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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…

Sheffield schools dominated the medals at the annual South Yorkshire School Games winter festival last Friday (22 March). Schools from the district won 25 of…

Paralympic champion, Hannah Cockroft MBE, was among those celebrating the success of a Comic Relief funded project in Leeds last week. The five-time Paralympic gold…

Yorkshire Sport Foundation Chief Executive, Nigel Harrison, has reacted to the first annual survey into attitudes of children and young people to exercise and sport….

Women who are part of a Comic Relief funded project have come together to raise money for the charity as part of Red Nose Day…

As the network of County Sports Partnerships gather in Nottingham today for their annual Convention, they have announced the launch of a new brand name…

Hit Children’s Fitness Initiative Receives £1.5 Million Boost in biggest step taken to reach all schools in England Sport England has today committed £1.5 million…

Yorkshire Sport Foundation has been successful in a bid for National Lottery funding to help people in South Yorkshire on a low income become active….

Yorkshire Sport Foundation are pleased to welcome Sam Keighley to the team as Strategic Director. Sam will be working with partners across all sectors in…

Schools from Sheffield dominated the medal table at the South Yorkshire School Games summer festival on Tuesday. Schools from the district won 25 of the…

Schools from Kirklees topped the medal table at the West Yorkshire School Games summer festival, in association with Leeds Beckett University.  Many schools from across the district competed, claiming 14 medals…

The great work Active Burngreave does to create a real change in a Sheffield town has made the news for all the right reasons. =================== Somali mothers…

Schools from Sheffield topped the medal table at the South Yorkshire School Games winter festival this week. Schools from the district claimed 22 medals from…

Good luck to everyone taking park at Cannon Hall today. The route has been changed in light of the ground conditions and the event is going…

Calderdale continued their oustanding run in Panathlon competitions by winning their fourth consecutive West Yorkshire Panathlon Challenge. Students with disabilities and special needs from Brooksbank…

School pupils from across West Yorkshire competed in the West Yorkshire School Games summer festival last week. Almost 1,200 pupils competed across 11 different sports at…

More than 1,200 school pupils from across South Yorkshire competed in School Games summer festival on Wednesday. Pupils competed in nine different sports, with Sheffield…

Yorkshire Sport Foundation has teamed up with one of the UK’s biggest charity partnerships to promote their Mums’ Team project which aims to get more…

An endurance athlete running from Manchester will pass on a baton to a Holmfirth cycling coach at Holme Moss as part of an awareness campaign…

Olympic medallist Bryony Page was on hand to inspire almost 2,000 young people at the South Yorkshire School Games winter festival this week. The Rio…

Barnsley College were crowned South Yorkshire College Games Champions on Tuesday as they came out on top at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield….