Getting girls active: children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust and The Sweaty Betty Foundation are forming a new partnership

The School Games National Finals wrapped up on Sunday after an amazing four days of sporting action, featuring some of the most promising youngsters in the country.

The partnership aims to tackle barriers girls experience, and empower them to make positive change through participation in sport and play

Active Across Ages was a programme funded in 2019 by YST International and Sir John Beckwith Charitable Trust. During a pilot phase 10 primary, secondary and special schools worked in partnership with 10 older people’s settings including care homes, so that children and older adults could be active together.

In our most recent blog post, we hear from Emily as she shares her moving story about her Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and how this has impacted her relationship with sport and movement.

As the longer nights draw in and the temperatures drop, it’s easy for physical activity to fall to the bottom of the priority list. However, movement, sport and play are important all year round and offer additional benefits during the chillier months when it’s often easier to choose a boxset over a brisk walk.

Inaayah reflects on joining a parliamentary roundtable hosted by Rachel Taylor MP to discuss why so many teenage girls disengage from sport.

As the calendar ticks towards the New Year, much has been happening across education, physical activity and children’s health. Here are some key updates and information you might have missed over the past few weeks:

With Parliament now in recess for the summer, here are some highlights since our last advocacy update:

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.

Here you can find all of our commercially sold products and resources, including our range of specialist inclusion equipment, specifically designed to help enhance the PE and school sport experience for young people. There are also resources specifically designed to support on our range of open access programmes and targeted interventions.

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