After attending the Labour Party’s conference in last week, this week we headed to Manchester to join the Conservative Party for their annual get-together, with an ambition to encourage the party’s post-election policy review to embrace the potential of physical activity in childhood to transform lives.

Youth Sport Trust Girls Active 2025 Research find girls faced with multiple characteristics of inequality less active, less confident, less engaged in PE and physical activity.

90% of schools in England now offering girls equal access to football in PE lessons.

Schools can now receive external validation through Well School accreditation recognising pupil and staff wellbeing as measures of success alongside academic performance and safeguarding standards.

Over the past few months, some of the Youth Sport Trust Team Leaders have been out and about contributing to events, workshops and conversations across the country.

The Youth Sport Trust was officially founded in 1995, when Sir John Beckwith, having witnessed a street fight in his home neighbourhood of Mayfair, concluded that sport could be used as an intervention to support and develop young people and improve their life chances.

Vicci Wells, Head of Sport at the Youth Sport Trust, Trustee of a large Multi Academy, and a parent, blogs about the role schools can play to keep young people with SEND moving during the cost-of-living crisis.

Why Daily Physical Activity, Weekly PE and an Inclusive School Sport Offer Sits at the Heart of a Well School.

Hundreds of young people with SEND attended inspirational Festivals of Sport in 20 locations across the country.

Over the next few weeks, every primary school in England will receive the first instalment of a £320 million government grant, now in its seventh year, which significantly extends the resourcing for Physical Education and Sport.

A letter to the final two candidates for the Conservative Party leadership.