News from local CSPs

Over 1,000 children compete at Wesport School Game Launch

Over a thousand school children have taken part in competitive school sport as part of the first ‘School Games’ festival in the West of England >>

‘Elite Sport Leading Elite Business’

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough County Sports Partnership, LIVING SPORT, are launching a ground-breaking new programme for business in the county. The ‘Elite Sport Leading Elite Business >>

West Yorkshire Sport host Mega Sport Makers convention

500 new recruits attend the biggest Sport Maker workshop to date in Leeds. >>

Lincolnshire Sporting Champions Launched

Lincolnshire CSP launch a new programme for schools and businesses to utilise county sports stars. >>

Strictly star supports Reactivate Bucks

Strictly Come Dancing star, and local Bucks resident, Brendan Cole is supporting the forthcoming Reactivate Give it a Go Week. >>

Bringing informal activities to life in Cornwall

Cornwall CSP this week organised a unique networking event for 22 facility providers and representatives from 13 different NGBs to establish links to increase participation >>

Women and Girls Projects

County Sport Partnerships are committed to help increase the number of women and girls who participate in sport or physical activity on a regular basis. Figures published by Sport England in December 2010 revealed the size of the gender gap in sport. At present, one in eight (2.761 million) women regularly play sport in England. Whilst this has increased significantly in the past five years, it still trails behind men’s participation, with one in five (4.176 million) taking part. Women from disadvantaged communities play even less sport, with less than one in 10 women taking part.

A number of CSPs have been involved in different projects to help promote and develop opportunities for women and girls.

Doorstep sport to create 30,000 active women
The CSP PRO-ACTIVE West London have been identified as a key delivery partner in a new national project that will get 30,000 women playing ‘doorstep sport’.

PRO ACTIVE South London LOVE2 Womens and Girls Sports and Activity Festival

PRO ACTIVE South London facilitated the festival based around three themes:

'Have a go' - aimed at women and girls who currently do not participate in any sport or physical activity
'Something Different' -aimed at those currently involved but would like to try something different
'Play Again' -aimed at people who had previously taken part, to get them participating again

Funding was offered to deliverers of sport to hold an event aimed at women and girls during LOVE2 week. These were all linked to local, regular activities promoted to participants during the festival

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