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History

1994: The Youth Sport Trust was established. Sir John Beckwith invested £1m each year for four years.
Developed TOP Play and TOP Sport.
Employed three area staff.
Secured BT as first sponsor and Lottery Funding.
Demand for more brought a need for an infrastructure.

1997: First 11 designated Specialist Sports College become operational. The Youth Sport Trust was appointed as a support agency to the DfES.
Rapid growth of TOP programmes – more schools, more teachers and more young people.
Sports Colleges become successful and appealing.
Needed to create a national infrastructure involving all schools.

Increased awareness of the power of sport in improving education and sporting success among young people.
Prime Minister launched the Physical Education, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) strategy.
The DfES/DCMS set a joint PSA target. By 2006, 75% of pupils had to do two hours of high-quality PE and school sport per week.
£459m new investment over three years.

Systematic roll out of PESSCL strategy.
Continued innovation, programmes include Secondary Playgrounds and TOP Activity.
2006: Dame Kelly Holmes became National School Sport Champion, a role supported by the government, the Youth Sport Trust and Norwich Union. She also launched Norwich Union Girls Active.
2006: The first UK School Games took place in Glasgow.

January: The first multi-sport National Talent Orientation Camp took place with round 100 of Britain’s most talented youngsters in five Olympic sports.
February: Sports College Conference celebrated the 10th anniversary of the first designated Sports Colleges.
April: Our Step into Sport Camp proved a huge success with 400 youngsters taking part.
June: Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell became Sky Living For Sport Ambassador and Olympic heptathlete Denise Lewis was appointed Zoneparc Sporting Ambassador.
August: The second UK School Games in Coventry saw 1300 competitors in eight sports taking part.
September: YSTdirect launched and Dame Kelly Holmes kicked off the second year of Norwich Union Girls Active.

February: The Prime Minister and Dame Kelly Holmes announced plans for a National School Sport Week in June.
May: UK School Games’ President Richard Caborn MP launched the UK School Games Champion Ambassadors programme.
August: Double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington opened the UK School Games in Bath and Bristol.
September: Our Young Ambassador programme was granted the London 2012 Inspire Mark by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG).
December: Sue Campbell CBE, Chair of the Youth Sport Trust and UK Sport, was introduced to the House of Lords as life peer Baroness Campbell of Loughborough.