At Yorkshire Sport Foundation we include everyone, as we believe sport and physical activity is for everyone.
Find out about the nine District Activity Partnerships in our region and how we support their work.
Our role as a Lottery-funded charity, plus the partners and networks we work with in Yorkshire.
Following the launch of the Digital Marketing Hub this morning, Yorkshire Sport Foundation Media Manager, Andy Morgan, blogs on the role it can play in…
Primary schools throughout South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire are being encouraged to get the school year off to an active start with a weekly running…
Work undertaken by Leeds City Council to ensure that residents were still able to participate in different forms of physical activity despite the many challenges…
Yorkshire Sport Foundation is making up to £10,000 available to provide more qualified sports coaches in South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. Individuals who are part…
Clarion Futures, the charitable foundation of Clarion Housing Group, is partnering with local organisations to deliver a three-year youth sports project in the Tong ward…
West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership (WY&H HCP) and Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Yorkshire Sport…
England Squash has given their female-only programme, Squash Girls Can a new look ahead of Women’s Squash Week (19-26 September) to inspire more women to…
A Sport and Recreation Alliance report shines a light on the social value of movement and dance to the UK. Moving your body to music…
CIMSPA, Sport England and the Digital Marketing Institute will launch a free Digital Marketing Hub for the sport and physical activity sector on 14 September. The Digital…
As we all emerge from the Coronavirus pandemic, the BBC’s local radio stations across England are coming together to help children and families. ‘Kit Out…
A Leeds Sports Club Equipment Grant is now open to Leeds Sports Clubs. Clubs can apply for up to £300 of sports equipment (no longer including PPI)…
The new name of a recently completed community play area in Bradford will be officially unveiled at an event this week. A sign welcoming people…
Today the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership and West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit launched their anti-racism movement #WYHRootOutRacism. It was shaped by…
Hosted by UK Coaching, the highly regarded awards showcase the diverse work of coaches from all walks of life, helping people improve their well-being and…
Bradford based community organisation ‘Sport Campaign Against Racism’ (SCAR), founded by Delroy Dacres (manager of Campion Football club for more than two decades) and Shazad…
To round off our week looking at walking sport, the latest episode of The YSF Podcast speaks to the people behind the award winning walking…
There are more than 15 million people in England living with a long-term health condition, and those people are twice as likely to be inactive…
A new multi-million pound state-of-the-art swimming pool and leisure centre for Halifax has moved a step closer to reality after the Council submitted the planning…
Family. Friends. Community. If you asked someone not involved in a team sport for three words to describe what they thought team sport was all…
Active Dearne Community Champion, Sally Corns, has worked alongside Wath RUFC to start a new walking rugby session in the town. Here she tells us…
Tim Howells, Health and Wellbeing Support Manager for Public Health England (Yorkshire and the Humber) kicks off our week looking at the impact of walking sport,…
Totally Runable co-founder, Natalie Jackson, will run 100 miles across Yorkshire next week to raise awareness of the gender sport gap in primary schools, and raise…
Nobody in the country escaped a break to their normal routine when the Covid-19 pandemic took hold during the spring of 2020. David Stevenson’s normal…
A few weeks ago, we announced the nine winners of our Active School Awards 2021. The Active School Awards recognised how schools across South Yorkshire…
A few weeks ago, we announced the nine winners of our Active School Awards 2021. The Active School Awards recognised how schools across South Yorkshire…
Community groups and organisations across South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire are being invited to use the power of sport to bring people together, by applying…
The role of Stocksbridge Leisure Centre in its community could have been very different during lockdown had it not been for the tackling inequalities funding…
Last week, we held the first Connect and Share virtual get together, with a focus on Active Workplaces. James Brown, Director of Local Support and…
The refreshed Move More physical activity for Sheffield is the topic for discussion on the latest episode of The YSF Podcast. We were joined by…
Pupils at a school in Leeds have been celebrating the culmination of a five-week project to encourage them to be more physically active. The ‘Skip…
The winners of our Active School Awards 2021 have been announced. Almost 50 schools were nominated for the awards, sharing with us the ways in…
Sheffield City Council Leader Cllr Terry Fox and Deputy Leader Cllr Julie Grocutt made their first visit to the Olympic Legacy Park last week to…
Within every community, there are people, groups and organisations working to make it a better place. The passion and selflessness of these people on their…
The Association for Physical Education (afPE) has today launched a report from its Education Taskforce which issues a clear call to government to put physical…
Bradford-based 2tshirtgang is the feature of the latest episode of The YSF Podcast. The functional fitness, health and well-being organisation are one of those to…
Sport England has collaborated with CIMSPA to produce a Digital Marketing Hub that aims to fill a gap in the digital skills of the sport…
The School Games sports day is returning for 2021, and it’s inspired by some of the fantastic sporting action coming our way this summer. With…
Welcome to Yorkshire and Yorkshire Cancer Research launched the Tour de Walkshire on 1st May with a month-long £50,000 fundraising target… with time to spare…
The Chief Executive of the Active Partnerships Network, Lee Mason, has decided to leave the national representative body at the end of June after 10…
At the beginning of July, we’ll be piloting a new ‘YSF Connect and Share’ session. It’ll be an informal get together of people involved in…
People across Leeds are being asked to make one small change to a weekly journey by leaving the car at home and choosing to walk,…
In the week that marked a year since the death of George Floyd, our Chief Executive, Nigel Harrison, has reflected on the organisation’s commitment to…
The Active in Barnsley partnership, of which we are a member, has launched a brand-new website, where people in Barnsley can find information about being active, useful links for moving…
Tackling inequalities has always been at the heart of the work of Active Partnerships. But when the shocking death of George Floyd caught on video…
Calderdale residents are being asked to share their views on being active and the opportunities available to take part in physical activity in their local…
The Ann Craft Trust is launching a campaign for sport & activity organisations to create safer cultures, asking organisations to commit to reviewing and improving their…
The Rugby League World Cup team have put together a great opportunity for schools to get involved in a competition that showcases their town or…
The South Yorkshire School Games team recognises the impact Covid-19 has had on young girls in the county. As a result, we are excited to…
Supporting the sport and physical activity sector to recover and rebuild are among key priorities for the next 12 months. The one-year action plan will help…
Just over 7 in 10 disabled people (72%) agree that the coronavirus pandemic has made sport and physical activity less fair for disabled people. This…
Learn to be quick, be smart and restart a heart Free life-saving digital learning toolkit to help people know what to do in the event…
The Mind Sport and Activity Network for Yorkshire and Humber is working to set up a network of mental health champions across the region. They…
Venues, especially community venues can still lack a bit of confidence to re-open, so its worth sharing EMD UK’s guidance for instructors and venues with…
A new pioneering approach looks to help cancer patients prepare for and respond to treatment by offering them a combination of exercise, nutrition and psychological…
The official Team GB kit for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been announced. Uniting hundreds of athletes from dozens of sports, the adidas kit…
Mind have launching a new Mental Health and Physical Activity Tooklkit! The Toolkit, consisting of 10 guides, aims to help sport, physical activity and mental…
The Department for Education invested £1.6m into the Active Partnership Network in 2019-2020 as a test and learn project to better understand the barriers and…
The impact of the Covid pandemic on activity levels in South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire has been highlighted in the latest Active Lives figures, released…
Yorkshire Sport Foundation is joining leading football organisations, including The FA and Kick It Out, in a social media boycott this weekend. We will not…
The West Yorkshire School Games is excited to have partnered with Skipping School to bring a new virtual skipping programme to schools across the county….
