Girls in Basketball, which is organised by the Leicester-based Warriors Basketball Club, focuses on getting girls aged 13 and older from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds into basketball.
The project, which is made possible thanks to National Lottery funding, will put on a ‘festival of basketball’ this summer for more than 60 girls and provide follow-up group sessions every week to get people playing.
The power of sport
Women and girls taking part in sport this week are encouraged to promote their events on social media and show all the great activities taking place across the UK.
Get Set Girls is another organisation we’ve funded that is improving the lives of disadvantaged girls aged 15-19 in Hackney, east London.
The youth club already provides opportunities for girls to improve their confidence and gain vital life skills through personal development workshops, health programmes and careers advice.
The Girls for Fitness programme, which has just finished its 35-week course, provided eight fitness sessions per week to more than 80 girls from the Orthodox Jewish Community.
The successful scheme brought many of the benefits to physical and mental wellbeing as well as individual and community development that we mention in Towards an Active Nation.
This Girl Can returns
Raising the profile of real women doing sport and activity is one of the keys to changing behaviour – as our ground-breaking This Girl Can campaign continues to show.
The first-of-its-kind campaign, which features phenomenal women who sweat and jiggle as they exercise, returns to TV screens this week – just in time for the start of Women’s Sport Week.
