Community and club activities for children and young people

Sport England has increased our investment in the Government’s PE and Sport Strategy for Young People to £23 million a year (that’s up by over £14 million).

This aims to give young people in England access to at least five hours of PE and sport a week.

Together with our partners at the Youth Sport Trust (YST), we have mapped out clear roles and responsibilities. YST takes responsibility for school sport, while Sport England leads on community and club sport.

We have a range of programmes including:

 

Young female judo player smiling

Sport Unlimited

Sport Unlimited is an innovative new youth sports programme which cascades funding to local communities via county sports partnerships.

Find out more about Sport Unlimited

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Club Links

We are working with 34 national governing bodies to increase the number of 5-19 year olds taking part in club sport or taking on leadership and volunteering roles within sport. We are investing £4.1m into the 34 sports to deliver by 2012-2013 and extra half million junior club participants or volunteers.

Learn more about Club Links

Young athlete

Recruit into Coaching

Recruit into Coaching aims to recruit and train 10,000 volunteer coaches and put them to work in 70 of the most deprived areas of England by 2011.

Discover more about Recruit into Coaching

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Child protection

In 2001, the Child Protection in Sport Unit was launched and jointly-funded by Sport England and the NSPCC. Since then, our world-leading achievements have been recognised by the United Nations in their global study of children. The unit’s remit is to help children play sport, stay safe, enjoy and achieve.

Find out about our work on child protection

GB wheelchair basketball star, Claire Strange

Sporting Champions

21 current and retired athlets are working with young people to inspire them to play more sport and joing sports clubs through our Sporting Champions scheme.

Get inspired by Sporting Champions

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