Being Active in Pregnancy and Early Years

This survey is specifically aimed at pregnant women, dads-to-be, parents/carers of children aged under 5 or grandparents of children under 5 years old.

Physical activity:
· Benefits health
· Improves sleep
· Benefits emotional wellbeing
· Connects you with other people and your child
· Manages stress
· Improves quality of life

It reduces your chance of:
· Type 2 Diabetes
· Cardiovascular disease
· Depression etc
· Joint / back pain
· Cancers

It is for these reasons we want to help more parents/carers in pregnancy and with children aged under 5 to move more and be more physically active.
We are interested to know what would help you to be more active. Please take five minutes to complete the survey. Your answers could help develop and plan Calderdale projects / activities for the future.

Are you a.......?

Mum to be

Dad/partner to be

Parent/carer of child/ren aged under 5

Grandparent / carer of child/ren under 5

None of the above

What is your postcode? (first 4 digits only)

In the last 7 days on how many days have you been physically active for more than 30 minutes each day? (your heart is pumping faster, you’re a bit sweaty and you are breathing a bit faster)

Q4	Thinking about being active. How much do you agree or disagree with these statements?
Q4		Strongly agree	Agree	Disagree	Strongly disagree
	I find being active enjoyable and satisfying	I find being active enjoyable and satisfying Strongly agree	I find being active enjoyable and satisfying Agree	I find being active enjoyable and satisfying Disagree	I find being active enjoyable and satisfying Strongly disagree

	It’s important to me to be active regularly	It’s important to me to be active regularly Strongly agree	It’s important to me to be active regularly Agree	It’s important to me to be active regularly Disagree	It’s important to me to be active regularly Strongly disagree

	I feel guilty when I don’t do physical activity	I feel guilty when I don’t do physical activity Strongly agree	I feel guilty when I don’t do physical activity Agree	I feel guilty when I don’t do physical activity Disagree	I feel guilty when I don’t do physical activity Strongly disagree

	I’m active because I don’t want to disappoint other people	I’m active because I don’t want to disappoint other people Strongly agree	I’m active because I don’t want to disappoint other people Agree	I’m active because I don’t want to disappoint other people Disagree	I’m active because I don’t want to disappoint other people Strongly disagree

	I feel that doing physical activity is pointless	I feel that doing physical activity is pointless Strongly agree	I feel that doing physical activity is pointless Agree	I feel that doing physical activity is pointless Disagree	I feel that doing physical activity is pointless Strongly disagree

How could we help you be more physically active? (please select all that apply)

Walking groups /buggy walk opportunities

Sling library to borrow baby carriers

Activities for parent/carers and child/ren together

Crèche facility at classes/ activities

Buddy system to attend a class for the first time

	Other, please say:

Q6	When would be best for you to access opportunities to be more active?
Q6		Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
	Morning	Morning Monday	Morning Tuesday	Morning Wednesday	Morning Thursday	Morning Friday	Morning Saturday	Morning Sunday

	Afternoon	Afternoon Monday	Afternoon Tuesday	Afternoon Wednesday	Afternoon Thursday	Afternoon Friday	Afternoon Saturday	Afternoon Sunday

	Evening	Evening Monday	Evening Tuesday	Evening Wednesday	Evening Thursday	Evening Friday	Evening Saturday	Evening Sunday

What might stop you being more active? (please select all that apply)

Cost

Location

Childcare

Health

	Other, please say:

Would setting up/or leading a group activity be something you would be interested in doing with further support?

Yes

Q8a	If you said yes to Q8 and you would like to be contacted by the Active Calderdale Team about support for setting up an activity group please complete the following box with your email address.*

If you would like to find out more about being active in Calderdale visit our Active Calderdale website here.

* Privacy notice.
Calderdale Council of Town Hall, Crossley Street, Halifax, HX1 1UJ is registered with the information Commissioners Office (ICO) under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018. The Council takes its responsibilities under the Act very seriously. If you have supplied your contact details these will be kept completely separately from your survey responses, which will be recorded anonymously. Any personal contact information provided is purely for the purposes of being contacted by the Active Calderdale Team and to enable any future involvement in the project. Sharing your information with us constitutes explicit consent from you for us to process your data for this purpose.

You may withdraw this consent to us processing your personal data for this purpose at any time by contacting ActiveCalderdale@calderdale.gov.uk
You have the right to see what information is held about you, the right to have inaccurate information corrected, the right to erasure, the right to restrict processing, and the right to data portability, by contacting ActiveCalderdale@calderdale.gov.uk

You have the right to complain to the Data Protection Officer if you feel that your data has not been handled in accordance with the law. The Councils’ Data Protection Officer is Tracie Robinson and can be contacted at information_management@calderdale.gov.uk . You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office at www.ico.org.uk .
Your data will be kept for a maximum of five years from the date of providing your information, or until such time as the data is reviewed by us or removed at your request.

Thank you for taking part in our survey, please click on the submit button below to return your responses.