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Building the foundations of school football

Sports

Dan Bermingham Shaw from the Football Foundation provides a run-down on how its funding for sporting facilities works and how it can benefit schools, sport and the community

Developing minds and bodies

Sports

The Youth Sport Trust’s Director of External Relations Phil Chamberlain examines how PE and sport can improve the health, wellbeing and behaviour of young people, and outlines the positive outcomes of the Sky Sports Living for Sport programme

Examining Sport and PE provision in schools

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The Youth Sport Trust’s PE, school sport and physical activity survey shows that most schools recognise the importance of physical activity for school children and actively promote it throughout the school day, but suggests that the number of minutes spent on PE are in decline. Education Business reports

A spotlight on school sports tours

Sports

What is the value of residential sports tours and are they a factor in high achieving schools? The School Travel Forum’s Ian Pearson investigates

Sporting role models go back to school

Sports

Leading British athletes are taking up the baton of teaching children about the positive role sport can play in their lives, as this report from Sky Sports Living for Sports explains

Recognising achievement in youth sport

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20 May 2014 saw the country’s best young athletes celebrated at the fourth annual Sky Sports Living for Sports Awards. The Youth Sport Trust shares some highlights

An Olympic inspiration

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Pupils from all over the country got the chance to meet Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill at a special event designed to build young people’s confidence and life skills through sport

Inspiring the next generation of athletes

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The Youth Sport Trust helps young people identify and nurture their sporting talent. Champion Team GB hockey player Alex Danson talks about the change sport has made in her life

Curbing obesity rates with sports facilities

Sports

Britain’s alarming rates of childhood obesity can be partly attributed to a lack of quality sporting facilities. Sarah Hall of the Football Foundation outlines strategies to fight this trend

The inactivity
 crisis facing schools

Sports

Physical activity has always been considered a vital part of education, but with activity and fitness levels falling, David Stalker, ukactive’s chief executive officer,  urges schools to take a whole-day approach to getting pupils fit and active

Creating the role models of the future

Sports

The Youth Sport Trust has forged partnerships over the years to create a network of role models and mentors that believe in the power of sport to change lives, reports John Steele of the Youth Sport Trust

Football and government combine to boost sports facilities

Sports

The Premier League, The FA and the Government together with Sport England have recently announced a new fund of £102m is to be delivered, by the Football Foundation, into grassroots facilities across England over the next three years.

Why physical activity is every school’s business

Sports

Ukactive’s chief executive officer, David Stalker, looks behind two studies which show that levels of physical activity among young people are plummeting, and discusses
 the wider benefits of physical activity in schools

Community leisure in partnership with schools

Sports

In a time of budgetary constraints, how can schools still afford to improve their fitness offering and see a return on investment? Andy Barge, group manager for Forest of Dean District Council based in Coleford, Gloucestershire explains how he helped to support local schools Wyedean and Five Acres do this

The foundation for improving sport facilities

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The Football Foundation is determined that schools have the chance to love the beautiful game even more by offering grants to create sporting opportunities and build community spirit

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