meetings to plan, reflect, evaluate and report work, and invite input from partners.	Over 100 partners attended from over 62 organisations.
Training for partners	Six tailored training sessions delivered on: healthy eating and nutrition; physical activity and play; nutritional guidelines and cooking on a budget; active health and delivering physical activity; sugar smart ‘train the trainer’; being a walk leader.	Between eight and 22 participants attended from a range of organisations. At least 75 partners took part overall.
Events	Seven community events aligned with the campaigns with a fun community focus.	An average of: 26 partners involved in event planning; 19 involved in delivery.
Campaign resources	Go Golborne created 46 different project resources and distributed 76,000 items to children and families.	All partners received the resources for information and distribution. Eight out of 10 partner survey respondents said that they distributed resources to their service users.
Campaign Grants	Grants of up to £2000 available to local partners to deliver community activities and/or for organisational development.	52 grants were distributed to local partners, including primary schools. Four out of 10 partner survey respondents had applied for and received a grant.
Work with primary schools	Delivery of healthy lifestyle messages (e.g. through facilitated assemblies and sharing of resources) and support to strengthen school practices and policies	All six local primary schools engaged; four schools received a total of seven grants. Five achieved Healthy Schools awards and two worked with MyTime Active who delivered activity workshops for students.
Strengthening the food environment	Local partners and businesses supported to develop healthy policies and practice through campaigns and partnership.	40 partners made pledges to be more Sugar Smart; 10 pledged to make organisational or policy changes. 77 businesses achieved a Healthier Catering Commitment award. Environmental Health piloted additional sugar-smart criteria with seven businesses as part of their Heathy Catering award scheme.
Extension projects (commissioned work)	Shop Healthy Golborne: Rice Marketing worked with local traders to audit, position and promote healthier products	Three local convenience stores participated. They introduced 77 new healthier lines and actively promoted them.
	Fit for Kids: Health Education Partnership developed a kitemark system for community organisations to develop best practice in promoting healthy lifestyles.	Three organisations piloted the programme. One achieved the award, others provided valuable feedback to improve the tool. Two more organisations were subsequently working towards the award.