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We want it to be easy and enjoyable for everyone in Yorkshire to be active. We know moving more, being active or taking part in sport…

A new study into how teenage girls use parks and green spaces for recreation has found twice as many girls as boys feel unsafe exercising…

A coalition of leading organisations across sport, recreation and physical activity has today come together for the first time to call for radical reform to…

Birkby Infant and Nursery School have become the latest school to be recognised as a Centre of Excellence for physical activity by Yorkshire Sport Foundation….

Yorkshire Sport Foundation are proud to share that we have been recognised as a ‘Very Good’ company to work for by ‘Best Companies’. ‘Best Companies’…

Burton Road Primary School has been awarded status as a Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity, by Yorkshire Sport Foundation (YSF). It has achieved the…

The Academy at St. James in Bradford is the first school to be awarded status as a Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity by Yorkshire…

As we begin the final term of the 2021/22 academic year, we’re excited to be on the verge of announcing the first primary schools to…

An exciting new programme from Sport England, funded by the National Lottery, and delivered by the Football Foundation will support people in Sheffield to get…

Following more than 12 months of conversation with people representing partner organisations, and staff, we are pleased to share our new strategy for 2022 and…

Last week, Active Partnerships from across the country came together to discuss how we can play our part in responding to the horrific crisis unfolding…

Yorkshire Sport Foundation (YSF) is among the first group of over 40 organisations working in partnership with Sport England to receive funding from its new…

Primary schools across West Yorkshire are invited to ‘Skip into Summer’ with an initiative designed to provide more ways for children to be active. Taking…

Sport students at Barnsley College and Wakefield College will be provided with the opportunity to gain additional skills and knowledge alongside their course to enhance…

The House of Lords ‘National Plan for Sport and Recreation Committee’ has released its report today (Friday 10 December). The Select Committee was appointed in…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 Active School Awards 2021 will celebrate the South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire schools who have kept children active during a year like no other….

Social enterprise company, Totally Runable Ltd, are putting inspiring posters featuring real life female athletes in front of over 355,000 school pupils from as part…

Policy Yorkshire, the think tank for the Yorkshire and Humber region, is today launching a call for evidence on how to support people to become…

If podcasts are your thing, you may have listened to the most recent episode of The YSF Podcast released this week, where we were joined…

A walking football session in Swinton created as part of the Active Dearne project, has been named the Sheffield and Hallamshire County FA Grassroots Project…

Sheffield United Community Foundation, official charity of Sheffield United FC, are launching their new Empower LGBT+ project in partnership with Yorkshire Sport Foundation to tackle…

The London Marathon Charitable Trust (The Trust) has awarded a £600,000 grant to a project that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of young…

The Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM) has started a new training alliance with national sports charity ‘StreetGames’ and Yorkshire Sport Foundation (YSF) with…

It’s cold. It’s probably wet. You don’t know if you’re going to have eleven players to make up a full team, and your boots are…

A mental health charity in the Dearne Valley is using sport and activity as one of its primary ways to support the mental wellbeing of…

In these uncertain times, we’ve all had to adapt the way we work. The one thing that hasn’t changed is that working together helps us…

The South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire winners in the Yorkshire Primary PE Awards 2020 have been announced. The annual awards celebrate schools who can demonstrate…

Organisations in Sheffield and Rotherham will be part of a national project investigating how physical activity and sport can reduce over-representation of minority and ethnic…

Yorkshire Sport Foundation (YSF) has distributed £140,000 of National Lottery funding from Sport England’s Tackling Inequalities Fund, to organisations in South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire….

More than 60 people with a role in supporting communities in South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to be more active came together in Leeds last…

More than 400 people took part in the second Airedale Community Activity Day at the Hut Leisure and Community Centre, recently. Adults and children from…

Yorkshire Sport Foundation has welcomed Darren Huart to the team as The Daily Mile™ Local Coordinator for South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. Darren joins us…

Kathryn Mudge, who leads on some of our place-based work across South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, blogs about the recently published ‘Sport For All’ research…

Children’s activity levels are on the rise, according to Sport England’s second annual Active Lives Children and Young People Survey. The report, covering the academic…

Yorkshire Sport Foundation (YSF) is pleased to announce Dan Wilson as the Active Partnership’s new Director of Development. Dan joins the organisation’s senior management team…

Sahal Barre admits that if you’d met him a few years ago, he wasn’t someone you’d want to be friends with. The teenager from the…

A group of secondary schools and colleges from across South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire have raised more than £11,000 for Cancer Research UK after taking…

A fundraiser to help provide activities for youngsters in Burngreave throughout the summer holidays has raised over £800. Saturday’s #SportOverStreets event was organised by community…

Around 1,000 schoolchildren from across South Yorkshire took part in the annual South Yorkshire School Games summer festival, last Friday (5 July). Taking place across…

Leading international academics, primary school leaders and governors and public health professionals joined forces this week to create a new framework for high-quality physical activity,…

Two Yorkshire charities have scored a share of £30,000 following a high-profile fundraising event celebrating past, present and future sporting heroes. Yorkshire Sport Foundation and…

Figures from the latest Active Lives Adult survey released today (11 April) has shown an encouraging trend in the activity levels of adults. Since the…

Last week saw almost 900 schoolchildren compete in the annual West Yorkshire School Games winter festival, in association with Leeds Beckett University. Schools from across…