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02 Apr 2025
Youth Sport Trust Launches National School Sports Week 2025 Powered by Sports Direct x Under Armour
Celebrating 30 years of the Youth Sport Trust and in partnership with leading sports brands, this year’s nationwide sports campaign champions an Always Active approach to school life and hosts the UK’s biggest-ever sports day.
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18 Nov 2022
Youth Sport Trust response to the 2022 Autumn Statement
Following the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement yesterday (Thurs) Youth Sport Trust CEO Ali Oliver MBE and Youth Board Chair Lipa Nessa have issued the following response.
07 Nov 2022
Families challenged to get active during FIFA World Cup with #HalfTimeChallenge
Children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust wants to support more young people to ‘Bend it like Bale’, ‘shoot like super Jack’ and ‘back-heel like Russo’ in a drive to reduce sedentary behaviour this winter and get more families up and active whilst enjoying the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
03 Nov 2022
Dear Prime Minister... please protect our sport and play
Young Changemakers who sit on children's charity the Youth Sport Trust's Youth Board have made a rallying call to the Prime Minister ahead of the autumn budget to address a growing national crisis of young people's health and wellbeing.
26 Sept 2022
Fears young people are being ‘priced out of sport’
The Youth Sport Trust responds to the Government’s budget announcements released on Friday.
09 Sept 2022
Our charity's response to the news of the death of Her Majesty The Queen
Following the statement from Buckingham Palace on 8 September 2022 announcing the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, we join the nation, Commonwealth and those around the globe to mourn the loss of our Queen, a head of state, one of the most remarkable and significant people in global history – a true Changemaker.
05 Sept 2022
Friendships for life and memories made at UK’s biggest multi-sport competition for young people
Athletes from across the UK have made friendships for life and felt a sense of belonging at the 2022 School Games National Finals, the UK’s biggest multi-sport event for talented young athletes, between 1 and 4 September.
28 Jul 2022
Getting hearts beating for 60 active minutes a day this summer
The Commonwealth Games are here and today children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust is launching a mini campaign to support families to keep moving over the school summer holidays.
26 Jul 2022
We respond to Rishi Sunak's plans to boost children's physical activity
Youth Sport Trust welcomes the importance Mr. Sunak is placing on PE and sport.
14 Jul 2022
Children’s charity welcomes appointment of three new Board members
The Youth Sport Trust, which has its headquarters in Loughborough, has appointed Land Rover’s Global Sport and Humanitarian lead Claire Boakes, Sajid Gulzar OBE CEO of the Prince Albert Community Trust and Shweta Sharma, non-executive board member of BT Group’s Technology Advisory Board.
07 Jul 2022
Sport and recreation leaders call for radical reform to support sector's growth and development
A coalition of leading organisations across sport, recreation and physical activity has today come together for the first time to call for radical reform to support the growth and development of the sector.
25 Jun 2022
Primary PE and Sport Premium confirmed for 2022/23
The Department for Education has today (25 June) confirmed that the Primary PE and Sport Premium will continue for the next academic year (2022/23).
20 Jun 2022
On your marks, get set, go…for National School Sport Week!
Thousands of schools, young people, parents, politicians, and businesses up and down the country will this week become ‘changemakers’.