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Family. Friends. Community. If you asked someone not involved in a team sport for three words to describe what they thought team sport was all…

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…

Tim Howells, Health and Wellbeing Support Manager for Public Health England (Yorkshire and the Humber) kicks off our week looking at the impact of walking sport,…

Totally Runable co-founder, Natalie Jackson, will run 100 miles across Yorkshire next week to raise awareness of the gender sport gap in primary schools, and raise…

Nobody in the country escaped a break to their normal routine when the Covid-19 pandemic took hold during the spring of 2020.  David Stevenson’s normal…

A few weeks ago, we announced the nine winners of our Active School Awards 2021. The Active School Awards recognised how schools across South Yorkshire…

A few weeks ago, we announced the nine winners of our Active School Awards 2021. The Active School Awards recognised how schools across South Yorkshire…

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…

The role of Stocksbridge Leisure Centre in its community could have been very different during lockdown had it not been for the tackling inequalities funding…

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…

The refreshed Move More physical activity for Sheffield is the topic for discussion on the latest episode of The YSF Podcast. We were joined by…

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…

Sheffield City Council Leader Cllr Terry Fox and Deputy Leader Cllr Julie Grocutt made their first visit to the Olympic Legacy Park last week to…

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 Association for Physical Education (afPE) has today launched a report from its Education Taskforce which issues a clear call to government to put physical…

Bradford-based 2tshirtgang is the feature of the latest episode of The YSF Podcast. The functional fitness, health and well-being organisation are one of those to…

Sport England has collaborated with CIMSPA to produce a Digital Marketing Hub that aims to fill a gap in the digital skills of the sport…

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…

Welcome to Yorkshire and Yorkshire Cancer Research launched the Tour de Walkshire on 1st May with a month-long £50,000 fundraising target… with time to spare…

The Chief Executive of the Active Partnerships Network, Lee Mason, has decided to leave the national representative body at the end of June after 10…

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…

People across Leeds are being asked to make one small change to a weekly journey by leaving the car at home and choosing to walk,…

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…

The Active in Barnsley partnership, of which we are a member, has launched a brand-new website, where people in Barnsley can find information about being active, useful links for moving…

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…

Calderdale residents are being asked to share their views on being active and the opportunities available to take part in physical activity in their local…

The Ann Craft Trust is launching a campaign for sport & activity organisations to create safer cultures,  asking organisations to commit to reviewing and improving their…

The Rugby League World Cup team have put together a great opportunity for schools to get involved in a competition that showcases their town or…

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…

Supporting the sport and physical activity sector to recover and rebuild are among key priorities for the next 12 months. The one-year action plan will help…

Just over 7 in 10 disabled people (72%) agree that the coronavirus pandemic has made sport and physical activity less fair for disabled people. This…

Learn to be quick, be smart and restart a heart Free life-saving digital learning toolkit to help people know what to do in the event…

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…

Venues, especially community venues can still lack a bit of confidence to re-open, so its worth sharing EMD UK’s guidance for instructors and venues with…

A new pioneering approach looks to help cancer patients prepare for and respond to treatment by offering them a combination of exercise, nutrition and psychological…

The official Team GB kit for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been announced. Uniting hundreds of athletes from dozens of sports, the adidas kit…

Mind have launching a new Mental Health and Physical Activity Tooklkit! The Toolkit, consisting of 10 guides, aims to help sport, physical activity and mental…

The Department for Education invested £1.6m into the Active Partnership Network in 2019-2020 as a test and learn project to better understand the barriers and…

The impact of the Covid pandemic on activity levels in South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire has been highlighted in the latest Active Lives figures, released…

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 West Yorkshire School Games is excited to have partnered with Skipping School to bring a new virtual skipping programme to schools across the county….

It’s time for a new challenge, as Welcome to Yorkshire and Yorkshire Cancer Research team up to bring you the Tour de Walkshire. To walk,…

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….

A new Active Recovery Hub is launching to provide schools, local authorities and families with easy access to free resources to get children moving before,…

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…

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…

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…