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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…
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…
Whether it be skateboarding sessions on Facebook live, or using activity packs delivered to their door, people have been finding new and innovative ways to…
Leaders from more than one hundred sport and physical activity bodies have sent a letter to the Prime Minister urging him to ringfence funding for…
Episode eight of The YSF Podcast, released today, includes a conversation with Sue Wilkinson MBE, Chief Executive of the Association for Physical Education (AfPE). With…
A new way of getting children to move more at school has started to see results in schools in Bradford. The Bradford Institute for Health…
Activity Alliance is excited to reveal the new updated eLearning course, Delivering an excellent service for disabled customers. With refreshed content, the online module sets…
The safe reopening of Calderdale Council’s leisure facilities is continuing, with North Bridge Leisure Centre in Halifax due to reopen on Wednesday 14 October 2020….
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…
“When I first got the job as Community Champion, if someone said to me that in 12 months I’d be able to run 5k, I’d…
The first Great British Week of Sport brings together a range of activities and sports sessions between Saturday 19 and Sunday 27 September to celebrate the…
In the underprivileged Sheffield area of Burngreave, young men and women wearing distinctive blue, red, grey and black t-shirts are recognised on every street corner….
UK Coaching Week has returned for 2020. The awareness campaign – which empowers athletes, coaches and the public to celebrate great coaching – will centre…
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…
A new state-of-the-art gym at a popular south Leeds leisure centre has officially opened this month. Equipment on offer at the new gym in Middleton…
Commuters in Leeds can now borrow an electric bike free of charge for up to two weeks as part of a new council initiative to…
A Bradford Council scheme to tackle holiday hunger has seen thousands of disadvantaged children from across Bradford District enjoy free meals and activities during the…
On behalf of the Active in Barnsley Partnership, Barnsley Council launched the ‘What’s Your Move’ campaign on Friday 1 May, to encourage residents to move more and…
Starting today (Monday 7 September), eight new School Streets pilots begin at primary schools across Leeds. Beecroft Primary School, Kirkstall; Chapel Allerton Primary School, Chapel…
Calderdale Council is planning the safe, phased reopening of its sports and leisure facilities. The health of customers, staff and the whole community remains the…
As the Data and Insight Support Officer and an integral member of the Data and Insight team you will assist with the data collection, processing…
Barnsley Healthy Holidays has had another successful year as the 2020 activity programme draws to an end. The council’s Area Teams have been working with partners…
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….
A new pop-up bike hub has opened in Leeds Kirkgate Market to support more people accessing the city centre by bike. The new pop-up hub…
Public leisure facilities in Sheffield will start to welcome customers back through their doors as Sheffield City Council has approved a support package to enable…
Sport pitches at Marley Activities and Coaching Centre in Bradford are set to be transformed as the first phase of improvements are due to start…
Nearly £7million across four years has been awarded to further the work of Doncaster Council’s ‘Get Doncaster Moving’ approach, which aims to tackle inequalities by…
Sheffield FC is to coach refugee youngsters for matches against teams run by Leeds United, AS Roma and K.A.S Eupen which could take place in…
COVID-19 health messages are on the move in Calderdale, with mobile billboards going right into the heart of our communities to share important advice. Teams…
The report: examines health benefits of living in greener communities highlights inequalities makes recommendations to help LAs, policymakers & developers provide equitable greenspace Read it…
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