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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…

Staff, parents, and children at Linthwaite Ardron CE (VA) Junior and Infant School, Huddersfield have been presented with the Modeshift STARS Bronze standard for their…

Sport England is embarking on a project to help clubs and other frontline sports and physical activity groups understand and use digital marketing better. The…

New insight released today reveals that over half of people say they feel less worried about doing sport and physical activity now the vaccine roll…

Yorkshire Sport Foundation is preparing to join The Daily Mile Foundation and Sport England for a mass participation event across England’s primary schools, which hopes…

A report, published by the disability charity, Sense has highlighted the key role support workers play in getting people with complex disabilities physically active. Released…

Consultation has launched today on proposals for Darnall and Attercliffe, to provide better walking and cycling routes and priority bus lanes to help improve journey…

For the first time all races at AJ Bell World Triathlon Leeds will start and finish in Roundhay Park, with all routes reaching the same…

Barnsley Council is happy to announce that Beat the Street is set to return this summer. The popular physical activity game, commissioned by Barnsley Council,…

A popular physical activity game that has been played by more than 1.2m people is coming to Rotherham. Beat the Street Rotherham is set to…

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…

Sport England in partnership with the Chief Cultural Leisure Officers Association (CLOA) has launched a new resource, ‘Navigating Local Systems’, which shares learning and practical tools from…

Sport England chief executive Tim Hollingsworth has welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement which includes plans for restarting grassroots sport and physical activity. The Prime Minister…

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…

The Department for Education has today announced an investment of £10.1 million of funding to enable schools to open their sports facilities outside of school…

On #TimeToTalk day, UK Coaching, with partners Mind, 1st4sport and Sport England, have announced they have updated their popular mental health awareness online course. Even…

Activity Alliance is urging decision makers in sport and leisure to prioritise disabled people as they strive to recover from the pandemic. The leading voice…

People from across Bradford and the surrounding areas are being encouraged to join the 20 Minute Movement to help them feel healthier. Launched by Living…

Leaders from across South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire are coming together this week as part of our ‘Leading our Active Places’ virtual conference. The four-day…

Helping grassroots sport and physical activity recover from the effects of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and investing in tackling the challenges of the next decade…

Connecting Leeds have released an animation which shows how a multi-million pound project will improve a key corridor that connects Bradford and Leeds. The main…

A primary school in Barnsley who has challenged gender stereotypes in sport are the feature of the latest episode of The YSF Podcast. Darton Primary…

The latest Active Lives Children and Young People Survey shows teenage boys were hardest hit by the pandemic but girls became more active as they…

On Monday 4 January, the Prime Minister announced a new national lockdown to counter the steep rise in coronavirus (Covid-19) infections in England. More information about…

Brookfield Junior Academy in Swinton has been recognised as the ‘National Modeshift STARS Primary School of the Year’, thanks to their commitment to sustainable and…

Just weeks after opening, the new Waverley Junior Academy is celebrating a Bronze Modeshift STARS award with over 84% of pupils choosing to walk, scoot…

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…

Universal access to accessible, affordable and sustainable travel choices will be considered by senior councillors next week. Leeds City Council’s draft ‘Connecting Leeds Transport Strategy’…

This December, Sheffield’s This Girl Can officers, Monika Katarzyte and Kelly-Anne Sharman from Manor and Castle Development Trust, invite everyone to join them in a…

Bradford Council is launching a pilot scheme designed to encourage more sustainable and healthy travel for school children. The scheme will help to improve safety…

Proposals to overhaul cycling, walking and public transport infrastructure in Sheffield have launched today as plans for a city centre scheme are shared for public…

The four physical impairment National Disability Sports Organisations (NDSOs), have released a dedicated resource to inform community members about the impairment specific traditional, online and…

Barnsley’s flagship leisure complex the Metrodome is now coal free for the first time in its history thanks to a major upgrade to its heating…

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…

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is joining two other Trust’s in England to pilot the Active Hospitals project. Following interest from over twenty NHS hospitals,…

Plans have been drawn up to change the look of Rotherham High Street through the demolition of the former Primark building. The owners of the…

Schools around Calderdale have welcomed some bright new additions this term. Ten schools in the borough have had colourful new cycle and/or scooter storage installed…

Despite the recent postponement of the Tour de Yorkshire 2020 until 2022, Welcome to Yorkshire’s much-loved annual cycling event in partnership with race organisers Amaury…

Welcome to Yorkshire and the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) have confirmed that the 2021 Tour de Yorkshire will now be postponed until 2022. The difficult…

Stocksbridge Community Leisure Centre and Oxley Park are set for £500,000 of improvements, including the creation of a new outdoor playground, when the secured funding…

Leeds City Council has unveiled its first trial active travel neighbourhoods with a range of measures that have been designed to make these residential areas…

Sheffield City Council is launching a new project, Connecting Sheffield, which will focus on encouraging active travel and supporting the shift towards sustainable transport in…

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…

We Are Undefeatable is promoting new ways to be physically active as coronavirus restrictions tighten across England again. We Are Undefeatable is encouraging people with…

Ponds Forge International Sports Centre has enjoyed a ‘hugely successful’ reopening following a six-month closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The ‘iconic’ Sheffield City Trust-operated…

JU:MP Leads is a new training and mentoring programme delivered in partnership with Join Us: Move Play, Bradford Youth Service, BYDP and Bradford Sports Development…

Angela Cooper was appointed as one of the Active Dearne Community Champions in May 2019, and she’s not taken a backwards step ever since. Instead,…

The latest Active Lives results were released this week, looking at the activity levels of adults across England. There was also a separate report that…

Black, Asian and minority ethnic people working or volunteering in community sport can feel “patronised and poorly represented” within the grassroots and community sport sector,…

Sport England has launched a new £16.5 million fund to give additional help to the sport and physical activity sector during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The Return to…

Leeds based social enterprise Sporting Heritage is celebrating receiving a funding grant as part of the government’s #HereforCulture campaign, alongside announcing Paralympian and World champion,…

Major sporting names in the city, including Sheffield FC and Sheffield Eagles, are being joined by community and league teams in making use of the…

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…

The Huddersfield Town Foundation is delighted to announce the distribution of over £13,600 to eight Kirklees community groups. To date the Foundation has raised £21,929.68…

Leeds Gorse Volleyball are celebrating after coach, Elaine Brown, was named Coach of the Year by Volleyball England. The Annual Awards is a prestigious and…

To help you inspire and motivate the people in your communities to return to play and be physically active, Sport England have produced an Autumn and…

Parents in Sport Week 2020 is taking place this week. Run by the NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU), Parents in Sport Week aims…

When Alford Gardner stepped off the Empire Windrush – a ship bringing about 500 migrants to the UK from the Caribbean – he, like his…