With space at a premium, making the most of any sports facility is essential. The Sports and Play Construction Association explain how multi-use game areas can meet the demand for versatile spaces, where multiple pitches are not necessarily available
The Youth Sport Trust provides an update on the Living for Sport programme, as Dean Watson of Rastrick High School details the benefits it had on the school and its students
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
