The latest Funding Opportunities for Coaching Guide is available on the sports coach UK website. Produced by sports coach UK in partnership with the CSSN and SkillsActive, the Guide provides information on funding available in England to support coaching. Please note that applications for the Mayor's Legacy Skills Fund in London closed on 31 March 2012. References to this source of funding in the latest Funding Opportunities for Coaching Guide are, therefore, not applicable. >>

Millions of people will be able to come together to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in their local communities at one of over 2000 games being held across the UK, thanks to a £2 million Big Society fund, Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd said today. >>

County Sport Partnerships across the country have helped inspire 33,000 young people to do sport in their own time in the first six months of Sport England's Sportivate Olympic and Paralympic legacy initiative. >>

County Sports Partnerships will play a key role in helping ensure hundreds of thousands of young athletes will have the chance to come together and take part in festivals of sport after Sport England invested £4million of National Lottery funding into the organising of the multi-sport events. >>

Just three months after Sport England launched its search for 40,000 Sport Makers who will make sport happen for their friends, neighbours or colleagues, County Sports Partnerships have helped inspire 10,000 people to sign up and pledge 10 hours of their time. >>

As we enter 2012 and the latest landmark date with just 200 days to go to the 'greatest show on earth', County Sports Partnerships are playing their part in helping inspire a local legacy in every community. >>

The work of County Sports Partnerships in safeguarding children in sport was highlighted at the recent NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU) conference which celebrated its 10th anniversary of working in partnership with sport organisations to safeguard children. >>

Sports Coach UK in partnership with the County Sports Partnership Network have produced a Funding for Coaching Guide that provides details about funding available to support coaches and coaching across England. >>

County Sports Partnerships will play a key role to support England Athletics in the development of local running groups, >>

The County Sports Partnerships are delighted to be involved in leading a new national programme which will inspire people to make more sport happen in their local community. Five-time Olympic Gold medalist, Sir Steve Redgrave, this month unveiled a new way for people to become sporting heroes across the country. >>

Over 300,000 teenagers and young adults across England are to benefit from a new sports programme that aims to fulfil the legacy promise made by Seb Coe in Singapore in 2005 to ‘inspire young people to choose sport’.

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The nationwide network of County Sports Partnerships (CSPs) are committed to working with their many partners to ensure a sporting legacy is in place in every community as a result of London hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. Here we list some of the legacy activities CSPs are supporting across the country and show you how you can get involved. >>

Case studies from across the country have been published to demonstrate how the Coaching Support Networks have successfully supported coaches to gain qualifications and increased coaching numbers to boost participation and performance in sport. >>

The CSP Network is pleased to launch a new Case Study Search Tool for use by everyone working in sports development. The need for our sector to better share practice has been around for many years. Now, the need to find efficiencies, work more cost effectively, and provide evidence of impact have never been greater. This new tool has the potential to help address these, with less 'reinventing wheels', less investment in the design and development and fewer 'pilot' projects, . >>

In late February the last CSPs successfully achieved the requirements of the advanced level of the Standards for Safeguarding Children in Sport. “The fact that all CSPS have now completed the Standards process is a tremendous achievement,” said Mike Diaper, Sport England Director of Youth and Communities. “It rewards the hard work of many CSP staff and their key partners, and particularly the network of CSP safeguarding leads which have been at the forefront of this work. Congratulations to everyone involved. >>

The CSP network today welcomed the news that Hundreds of sports playing fields across the country will be protected and improved thanks to a £10 million National Lottery fund launched by Sport England and the Minister for Sport and the Olympics, Hugh Robertson MP. >>

The CSP network welcomed the announcement today that the new Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity will launch with Chartership accreditation following approval by The Royal Privy Council. >>

The County Sports Partnership Network has launched a powerful new offer for the NHS and the emerging public health service. >>

Olympic and Paralympic stakeholders have announced plans to support the mass participation legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. >>

Over the last 12 months through the County Sport Partnership Network, over 9000 young disabled people took part in the Paralympic legacy creation programme, Playground to Podium (P2P), an inspiring initiative to increase both performance and participation in disability sport across the nation. >>