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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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25 Nov 2021
Young people go for gold in Youth Sport Trust’s awards
Young people, schools and social action groups have been recognised for helping to change lives through sport at a charity’s special awards ceremony.
19 Nov 2021
Youth Sport Trust is finalist at The 2021 Sports Business Awards
The Youth Sport Trust has been recognised for its response to the pandemic and living out its mission at a time of greatest need for children and young people across the UK.
12 Nov 2021
Charity of the year fundraising partnership announced with hasta World
The Youth Sport Trust has announced an exciting three-year partnership with hasta World which will see the organisation raise £25,000 a year for the charity.
28 Oct 2021
Sport and activity sector responds to the Autumn Budget and 2021 Spending Review
Organisations unite in calling for long-term and ambitious new School Sport and Activity Action Plan
11 Oct 2021
Three-year trend of girls reporting same barriers to physical activity in schools
Periods, low confidence, and other people watching. New data has shown that girls are continuing to report the same barriers to physical activity in schools.
06 Oct 2021
Children feeling ‘fitter’ and ‘stronger’ as schools put physical activity at heart of learning
Children across the country have reported feeling fitter and stronger - not just physically but mentally - since returning to a more active way of learning following a year of disruption.
04 Oct 2021
Government announces £30 million for school sport
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport yesterday (3 October 2021) announced an additional £30 million per year of funding to improve and up school sport facilities in England as well as improving the teaching of Physical Education at primary school.
15 Sept 2021
Charity releases landmark research on how a generation’s engagement with PE and school sport could evolve between now and 2035
Children risk becoming increasingly disengaged from physical activity over the next decade unless more is done to champion the value of PE and school sport, especially among the most disadvantaged, a landmark research report warns.
14 Sept 2021
A collaboration that empowers children and young people to find their way to play
Playwaze and the Youth Sport Trust are teaming up to connect children and schools to the sport and activity opportunities in their local communities.
09 Sept 2021
Team GB and ParalympicsGB heroes set to visit schools to build on Tokyo inspiration
Fresh from their heroics in Tokyo, British Olympians and Paralympians are now set to lift the spirits of a generation of young people through a nationwide programme of school visits.
09 Sept 2021
Return to school 2021-22
Welcome back to the 2021/22 academic year. We hope more than anything that this year is a fresh new start for all pupils as well as the leaders, educators and all staff working within schools.
01 Sept 2021
More than £900,000 funding pledged to help children with SEND benefit from inclusive PE
Thousands of schools in England are to be supported to improve Physical Education (PE) and school sport for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).