Youth Sports Trust news

Physical activity levels among children and young people have improved compared to five years ago, according to Sport England’s Active Lives Children and Young People ... More

Equality body Sporting Equals will host its third Leaderboard conference next week, where it will unveil a resource to help national governing bodies (NGB) diversify ... More

One-hundred-and-fifty girls who do not take part in regular physical activity will attend a three-day camp of sporting activities set up by the Youth Sport ... More

Special Olympics GB has partnered with Youth Sports Trust to launch football and basketball courses in 200 schools which integrate young people with intellectual disabilities. ... More

Sport England has kicked off a review of the School Games following the publication of the government’s sports strategy, and has pledged funding for School ... More

Sports equipment provider Youth Sport Direct has launched an introductory multi-sport wheelchair designed to encourage young disabled people to take part in physical activity. The ... More

A consortium headed up by the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) has bagged a £4.5m (US$6.4m, €5.9m) grant to get people active across 18 ... More

Baroness Sue Campbell, the former UK Sport chair, has been appointed to oversee the development of women’s football for the Football Association (FA). Campbell will ... More

Improvements to clubhouses, a focus on coaching and investment in artificial pitches have been highlighted as ways to improve and maintain adolescent participation in rugby. ... More

Loughborough University has taken possession of SportPark, a bespoke sports administration hub which will host a number of UK sports bodies. Designed and built ... More

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Dame Kelly Holmes have joined forces to launch the Youth Sport Trust’s first National School Sport Week that runs from ... More

Addressing a Youth Sports Trust conference in Telford yesterday, culture secretary, James Purnell, said the government wants to create a “world class school sport system, ... More

In February, a group of 45 primary school pupils took part in a Gifted and Talented Multi Skills Academy Session at Freedom Leisure’s Hailsham sports ... More

David Beckham has revealed that his inaugural Football Academy will open in summer 2005 on east London’s Greenwich Peninsula beside the Millennium Dome. The David ... More