| History of women’s football to be revealed and celebrated Find out more  Sheffield and Rotherham, as two of the nine UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 host cities, are taking part in a National Lottery funded project to uncover the hidden history of women’s football in a summer of celebration of the game, its players and communities.In partnership with The FA and led by Rotherham Council and Milton Keynes Council, the National Lottery funded programme aims to challenge the common perception of women’s football being ‘new’ and change the nation’s understanding of ‘the English game’. In addition to the National Lottery funding of £500,000, The FA and host cities have contributed nearly £600,000 to the project.The nine UEFA Women’s EURO host cities (Brighton & Hove, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Rotherham, Sheffield, Southampton, Trafford and Wigan & Leigh) will take part in a summer of exhibitions, memory films, oral histories and community activities. |
| This Girl Can webinar – Wednesday 26 January Join the webinar  Sport England’s marketing and insights teams will be hosting a webinar this month to look ahead to another exciting year of the campaign. The event, which is open to all partners and supporters of the campaign, will take place at 10am on Wednesday 26 January and last about an hour.The team will be sharing some of the latest research into how people are thinking and feeling about physical activity as well as how it’s being used to shape the next phase of This Girl Can. You don’t need to register for the webinar. Simply click the ‘Join the webinar’ link in this newsletter. |
| Shaping young people’s futures in Sheffield Find out more  As part of its multi-year partnership with health and wellbeing provider Westfield Health, Dame Kelly Holmes Trust has launched a series of programmes this January in Sheffield. Over 2,000 Sheffield-based young people will benefit this year, the largest number of young people the Trust will ever have worked with in a single city.Sixteen students at ten Sheffield secondary schools, who are facing challenging circumstances in their personal or school life, will be chosen to benefit from On Track To Achieve mentoring sessions delivered by Trust athlete mentors. |
| ‘Sport is special – it’s in your face’ Find out more  Sport is often forgotten in discussions of FE. But with Ofsted looking hard at ‘personal development’, the award-winning PE team at New College Pontefract appear to have backed the right horse.At the end of last year, the PE department won the ‘FE team of the year’ at the Pearson teaching awards. When I ask one staff member why they won, I’m told with typical, grinning Yorkshire self-effacement that “our grant writer is really good” – but it’s clear the team are playing themselves down.Sport here is hugely valued, in a way that FE perhaps does not always deliver on. |
| News in brief |
| UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 school resources now available The programme gives teachers across the country access to a digital pack, consisting of free, digital, cross curricular resources all themed around the Women’s EURO. Find out more… Rugby Football League launches extensive research project with LBU The Rugby Football League (RFL) is preparing to launch a three-year research project across rugby league, in collaboration with Leeds Beckett University, to quantify head impact and acceleration exposures in the sport with the aim of increasing understanding and reducing future risk. Find out more… Launching – Coach Learning Framework The insight-based Coach Learning Framework helps coaches grow and develop their coaching knowledge and their confidence to deliver great sessions. Find out more… Nominations open for Birmingham 2022 batonbearers The Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this summer is looking for 2,022 Batonbearers, each with inspiring stories, to take on the special experience of carrying the Queen’s Baton through England in summer 2022. Find out more… Living Streets’ Charles Maher Award – Walking Champion 2022 Nominees will be judged on their creativity and the level of impact they have had and the winner will be announced at the National Walking Summit on 22 March. Find out more… |
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