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Two schools from Rotherham were celebrating last week after winning the South Yorkshire School Games rugby finals, organised by Yorkshire Sport Foundation and the South…
Sports stars from across Bradford will be honoured at a major awards ceremony next spring – and organisers want people’s nominations. The sixth Annual Active Bradford…
Like many others, we’ve been dismayed to see the story of Azeem Rafiq’s experience at Yorkshire County Cricket Club unfolding over the last year. The…
Tahir Akram is part of our local support team, covering Bradford. He’s also the lead for our climate group. In this blog, he discusses our…
West Yorkshire Active School Award winners, New Road Primary, feature on the latest episode of The YSF Podcast. Headteacher Sharon Harwood and sports coach Emily…
A group of leading sport, recreation and physical activity sector bodies has cautiously welcomed the 2021 Autumn Budget and Spending Review announced by the Chancellor….
Following a remarkable year of ingenuity and dedication from coaches across the UK, during one of the most challenging periods for sport and physical activity…
As part of their Great Coaching Comeback campaign, UK Coaching in partnership with CIMSPA and EMDUK, has launched a new initiative ReTrain to ReTain, funded by…
More children and young people are set to enjoy a huge range of activities and healthy meals during the Christmas holidays in Calderdale, after more…
Our Events and Programmes Manager, Emma Binnersley, blogs about the This Girl Can week that has been taking place in West Yorkshire this week, and…
To coincide with International Day of the Girl, The FA has today launched a new campaign – Let Girls Play – which supports their strategic…
Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, paid tribute to the role of grassroots sport at the Yorkshire Homecoming event for our Olympic and Paralympic athletes on Sunday….
A wide-ranging programme of sporting activities for young people and adults with disabilities has now returned to Calderdale sports centres, with further funding agreed to…
UEFA and The FA have announced that fans can now apply for the chance to become one of thousands of volunteers supporting the UEFA Women’s…
The UK’s sports councils have today published new guidance for transgender inclusion in domestic sport. The Sports Councils’ Equality Group (SCEG), made up of representatives…
To coincide with COP26, the United National Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, we are pleased to announce details of three webinars dedicated to the topic of…
Yorkshire’s Olympic and Paralympic heroes will be given a homecoming to remember with a major event at the Leeds first direct arena on October 10….
The roads around Shawlands, Holy Rood and Joseph Locke Primary Schools have been closed as part of Barnsley Council’s School Streets project, encouraging families to…
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…
