Children and young people

Opening Schools Facilities (OSF) is a funding programme to meet the goals of the Government’s School Sport and Activity Action Plan. The aim is to help schools to open their existing sport facilities, including school swimming pools outside of the school day for a broader range of sport and physical activity.

Funding from the Department of Education will allow schools to develop their assets, provide support for their workforce, create positive experiences for pupils and their community and create and develop connections between school and physical activity providers.

Supporting partners to use physical activity and sport with 0-5 year olds and their families, to provide the best start in life for children.

Raising awareness of the importance of physical activity in the Early Years and working with organisations and practitioners to enhance physical development of young children.

This not only enhances the chances of children being active as they get older but provides social and emotional development as well as school readiness. 

We work to connect physical activity into wider health and wellbeing agendas across the network in South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

This includes some bespoke projects/programmes as well as supporting wider outcomes such as mental wellbeing, obesity and anti-social behaviour which impact children across the districts.

It also includes connecting and providing support for organisations who may work with the most vulnerable young people in society.

Supporting colleges to develop opportunities for a wider range of students to be physically active, as well as utilising college students to inspire others to become active within their community as leaders and influencers.

Programmes have included sports leadership and ambassador training as well as influencing targeted groups of students to become more active on a regular basis on college sites across districts. 

Contact Daniel Neath for more information