Sunnyfields Primary School in Doncaster has been accredited as a Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity by Yorkshire Sport Foundation.The accreditation has been awarded in the category of PE Lessons – one of seven categories linked t...

A Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity and School Sport, we chat to Jon Bedford from Rawmarsh Thorogate School about their success linked to active travel.

Charlotte Ellis, Ed Montague (both Yorkshire Sport Founation) chat with Kris Mackay (Founder of Growing Circles) about the YSF approach to engaging with community groups as part of the Together Fund.The Together Fund w...

The Navigating Local Systems (NLS) work began in the autumn of 2019 and sits alongside the work of Sport England's Local Delivery Pilots. This episode focuses on that work in Wakefield.NLS helps people and organisations to better unders...

As part of National School Sport Week, we speak with a primary school in Leeds who have had success and seen wider benefits from engaging in competitive table tennis.Shakespeare Primary School in Leeds competed in the national schools f...

We chat to the sixth school to be accredited as a Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity.

We turn the sportlight on ourselves, talking through our journey so far in changing the way we operate to minimise any negative impact on the climate.To read our annual climate report and access our climate policy, visit our website: htt...

Active Humber Chief Executive, David Gent joins us for the second in our Climate Series 2023.David is one of the driving forces behind the sport and physical activity sector playing its role in addressing the climate emergency, sitting ...

We speak to Richard Lindsay from Birmingham FA about their award winning 'Save Today, Play Tomorrow' programme.Find out more on the Birmingham FA website - https://bit.ly/3LbkgwE 

New Road Primary School share their story of becoming a Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity.The school was accredited in the 'Before and after school clubs' category in early 2023, with their innovative approach including 'Family...

A Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity, Springvale Primary School in Barnsley share their story with us.The school were accredited as a Centre of Excellence for their approach to before and after school clubs.We're joined by...

Birkby Infant and Nursery School are the latest Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity, and we speak to them about how they achieved the status in the category of 'Physically Active Learning'.GuestsPaula Manser - PE lead and Sen...

Yorkshire Cricket Foundation are leading the way nationally with their approach to walking cricket. We talk to the people involved to understand how they've done it and the impact it is having.Walking Cricket was developed as a new conc...

Staff from Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity, Burton Road Primary School in Barnsley, share their schools story of how they became a leading light in offering opportunities for pupils.Burton Road Primary created a competition a...

We chat to Academy at St. James in Bradford, the first Centre of Excellence for Physical Activity named by Yorkshire Sport Foundation.The Bradford-based school achieved the accreditation for 'Whole School Practice and Ethos', and 'Physi...

We chat with Rashida Salloo, founder of Ready Steady Active, a small organisation based in Kirklees, West Yorkshire. It provides community-based sports, health and physical activity opportunities for women and girls with a focus on increasing p...

To coincide with Rainbow Laces Day 2021, we discuss the first 12 months of the Empower LGBT+ project that aims to support more people from the LGBT+ community in Sheffieldto be physically active.Part one (1:27 - 22:06)The bac...

We speak to Richard Lindsay from Birmingham FA about their climate friendly 'Save Today, Play Tomorrow' programme.Richard joined us for our climate series of webinars to discuss the role of the sport and physical activity sector in addr...

We speak to West Yorkshire Active School Award 2021 winners, New Road Primary School in Halifax.Head teacher, Sharon Harwood, and sports coach, Emily Heckler talk about some of the initiatives they put in place to keep children active i...

We speak to the people behind the award winning Active Dearne walking football session, that has been one of the success stories from the first two years of the project.The episode looks at the power of trusted people in a community, an...

How do you write a physical activity strategy for an entire district? That's the question we posed two of the people involved in doing so for Sheffield, as the Move More physical activity strategy was refreshed in June 2021.Part one - 1...

We spoke to 2TshirtGang to discuss how they used money from the Tackling Inequalities Fund to support women to be active in Bradford during the Covid-19 pandemic.Part one:Anthony and Trinity from 2tshirtgang.Part two:  ...

Part two: Sporting Equals CEO, Arun Kang OBE, is one of our guests as us as we ask how Yorkshire Sport Foundation and the wider sport and activity sector can contribute to race equality. We discuss intersectionality and our guests consider what...

Part one: Sporting Equals CEO, Arun Kang OBE, is one of our guests as us as we ask how Yorkshire Sport Foundation and the wider sport and activity sector can contribute to race equality. We look at the response to the Black Lives Matters protes...

We chat with Darton Primary School in Barnsley about how they have spent the last few years challenging stereotypes through sport and activity in their school. We're joined by Totally Runable, who have worked alongside them, on a project which ...