The YSF Blog

Across South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, This Girl Can week is taking place. Our Events and Programmes Manager, Emma Binnersley, looks at how and why…

For the last year, Charlotte Ellis has been the Development Officer for Wakefield, and is now providing maternity cover for one of our Development Managers….

In social prescribing week, we spoke to Darren Huart from our Children and Young People team about our involvement in the Safety Nets project. Safety…

In February 2020, the opportunity came for us here at Yorkshire Sport Foundation to launch the first sport apprenticeship scheme across Leeds. At the end…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Debra Cummins, our Development Manager for Children and Young People, asks how the sector can come together to support the ‘hidden group’ of young people…

On International Day of People with Disabilities, YSF Media Manager, Andy Morgan blogs about how communication can play its part in getting people more active….

Every year I look forward to what might be happening as part of International Day of People with Disabilities, writes James Brown, Yorkshire Sport Foundation…

As part of Rainbow Laces week, we invited Verity Smith from Yorkshire MESMAC to write a guest blog on how the sport sector can become…

It’s now over a couple of years since the most recent strategies from the government and Sport England about how to get people more active….

YSF are proud to and sign the  #ActiveDigital pledge. This call from Sport England and DCMS for providers to commit to opening up their data is…

If we don’t talk about physical activity, we may as well be saying ‘inactivity is ok’, James Brown, Director of Local Support and Partnerships writes. A…